User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Wikia Archives/@comment-216.165.251.187-20150920164837

Hey All,

Never really posted on the site before, though I've often referenced it. I was looking at the page for Series 9 and noticed it had "Last Christmas" marked as part of Series 9 instead of Series 8. This seemed strange for me, as the plot of the episode was dealing with fallout from the Series 8 finale. Also, the Christmas Specials under Moffat tend to have more to do with the preceding series, rather than the following series (a trend that started with Russell T. Davies' and David Tennant's final series, and continur=ed through the 2009 specials).

Thematically, "A Christmas Carol" matches Series 5 more than Series 6; "The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe" ties up the plot threads of series 6; "The Snowmen" is obviously part of Series 7, and "The Time of the Doctor" wraps up the remaining threads left from Smith's tenure.

I understand that some of this organization is based on DVD/BluRay releases... but surely the story is more important than marketing? Could a note at least be added for people who come to this site for story and continuity questions? Each series of Doctor Who has had a series-long arc, and these Christmas specials tie into those arcs, and if you treat episodes in a series as chapters in a book, it wouldn't make sense for Series 7 to have two chapters in a row about the Doctor reconciling with the Ponds, and Last Christmas feels so much like a conclusion rather than a prologue...