Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-2.26.183.189-20170416191252/@comment-4028641-20170416231018

SOTO wrote: On a side note, you're not truly suggesting Friend from the Future be the first appearance listed in Bill's infobox? That would be a logical result of this suddenly being made valid. Factually speaking, it is her first appearance. Makes things more clean if you ask me.

Now as Moffat notes above, he didn't always know if he was going to incorporate the short into the episode. He probably wanted to have his options open, and furthermore he also probably just wanted to troll people who asked for spoilers about episode one.

The important thing is that, by the time both episodes had aired, he had clearly decided that the two needed to "fit," and had had designed this to be the case.

And again, if you think Moffat did a good job making the two fit is totally irrelevant. The important thing is that they were meant to go together, not that it worked.