Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4786757-20141217013835/@comment-24957312-20141217053853

Anubis16 wrote: X-Men Are Cool wrote: It will be Season Five Episode 12. Season Four finale is 88 so twelve episodes later is the 100th. But do we count Smash the Mirror as two episodes or just one and what about Snow Drifts and There's No Place Like Home

In USA, 42 minutes (60 with commercials) = 1 episodes, so Smash The Mirror is in fact two episodes. There are some countries and websites that air it as two different episodes with different counting and i am betting its going to be like that in the DVD (just like Snow Drifts/There's No Place Like Home). Part 2 even has its own title card and "previously on..." which shows what happened in part one.

Production code means nothing in broadcasting and means noting to viewers. There are specific rules. For example if you ever watched Buffy, there are episode : What's My Line, Becoming, Graduation Day - that are two parted episodes and still have proper numbering. Even im movies - The Hunger Games mockingjay, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows, Twilight - are splitted, Are they one movie with two parts? NO. It's two different movies. And you spend as much money and time.

I personally count them as two different episodes, so for me 100th episode will be 5x11.