Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1827503-20170610011843

31.49.2.154 wrote: Amorkuz wrote: I will be blunt. I will not support any policy that takes into account any specifics of Series 10. The purpose of the policy being discussed is to have a precise and faithful definition of multi-parters that will be applied to all episodes of BBC Wales series past, present and future. If each new series requires new rules, it means that the proposed policy does not capture the essence of what a multi-parter is. In this case, Shambala's suggestion becomes the only viable one. I really don't want to go with that suggestion. It just seems... too much. Are we actually going to claim that, say, The Sontaran Stratagem is a completely different story to The Poison Sky. And The Impossible Astronaut to Day of the Moon? What about Invasion, part one of Invasion of the dinosaurs? What about Hartnell episodes? Shambala's proposal is not intended to apply to anything pre-2005, but the presence of The End of Time does affect the situation.

If TEoT is counted as one story, then we are effectively saying that TSS/TPS and TIA/DotM among others are not one story. I have been advocating for counting the BBC Wales era by episode for exactly this reason – the result would be the same as Shambala's proposal, but with The End of Time counted as two episodes.

This would also solve the "controversy" problem brought up by CzechOut, because numbering by episode (starting at #1 for Rose) would be unambigously factual information.