Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26469787-20150726050336/@comment-24451551-20150805210751

With all due respect, CzechOut, it seems to me that you are trying to have it both ways. Ace acquiring Flowerchild's earring in Greatest Show is in-universe information. Her rucksack being destoryed in Silver Nemesis is in-universe information. The production team signing off on the broadcast order is out-of-universe information.

What in-universe evidence is there for your statement that "we're meant to believe the stories happened in" broadcast order? That certainly isn't stipulated in the show. On the new series there are a number of events that occur chronologically in a different order than the airing of the episodes in which they occur. You wouldn't say it's simply a continuity error that River Song is alive in Series 5 when she died in Series 4. Would you say it's a continuity error that Rory leaves his phone in Henry VIII's bedroom in "The Power Of Three" after being said to have done so in the previous episode "A Town Called Mercy"?