From: "Una McCormack" una@qresearch.org.uk To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: canon Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:20:03 +0100

Fiona wrote:

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I'm still interested to know what was said to make them canon, other

than

...

their being made by the BBC (see above for why this need not count).

IIRC, it was more to do with them being *transmitted* by the BBC (hence my

query

about the bit in the transmission in 'Warlord' where the sound went down).

My Lenny Henry/Doctor Who counterargument still stands though-- I think that DWM once had a go at arguing for the canonicity of the spoofs and sendups, but it rapidly degenerated into spoof itself (although this wasn't that unusual for the editorial team of the time).

I honestly find it very hard to believe that people would think that two minutes of Warlord were not canon simply because the sound went down, and that the studio sounds accidentally heard during transmission now *are* canon (that well-known B7 villainess, Ethyl the Tea Lady :)... )... but you were there, and I wasn't...

Hang on, though. During "Lost in Space," a portion of "Logic of Empire" was transmitted over the BBC. So therefore, Logic of Empire (or parts of it at least) are now canon! Great! That's more like it!

'The Curse of Fatal Death' *is* canon.

Is not <pouts> :)! Although it *would* be awfully nice to see the Doctor being played by Joanna Lumley sometime... n.t.m. Richard E. Grant... and Rowan Atkinson...

Fiona

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