simonwood, 19 days ago

@LoneLocust Eventually you’re all going to come round to the fact this is Season 40.

LoneLocust, 19 days ago

@simonwood Wikipedia has decided that Ruby Rd/Space Babies kicks off season 14.

It’s a start.

Feels a bit like the world collectively telling Elon to F-off and refusing to call Twitter by a different name.

simonwood, 19 days ago

@LoneLocust There’s no way it can be season 14. Either you decide that whatever the BBC calls it is what it is (hence season 1 in 2005 and season 1 in 2024) or you use actual arithmetic to count up properly (hence season 27 in 2005 and season 40 in 2024). You can’t do it one way one time and then the other way the next…

LoneLocust, 19 days ago

@simonwood I don’t necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but that fight was lost ages ago.

This one might still be won.

simonwood, 19 days ago

@LoneLocust Au contraire!

All those ‘Season 14’ holdouts who slept through the 2005 ‘Series 1’ debacle will finally wake up and smell the coffee.

Sequential numbering’s time has come, and the Collection Blu-rays for the 21st Century episodes will be able to have their correct ordinals. (Except in the US of course.)

LoneLocust, 19 days ago

@simonwood Remind me which season was Planet of the Dead, Waters of Mars, and The End of Time?

simonwood, 19 days ago

@LoneLocust They’re specials, but I have no problem with them being under the umbrella of season 30. I’m a bit less keen on The Church on Ruby Road being part of season 39*, but you can’t argue with the Natural Order of Things.

• I’ve just noticed season 39 has more specials than actual episodes…