User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Wikia Archives/@comment-216.165.251.187-20150920164837/@comment-1783865-20150920170718

I totally understand what you're getting at, and honestly I've never really understood this either. But I just go with and accept it as it is. In fact I've never really seen the specials as part of the specific Series' But rather a connecting episode between them.