Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26469787-20150726050336/@comment-26285319-20160606154532

Okay, then since when has broadcast order defined story placement? If we go through with that idea, then technically The Night Of The Doctor would have to take place after The Name Of The Doctor, which is just categorically wrong.

Just because the stories were meant to be viewed in that order, it doesn't mean that they were meant to take place in that order, because, let's face it, by and large, it didn't matter what order you used to watch serials in, as only fans would really notice and not the Joe Public.

I'd also like to add in that if these stories were intended to be broadcast in this original order, then that should count as authorial intent. For example, with The Infinity Doctors, I don't particularly recall Lance Parkin shouting from the heavens that it was set in a non-DWU universe, but we regard it as such due to what he said in interviews after it was published. Hence, we should probably carry out the intent of the writers and production team in this case, instead of the schedulers or JNT.