PS Audios Continuity Conundrums

[Rob McCow]

With over twenty audio plays written by a dozen writers, there are bound to be a few continuity 'issues' that could do with resolving. So the idea with this thread is for any Continuity Queries to be raised and we can all have a go at providing the answer!

This is not for pointing out mistakes as such. There are no mistakes, merely events and circumstances that perhaps require a little more explanation than a tightly plotted and taut episodic drama might allow.

So in that spirit, are there any continuity queries? Or is everything perfectly tied up?!

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

So what did happen to Kestero for Scott to end up reunited with Vera (presumably back on Gidi)?
I'm assuming Craig Christmas was left with his grandfather on Tinsel.

[brandynigma]

How can Ed's Next Universe scenes be set DURING Once Upon a Time Lord?

[Si Hunt]

How can Ed's Next Universe scenes be set DURING Once Upon a Time Lord?

Lol.

Si.

[SiHart]

You can tie yourself in knots trying to work out these things. Best thing is not to worry too much about it!

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

That's true. Although I have a lot of fun when I'm bored trying to figure out solutions for things.

IIRC it was never explained how Ed ended up on his own in the world of the Once Upon A Time book but it was implied that he'd been there for some time so it's just possible that the CWAS dropped him off there (unlikely as it may sound) to wait for his version of the Doctor to turn up (which he eventually did several months later at the end of OUATL Part One).

Less face it, it makes slightly more sense than Mel leaving Gallifrey with an earlier version of her Doctor at the end of Trial which they've had to invent a convoluted explanation for to allow for all the stories featuring Evelyn, Charley and now Flip.

[SiHart]

I think that as long as the big details are correct the small stuff doesn't matter quite so much. It's much more fun for the listener to try and piece it together, as Richard is doing, than to make certain every little thing is explained.

That said we narrowly avoided a HUGE blunder in The Next Universe, when one of us realised that the wrong version of the Doctor was being sent off into the Time Well. We'd have had a hard time explaining that one away without a great deal of difficulty!

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

At least Gene Bradley gives an explanation of why he's alive in The Next Universe seeing as he doesn't appear to survive to the end of Time Bees!

[brandynigma]

At least Gene Bradley gives an explanation of why he's alive in The Next Universe seeing as he doesn't appear to survive to the end of Time Bees!

I like to think he was just hamming up his death scene in Time Bees!

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

I like to think he was just hamming up his death scene in Time Bees!

Hamming up? Gene?

Surely not!

[brandynigma]

Hamming up? Gene?

Surely not!

His Hamlet was superlative, but his focus on the first syllable was somewhat worrying.