Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1293767-20151116195314

Bwburke94 wrote: CzechOut wrote: Please describe the conditions under which something could be labelled as "to be continued", but not actually continued in a second part.

The obvious examples are The Almost People (which was itself a second part) and The Name of the Doctor. The former did not share any writers with the following episode, and the latter had an exceptionally long gap before the following episode.

Just what I was going to say. The Name of the Doctor as an example of a story that currently does end with "to be continued" (even though we currently do not recognize it as the first half of a two-parter on this wiki) unlike AGMGTW. TNOTD is a completely different story to The Day of the Doctor. TDOTD has nothing to do with Clara's echoes or the Great Intelligence. There even appears to be a time jump between them, as we don't see how the Doctor and Clara get out of his timeline, but Clara is now teaching at Coal Hill. The only thing connecting them is the appearance of the War Doctor, making his debut and second appearance. It's like Rose first appearing in Rose and then making her second appearance in The End of the World or Amy first appearing in The Eleventh Hour and then making her second appearance in The Beast Below. There's basic continuity of a character appearing for the first time and then making their second appearance, but that can be said any episode where a new recurring character is introduced. The End of the World continues more clearly from Rose (literally the first scene of TEOTW takes place after the last scene of Rose and directly follows it on a clip recap of that episode) than TNOTD does from TDOTD.