User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160909213807/@comment-26845762-20160914010000

Look at all those still images from Unnatural Selection.

Oh, I've never noticed that barn! Thanks for pointing it out, but I'm sorry to say that my answer is no. I would not say that memories are in-universe still images. The portrait of the Fourth Doctor and Romana II in The Arts in Space is a still image because that's what portraits are. The memories of the Eighth and War Doctor's in Weapons of Past Destruction... how do we know that's a still image?

Meanwhile, look at the Doctor's memories seen in The First. They could be moving.

We rarely see a character's memories on TV and when we do it's usually with archive footage. In comics, we see memories much more often and when we do it's almost always new artwork. Even if the artist did the artwork for free, it is still new content and comparable to a newly filmed flashback.

Let's say in a hypothetical TV episode, there's a scene where the Doctor is mentally attacked and newly shot footage of Paul Mcgann and John Hurt briefly fades into the screen. By the rules of the TV discussion, this would count as a new appearance for the Eighth and War Doctors. In Weapons of Past Destruction, this is exactly what happens, the Doctor is attacked and we see a never-before-seen image of 8 and War.

On the other hand, look at the flashback to Weapons of Past Destruction in Hacked. It just reuses the same artwork. The flashback adds nothing to the original material, so I would say that no Fluren's World does not appear in Hacked, even though we can see it in the flashback.