Paul Cornell discusses Canon \/ Canonicity in Doctor Who… \u00c2\u00a0How the new TV series goes out of it’s way to not shut the door on the previous novels, TV series episodes, etc in regards to Canon discussions…<\/p>\n
Back in the mists of time, the fans of Sherlock Holmes thought it would be funny to refer to those stories about Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as being \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpart of the Canon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. They were thinking of the books that had been officially declared to be part of the Bible. They thereby confused two things, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their fault we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been in a linguistic twist about this ever since. The canon they referred to was decreed by authority, the theological authority of a group of high clerics concerning how much truth and how much fan fiction was contained in a particular proto-Gospel. The Canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, on the other hand, wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decided by authority after the fact, but by authorial authority. If Conan Doyle wrote it, it was in. If he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, it was out. Sherlock Holmes fans could have no debates about what was and wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccanonical\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWritten by Conan Doyle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was what their new version of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccanonical\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 meant.<\/p>\n
That new definition of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccanon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 works fine if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with works by one author. It works not at all in any other frame of reference. Doctor Who was created by many people, over a long period of time, and they did not cooperate. There is no authorial authority, and, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get to in a moment, no council of Bishops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Read the rest of the article at\u00c2\u00a0PaulCornell.com: Canonicity in Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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