You only have to read two!
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But I am bad at not doing things in order. I will start at the first one 
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I wonder why animated reconstructions don’t seem to be considered seperately in the character tracker, when novelizations are? I’m some way through Season 5 of Troughton, but the Troughton tracker has me at only five stories completed - I should be at 11 for TV alone! (Asked with curiosity, not entitlement 
).
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We seprrate adaptation and different versions.
Adaptation - Is when a story is adapted to a different media like a book based on a TV story. They can often differ a bit from the source material.
Different version - Same story but in different media. For examples animation or telesnaps of a missing episode or an audiobook to a book. The story is more or less unchanged.
Adaptations can be different enough to be a separate thing on the tracker. Different versions are more or less the same. Therefore the tracker only counts one to make the story complete
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I believe animated reconstructions are counted as ‘variations’, but I’m not sure why those don’t show up on the tracker (unless you’ve completed another version of the story).
I’ll tag @shauny to see what he says.
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God job!
I thought that you had already done that . What story was your last one?
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I would have completed them ages ago if it wasn’t for Eden Rebellion being a painfully boring read.
Finished the book today, so it feels like a great weight of lf my shoulders
Unfortunately, I have no Who books left on my shelf that I haven’t read yet…
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Yeah, it’s pretty much because we don’t want to force someone to watch every single version of a missing story to 100% a Doctor. So one can pick a preferred version - telesnap, animation, or something else - and still count the story as fully completed.
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If you’ve watched 11 different TV stories in whatever form it should count towards the tracker. Paging @shauny.
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@MrColdStream is right (not @deltaandthebannermen 
) if I’ve understood correctly…
In order to 100% a character you have to complete every story with them in, but things like animated reconstructions are not considered separate stories but variations of the same story!
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So why did I waste all that time sorting out the animations for you… 
I see what people are saying now. That’s what happens when you try to follow a conversation whilst simultaneously trying to do your job…
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That’ll teach you for trying to do a job…
This place is more important!!! 
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But what about the fact that animations, when watched alone, do not count towards the tracker? I’m fairly sure that my Troughton tracker is also undercounting because it does not count the animations that I have seen.
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Hmm it should do! Perhaps there is a bug…
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Yeah, this was my (gentle) frustration - perfectly understand stories counting once, but the animations I have watched instead of the originals (which I of course can’t watch) don’t seem to contribute to my total, so in practice I would have to log stories that I haven’t watched for it to be accurate.
And it’s inconsistent, because the novelizations appear to be counted seperately, at least in the companion tracker (case in point: I’m said to have completed 3/6 Rose Noble stories, despite two of them being Target novels); again, not a huge problem persay, but a little confusing, that’s all. 
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The animations should count towards your total. That’s what we’re saying. Variations are just the same thing in a different form as oppose to adaptations (such as the novelisations or colourised/edited versions) which add or take stuff away.
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Philosophy of variations aside (I feel like recent animations vary enough such as to count as different in the way that novelizations do, but that’s not a hill I’d die on), I’ve had a thought re: @DontBlink’s suggestion - could it be because I’ve marked the original serials as “skipped” whenever I watched the animations?
If so, then I feel like having a “watched” variation should take priority in the tracker over a “skipped” one. If that makes any sense.
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Skipped isn’t supposed to affect your tracker either.
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I’ll look into this when I can!
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