From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: jphalt@aol.com
Subject: Re: jphalt's Doctor Who reviews

On Jul 21, 11:39 pm, "Tahiri"  wrote:
> > I wonder if the writer and producer of the "New Who" story set in the
> > same time and place were aware of this story. If so, they clearly
> > weren't worried about the Tenth Doctor running into the Seventh! :)
> > --
> > John Hall
>
> Very good point, the timeline seriously overlaps. However the Big Finish
> audios are probably not very well known among the general public (I have
> never seen them for sale in shops) so they might not have worried even if
> they had known about it. I suppose you could always make out that one of the
> stories happened in an alternate reality.

Well, I don't see any conflict between the two stories.  The 7th
Doctor and Mel have an adventure involving one set of guest characters
in one part of the city.  A city's a big enough place that the 10th
Doctor and Donna could simply be having another adventure elsewhere in
town without the two sets of characters ever running into each other.

After all, it's not like that's ever been a problem with having the
various Doctors in the same time period in London.

As for the two stories?  They're nothing alike.  One is a pure
historical, with the conflict coming from the conflicting agendas of
different people whose agendas are based entirely on their (fairly
well-researched) backgrounds.  The other is a sci-fi alien invasion
story that happens to be set against Pompeii.  I prefer "The Fires of
Vulcan" by a considerable margin, but that likely has a lot to do with
my personal preferences - I loved the pure historicals of 1960's, and
felt it was a great shame that the show stopped doing them so early in
its run.

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