Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1272640-20161209215452

SOTO wrote:
 * I would add a rule that would state that if episodes are narratively linked, they are a multi-parter. This would make Utopia, Drums, Time Lords, Time Crash, and Damned a multi-parter.

Again, precisely what we're trying to avoid. Narrative should play no role in such a decision, because there is nothing objective to go by. No yes or no; only opinions and grey areas. We can't consider episodes aired in totally separate runs part of the same one story just because some editors feel they're continuous, so they must be. Pretty much all of series 5 is continuous; we've been over this. How is it not objective? Last of the Time Lords leads directly into Time Crash, as the latter is set during the final scene of the former. Meanwhile, both end with the Titanic crashing into the TARDIS, which is where Voyage of the Damned picks up.