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What This Is

This is a many entries long project to crunch some numbers about the show. Like numbers? Empirical data? Statistics? You're gonna dig this.

DetailsBecause I'm an insane fan, I did a line and scene count of each episode, put out season-by-season summaries, then played with ( Read more... )

I feel like finishing this. Forgive the spam, folks. I'm gonna do this, then do the master post ( Read more... )

We're almost finished, guys! First, we're gonna take a look at each character individually before going crazy with the cross-season data.

There are a lot of graphs here, and I'm gonna keep the commentary to a minimum. What commentary there is tends to be on the big hitters (Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles).

Why don't we start from the bottom up?

( Oz )

Hey look! I have the Season Five numbers of Whose Show Is It Anyway? ready! Previous entries can be found at the Whose Show Is It Anyway? tagS4 brought some interesting changes with it, as does S5. Riley leaves midway through, Spike's role gets larger, and Dawn swoops in to get a large share of the screentime ( Read more... )

S2, folks! If you saw the first post of this series, you'd know that this is an attempt to do some comprehensive scene and line counts for the show to determine different trends and dynamics throughout and within seasons. Here's the post for S2!

Special thanks to peasant_ who provided massive amounts of data she'd gathered. It was amazingly helpful in ( Read more... )

Whew! So this is the start of a huge project that I've been working on. It was initially started to test the oft-repeated claim that "Spike took over the show". However, to do so, it was necessary to establish the dynamics of character screentime before Spike's arrival. This meant that the project expanded and became something, well, a little more ( Read more... )

To give you guys a break from glowy Bangel-fucking, let's play with Spike! I mean...numbers...concerning Spike...it's fun!

Old-school members of my flist might remember Spike Speak wherein I was a huge nerd tallied up the nicknames Spike used for people in S4. Basically, I had/have a thought that Spike uses people's real names more than fans seem to ( Read more... )

*uses one of the awesome new icons xlivvielockex made for me. :)*

Just to address this on the off-chance someone is concerned about it, LJ is offering up a "My Guests" feature to allow journal-owners to peek at who's visiting them. I haven't read the detailed discussions on it (though I have them queued up in another tab to read), but to give peeps the heads ( Read more... )

You may remember that I had a poll a while ago asking people which season was their favorite and also asking how they first watched the show. If you missed voting in this poll...tough, I've already closed it ( Read more... )

Well, in the past week or so, I've found some spare time here and there to go through the Spike scenes in S2 and S3 and, once again, keep track of the nickname-usage. That way, I'm all caught up and I just need to keep track as I'm reviewing.

In case you missed it, I made a post about S4 earlier with the hard data from my notes. This is just the ( Read more... )