Specials

Here's a summary of a support ticket I just submitted regarding what a mess this "season" of "specials" is:

Hi folks,

Trakt doesn't seem to understand the difference between bonus features and specials that are vital to a show's narrative, and this makes it really difficult to track one's progress on some shows.

The best example is the modern "Doctor Who." Hugely important, vital narrative episodes that are required viewing to follow the show's overall arc have been dumped into a clutter-filled "season" of 199 "specials."

Anyone counting on Trakt to make sure they see "Doctor Who" in its entirety will be wildly misled, to the point that they will suddenly have an entirely new main character several times without knowing how it happened.

Of those 199 "specials" fully TWENTY-THREE of them are absolutely vital to the show's overall arc. They aired between the "seasons," but they need to be watched in order, along with those seasons.

I use Reelgood instead of Trakt specifically because Reelgood has included these episodes at the beginnings and/or ends of the nearest seasons, so they appear at the correct point in the narrative, and users don't miss anything.

Please look into finding a solution for this. "Doctor Who" isn't the only show with a utterly screwed up chronology on Trakt — "Futurama" might be even worse, and there are others.

There are few ways to go about this:
1. Copy what Reelgood does, putting the specials with their nearest seasons
2. Have more than one "season" of specials: Narrative Specials, Narrative Short Features, Other Specials
3. Have "Seasons" for each special or cluster of specials, like Season 1 Specials, Season 2 Specials, etc.
But please do something, because what Trakt has now is such a mess that only someone who is already a super-fan can tweeze out which of those 199 "specials" are important to watch. (If you'd like help with that, I am one such super-fan.)

(BTW, another 20-30 "Doctor Who" "specials" are shorts that take place within the larger narrative, not vital to the story, but definitely something completists won't want to miss. And the rest are peripheral content, like making-of stuff.)