From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Blueshirt  wrote:   
   >Your Name wrote:   
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   >> 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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