User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-121.45.54.78-20130925110520/@comment-6032121-20200602014942

Well, stories-within-stories per se, and "flashbacks in real time" like the Candy thought experiment, are really two slightly different points? But thank you for the quick answer! I think we're generally on the same wavelength there.

On to discussing other cases… I'm adamant that 4.2 shouldn't allow the later, unrelated story to overwrite the original. Just like we should treat prose with the respect it deserves in regards to it not doing things like TV would, equally, we should recognise that TV doesn't get to have omniscient third-person narrators to confirm everyone's identities in the absolute every five minutes, and this shouldn't matter.

When a TV story features a character who looks like Romana II, is credited as such, and is not hinted to be anything else in any other story from its era or writers, then, I'd argue, this is equivalent to when the omniscient third-person narrator of a novel calls the character "Romana II" in the narration. What we have here is a case of conflicting accounts — IMO Destiny can and should be cited for "Romana II did X, Y and Z". You can then introduce the short story with "According to another account, though a woman resembling Romana II did share this adventure with the Doctor, she was actually the TARDIS…".