Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1827503-20160603203003

Why do we even need to number stories post-Survival? Why can't we just restart the count at 1 for Rose and count each episode separately?

The fact is, no reasonable method of numbering stories works without a list of qualifications or off-site knowledge. You're trying to push Tangerineduel's title proposal as a counting method, when what we should really be doing is eschewing the concept of "stories" entirely in BBC Wales-era Doctor Who.

The very fact there is a dispute over what episodes fit together is an indication that modern Who doesn't use the same story format as the classic series, and we shouldn't hold it to the old format when it makes no sense to do so.