Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-413929-20151029063935/@comment-1916997-20151103145831

Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: ItachiIshtar wrote: Farerb wrote: The plan was 10 episodes in 5A and 12 episodes in 5B, and then abc added an extra episode to 5A making it 11. That move made 511 not be the 100th episode since A&E desperately want it to be the spring premiere so they said that 512 is 100th episode. That still leaves an episode unaccounted for, if the Season count is now 23 episodes according to Adam. 11 + 12 episodes would equal 23. There's also only 10 possible weeks to air all of those 12 episodes between March 6th (the confirmed premiere date for 5B) and May 8th (the last possible date for the finale, as it is the week before the Billboard Music Awards. Also it's Mothers Day like all other Season finales). Chances are there would have to be at least two weeks where we would get a 2 hour event in 5B in order for that scheduling to work, which is why I think the 100th episode could get that treatment. .  Probably 2 hours for Souls of the Departed (512A/512B), and then one episode each week (513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520) until the season finale which, like the past two years, will air two episodes back to back (521 and 522). So again we have 22 episodes with 23 hours. They wouldn't do it like that. The reason STM was like it was because they extended it after later episodes were written (410 and 411). They haven't written 513 and if there are two episodes in March 6th then 512 and 513 will air together. They probably assign episodes in the planning meeting before they write any, which is why they already have their numbers set to 22, when ABC gives them an extra episode, and thus don't change it.