Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1293767-20151112043147

Bwburke94 wrote: CzechOut wrote: Also, please describe how the "must be written by the same writer" thing would work? Are you seriously suggesting that The Zygon Inversion is not the second part of The Zygon Invasion simply because Moffat gets a co-writing credit only on Inversion?

Peter Harness is credited as a writer for both, so both episodes share a writer and this rule is not violated.

A topic which was raised and discussed back on October 30 and 31 of this thread:

Mewiet wrote: A question I do have is this: if, for example, Catherine Tregenna and Steven Moffat had teamed up to write TGWD instead of JM/SM and then Catherine Tregenna wrote TWWL by herself, how would this policy count such a scenario? Would the Tregenna being a credited writer on both be enough to cement them as a two-parter?

RogerAckroydLives wrote: Yes, as co-writer credit, especially in the case of the showrunner, should not be able "contradict" the fact that the writer has written both parts of the story. If, for some exceptional reason, a writer chose to write one part of their story with a partner, and another on their own, it is still extremely likely that it could be classified as a two part story. But in your hypothetical, as in the upcoming Zygon two-parter, the fact that an episode has been "co-written" with the showrunner, a person with great creative influence over the final script regardless, should not discount that it is one writer's story, and they therefore have created a cohesive whole.

Mewiet wrote: RogerAckroydLives wrote: Yes, as co-writer credit, especially in the case of the showrunner, should not be able "contradict" the fact that the writer has written both parts of the story.

I'm of the same mind, but I wanted to bring up the point anyway so it wouldn't become a point of contention at a later time.