Also, maybe characters get required and recommended stories, as well as a preferred watch order?
(And suggested → recommended might be better, terminology-wise.)
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That’s actually quite a good idea. Narrows down the options.
Can anyone think of any stories that have prerequisites from totally different sets?
Maybe some of the Bernice Summerfield stuff, I don’t know.
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Sometimes books and audios are sequels to TV stories, those might count. The Final Beginning, from the Beyond War Games set, for example, probably has The War Games as a prerequisite
That raises another question, how do story variations interact with this? In this specific instance, The War Games in Colour explicitly contradicts any of the Beyond War Games stuff
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Kinda seems to me like a set of stuff that expands on the War Games should probably have the War Games included in the set…
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Hmm but I don’t want to create sets just for stories that are related, that would be a lot of work and not much value really. Maybe something for members to create their own lists later.
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I’ll come back to this properly later (trying to help my daughter with some homework) but my first thought on ‘enhancements’ is that we already sort of have this with the related stories bit. Does that do the same job? Is prerequisites going to replace related stories?
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It could do. Depends if it does the same function?
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It sort of does and doesn’t. Tropes and characters also cross over a bit in terms of relating stories to each other.
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Unfortunately I think that will quickly get tricky with audios being in different sets - a few examples off the top of my head are:
- Counter Measures s4 which I would say you ideally need MR story The Assassination Games first; and really doe CM technically need Remembrance too?
- Graceless kind of needs the MR Key2Time audios. But does K2T need the TV Key to Time arc to make sense?
- Technically Erasure - a short trip - makes best sense with the rest of Gallifrey but I suppose you could listen in isolation and it make sense
- The same with Vienna - does she need her MR introduction before her spinoff?
A little I think this also comes down to ‘define prerequisite’ which is a hard question with something like DW.
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There are a lot of Lethbridge-Stewart novels which base their books around TV stories - Horror of Fang Rock, The Dominators.
Kaldor City has obvious ties to The Robots of Death and less obvious ties to something else[1]
Blakes 7, obvs - actually it’s a different Who story ↩︎
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In conclusion, there are a lot of stories in the spin off ranges which have prerequisites in the TV show so a ‘put them in a set’ doesn’t really work, I don’t think. You had to make a Peladon set which crossed across TV, audio and book and some of those are prerequistes for each other.
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Yeah I was thinking the “same set” rule wouldn’t work but couldn’t think of examples. There are lots!
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This seems like a really neat potential feature (I’ve been wanting to get into more EU stuff, but it can be overwhelming at times)!
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I just try to remind myself it’s a time traveling show so it can’t hurt much if I do it out of order 
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True. I watched NuWho mostly out of order when I was a kid (I have no idea why), and I still understood most of it.
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