User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-88790-20140103140139/@comment-88790-20140105151044

Damn, should've created the page yesterday!

I think on the page it will explain the differences between the Trial and the stories and why there's a distinction.

But let me ask / propose a radical side step. With Trial the trial elements frame the first 3 stories.

Those stories essentially exist on their own, with the Trial pieces being told around them. We could cover the Trial elements on the Trial page and link back off to Mysterious Planet/Mindwarp/Vervoids/Ultimate Foe from that page. As the Trial is basically its own story with those three as evidence.

I only propose this as, if you're concerned about people citing Trial as one big thing...maybe they should. If we're imposing an unofficial name on these stories why not treat them as they are in the stories, as elements of the trial.

The Trial is one story with all of it played out in the Trial room. Mysterious Planet/Mindwarp/Vervoids/Ultimate Foe are separate elements of that story. Admittedly if you just watched the trial scenes it's a story where the Doctor calls the Valeyard names and they watch a bit of TV, but that's basically how any clip show works, it's just that this clip show is of stuff that hadn't been seen before.

This is why I used 1001 Nights (audio anthology) as my example above, because it too uses a framing narrative with stories being told leading from it, exactly like Trial. It has an anthology page and a story page for the framing narrative.