User blog comment:Western Gen/Speculations for Season 12/@comment-198.45.201.206-20140422192730/@comment-1886172-20140426185121

Actually, they did have SOME relevance to the story. Donut not being in Season 6 was somewhat explained in Recreation and Relocated where he was on some kind of a mission. True, it doesn't make much sense considering Sarge, Grif, and Simmons are all sent to the same place, though Sarge refused, but whatever. With Doc, it also makes some sense as to why he's not in Reconstruction or Recreation, he's not officially part of either team, instead of Command. Where it stopped making sense storywise, in my opinion, was Series 9 and 10. Apparently the Reds and Blues never went back to Valhalla after beating the Meta, which is strange considering that's where the Reds were headed and they'd have been able to fix up Lopez, and see Donut is alive. What makes even less sense is the fact that Doc went back to Valhalla when the teams apparently didn't. And then in Season 11 it doesn't make much sense either, for Donut at least, as he was there to bring down the head of Project Freelancer, so he should have been on the ship when it crashed, and Doc likely would be too rather than abandoning him in some canyon. Maybe I'm a bit too picky, but it seems like the series had more continuity and fewer plot holes when it was all about the jokes, with some plot thrown in, rather than plot with some jokes.