Clark time through 6 episodes, S2-S9
I was asked by the lovely and charming tariel22 how Tom screentime for S9 in the first 6 eps compares to his screentime in previous seasons.
Now, some of those numbers I didn't have. Because I started doing the screentime totals in real time at S6, thats when I started to keep a tally of the numbers as the season went along. But for seasons 2-5 (yes, S1 is still to be done), I had gone back to do those, and hadn't kept the numbers the same way.
Anyway, thats a very boring explanation of "my process".
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So, at her request, I went back and got those figures for S2-S5, and Holy Toledo! What the heck happened?
So, here we go, in descending order:
S9: 105m, 12s
S8: 117m, 14s
S7: 112m, 4s
S6: 94m, 50s (Wow!)
--But, now look at the difference--
S5: 133m, 36s
S4: 140m, 50s
S3: 151m, 48s
S2: 145m, 32s
I don't know...I'm no expert here...but as the show reaches its climax, shouldn't Clark be featured more and more, not less? I mean, don't get me wrong, because I think Clark has been pretty awesome this season. I just don't quite understand why there's so much less of him on screen when the fulltime cast is smaller.
BTW, this is Tom Welling screentime, to be precise, so it includes his stint as Bizarro, and his turn as Clarkionel in Transference, and also his added time as Joe in Relic.
And boy, now I remember one of the many reasons S6 frustrated the hell out of me.