User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1827503-20161209053902

Shambala108 wrote: Bwburke94 wrote: The main difference between my proposal and Tangerineduel/Shambala108's proposal is that I count The End of Time as two separate episodes, whereas Tangerineduel/Shambala108 combine them into one story. User:Tangerineduel and I don't combine them into one story. The wiki has already decided they're one story, because they are on one page, just like all (but one) of the SJA stories.

How can we justify calling (for example) The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords a two-parter, but keep them on separate pages, when both parts of the two-parter The End of Time are on the same page? I'm not defining "story" at all. My proposal is that we number BBC Wales Doctor Who by episode, rather than by story. There's a simple reason for that.


 * 1. The "building block", so to speak, of BBC Wales Doctor Who is the episode. This is in contrast to 1963-89 Doctor Who, where the "building block" was the serial.


 * 2. If we judge The End of Time to be a singular 135-minute story, it can and will be inferred that we consider Aliens of London and World War Three (etc) to be two standalone episodes. It's fairly clear to all involved that they were produced as one story - even if some other cases like Utopia and Face the Raven might not have been.


 * 3. This discussion, after all is said and done, is about numbering. I'll counter your argument: how can we justify numbering The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords as BBC Wales #40/#41 but The End of Time as BBC Wales #60?