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Saints'Hoodie wrote: OttselSpy25 wrote: Furthermore it continuing from the last story does not qualify it as part of a multi-part story. But...what? If it follows up pretty much directly where the last episode left of, surely that qualifies it for being a multi-part story.

The way I took Ottsel's post is pointing out that we haven't and currently do not take that view across the board. At present, we have The Almost People ending with a TBC but we do not count it as a three-parter with A Good Man Goes to War. Strangely we do count AGMGTW as a two-parter with LKH even though they are not connected by a TBC. Then we have stories like The Name of the Doctor and The Girl Who Died which end with TBCs, but the stories act as standalones, having nothing except the reoccurrence of a character between them. Since next week's episode is still considered a spoiler, we can't say what direction it will take despite FtR ending with a TBC. Like I've said many times, TBCs have been randomly applied across 2005+ DW.