From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-12-05 18:18:02 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
   > > Your Name wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > The movies with Peter Cushing and Paul McGann.   
   > >   
   > > No, I am not having that. If the TVM was only a spin-off   
   > > that would  mean the Seventh Doctor didn't die... so for   
   > > the sanity of fandom the  TVM has to be proper 'Who' so   
   > > that the "bang-bang you're dead" scene  counts.   
   >   
   > Whether they are included as "canon" or not doesn't change   
   > the fact that they are technically spin-offs - they are not   
   > episodes of the actual TV series, hence spin-off.   
      
   Technically the TVM was supposed to be a 90 minute pilot for a   
   planned [US produced] TV series, as opposed to being the stand   
   alone one-off movie that it has become. (We all know the story   
   of how that went down with Fox.) But yeah, the TVM is both a   
   spin-off and continuation of the original British TV series.   
      
   The fact the TVM did everyone a favour and ended the Seventh   
   Doctor's era means it keeps its place in my head canon! :-)   
      
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