sorry to complain about my Plex server and Sonarr situation again, and really this is a Doctor Who complaint, but I think the distinction between "Seasons" and "Specials" within TV shows is fucked up, especially when it comes to places like TheTVDB. Let's look at Doctor Who (2005).

There are four season finales listed in the "Specials" catch-all season. They don't end the season they're a part of. Instead, they're just randomly thrown in towards the top of the list of Specials. So I have to go manually find them through something like Sonarr, or in the case of the new 2023 specials I have to set them to be monitored so they'll download automatically. These will, occasionally, be in Season Packs of shows, but it depends.
At the end of the day, watching these through Plex makes these distinctions not really matter. It's smart enough to know when S10E12 "The Doctor Falls" ends, it should go to S0E154 "Twice Upon A Time". But getting a "complete run" of a series is that much harder because you're having to sift through over 100 episodes of "Specials" that aren't really specials.
Which is the other issue here. There's nothing particularly different about "The Doctor Falls" vs. "Twice Upon A Time" to make any distinction between "Season" and "Special" necessary. If "Twice Upon A Time" is a season finale to Season 10, why is it not in the Season 10 folder? What makes this a "Special" versus a random episode in a "Season" outside of weird production things that do not, in anyway, matter to watching this show.
Let's look at this in two other ways.
First, would you consider S35E05 "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" of The Simpsons a special? I would say it fits the criteria of being a "special". It's a non-standard episode, made to be special within the framing of the entire season. It would be weird to throw that episode into a Season 00 folder, right?
Second, if you were to buy a Blu-ray or DVD of the Complete Series 10 of Doctor Who (2005), what episodes would you expect to be on there? Even though "Twice Upon A Time" is considered the Season Finale to Season 10, it's considered a Special, so it shouldn't be on there, right? What about E00E149 "The Return Of Doctor Mysterio"? That's considered a "Special", would that be included in the Complete Series 10 release? One of those specials is included in the official "The Complete Tenth Series" release, I want you to guess which one.
And what happens after these 2023 David Tennant Specials? Didn't the showrunner say that the next season of Doctor Who (2005) should be considered a Season 1? Does that mean I have to start looking for Doctor Who (2024), or does that mean I'll have to look for Season 15 of Doctor Who (2005)?
And this is just one show! Yeah, it's Doctor Who and this is just What Happens With Doctor Who, but what about... Animaniacs?
That's show that started in 1993, was finished in 1998, and then was continued on Hulu for three seasons starting in 2020. It's not a "reboot", it's a continuation of the show that ended. If you look up Season 6, 7, & 8 on most downloading search engines, you will not find them because they're either listed as a different series (Animaniacs (2020)) or given the wrong season numbers (1, 2, & 3 respectively). Are you gonna start renaming the seasons of Futurama once they went to different networks? What about post-cancellation Family Guy?
This shouldn't be so difficult! And I know I'm complaining about how people organize the things I download for free, but like... have some decency! Have some consistency! Stop trying to be so cute with it all!
