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- From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
- Subject: Re: books as canon?
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:12:03 GMT
- References: <13554@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.191534.29873@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.191534.29873@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- >In <13554@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L) writes:
- >>(at least by the time of "Nightshade") and she is a strong, admirable
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- >The time of what? Was this a broadcast episode? If not, I scarcely think
- >you can cite it as furthering characterization.
-
- Well... the novels have gained quite a bit of credibility in recent years,
- and since (at the moment) they're the only source of new Who, AND they're
- BBC-official, I really can't see why not.
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- As a matter of fact, even the writers have cited the novels. For those
- who didn't know... Manisha, Ace's friend, was created for the Remembrance
- of the Daleks novel. Marc Platt thought it was a wonderful idea and wrote
- her into the script for "Ghost Light".
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- Of course, I'm slightly biased in favor of accepting the novels, since
- they've done such a great job on expanding and deepening Ace's character-
- ization...
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