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Updated: 9th of May 2004
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Added Shells, Underneath, Origin and Time Bomb.
Quite a lot has happened in the last 4 games that’s worthy
of note.
Angel has seen an impressive run. Getting 3 Centuries
(scores of 100 or more) in a row, this is the first time he has achieved such
a feat (though Buffy has netted ten straight centuries before). More
impressive though is Angel’s total score which at 1634 lines, is already 9
lines more than his past personal best in a season. A conservative estimate
would see Angel net 1,850 lines.
Wesley’s meanwhile has seen an increase in form of late
that has raised him from 4th to 2nd in just 4 games. He
has set his best ever form between A Hole in the World and Time Bomb, with
291 lines scored in 5 games. Additionally he has only failed to win a medal
once since Smile Time, nearly
doubling his medal tally to 11. Wes currently has a score of 812. His
personal best in a season is 892 (Season 2), it’ll be close but Wes should
beat this.
Spike’s form has tapered off somewhat. Although well ahead
of his early Buffy Season 7 form, it is much lower than at the start of the
season, indeed he has won only two medals in the back half of the season so
far (compared to 5, in the first half), though silver is a certainty for the
Girl in Question. Never-the-less Spike like Angel has already bested his
personal best season score (711 lines for Buffy Season 6), taking an
impressive 795 lines, a conservative estimate taking into account his presence
in the already aired The Girl in Question, should see him yield at least 900
lines for the season, which will leave the race between Wes and Spike for
second a very narrow call
Fred’s dead baby, Fred’s dead. So not much happening for
her, still despite the set back she has managed to grab 4 lines in 2 games,
through flash back and dreams, and is still sitting in fourth with a score of
614, which will make this her worst season since season 2. It is doubtful she’ll
hold on to her position in fourth, and will likely end up in fifth, baring resurrection,
and for the record Illyria’s impersonation of Fred counts as Illyria.
Gunn continues to have a difficult season, his highest
score coming from Time Bomb at just 47, last season he averaged 40.86 lines
per episode so its fair to say that Gunn is performing, and continues to
perform way under par. His current score of 550 should be great enough to
catch Fred and make fourth, and although matching Season 3’s 738 and season 4’s 899 is out of the
question, Gunn will at least beat season 2’s 588.
Harmony became a regular, and immediately dropped off in
form, In Shells (her last episode as a non regular) she scored 27, in the
three episodes since becoming a regular she has scored a total of 20. With
this kind of form it is easy to see how Lorne could catch her for 6th.
Still a score so far of 298 lines means that she has already scored 60 lines
more than she did in her ENTIRE Buffy carear (236 lines). If she nets 14 more
lines (and with this form that is an If), over 50% of Harmony’s Career score
will have come from this season (She scored 75 in the Angel season 2 ‘sode Disharmony.
Lorne’s form continued in the doldrums, though interestingly
his 22 for Underneath, is his second highest score of the season. His current
score of 271 lines makes it possible that this will be his worst season ever,
he needs 41 lines to catch Season 3’s 312. Now that’s only 14 lines per
episode average, but Lorne has only scored 14 or more lines in an episode seven
times this season. Can he do it???
Finally new regular and character Illyria continues to
climb the table, she has already reached 153 lines and Ninth, displacing Lindsey,
Knox, and Cordy along the way. If she continues this style of scoring, a
final tally of close to 250-280 looks likely, which should see her finish in
Eighth.
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Updated
the Buffy Season results with some new and funky graphics (also known as I just
realised I don’t have to program everything myself, and can just use MS Word),
and more importantly updated to add new characters (thanks to Celebithil for
spotting those), and correct an error in Giles’ Welcome to the Hellmouth score
which was originally credited as 20 lines and is in fact 50 lines and the
silver medal (again thanks to Celebithil for spotting that), the error is most
likely caused by a typo. The result of this change is that Giles came second,
not third in season one. It also means that Giles, Xander and Willow’s (who was
originally credited with the silver) character cards need updating. They will
be done soon. The Complete Line League (every qualifying characters performance
throughout the series) can now be found on a separate page.
Added
Angel The Series Season One League and more detailed information on Willow,
Tara and Oz. Next update will include more information on Buffy's Blokes Angel,
Spike and Riley. Writers Line League will be also be coming shortly
Added
more detailed information on Giles, Anya and Andrew. Next update will include
more information on Willow, Tara and Oz. Writers Line League will be coming
shortly and Angel the series lineleague will be coming before the start of the new
season.
Added more detailed
information on Xander, Cordelia and Faith. Next update will include more
information on Giles, Anya and Andrew. The top ranked 15 will each get their own
page. Also coming soon individual ME writers Line Leagues. Look out for further
updates.
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The Line League is a tallying of the total number
of lines characters have in Buffy the vampire slayer. Initially it was focused on
10 characters in season 7. Now it is a lot more inclusive. Any character to
appear in 2 or more episodes and spoke was included in the analysis, as was any
character portrayed by a guest star (as opposed to co-star), provided said
character could be identified from the actor (scenes are sometimes cut, and
actors credited). If you realise that I’ve made a mistake and left out a
character that appeared in 2 or more episodes either in a season, or the series
as a whole, please let me know. Remember the character must speak at least once
during the series, so Noodles (the Ubervamp) doesn’t qualify.
There’s a guest book at the bottom, please post your queries here and
I’ll try to answer them as soon as I can.
The Line League grew out of a dispute between me
and a Willow fan over whether BtVS was now the Anya Show. Finding the arguments
presented laughable (given that Anya had missed 2 out of the first 7 episodes
of season 7 (and has now missed 3), I attempted to show the arguments were
flawed, by showing just how little Anya actually got, Lines were chosen not
only for simplicity (A simple program was written to count the number of lines
in a transcript), but also due to it being one of the main arguments of said
Willow fan. The Line League's first post (a count of the number of lines of 9
charcaters and the Potentials, during the first 8 episodes of season 7) took
place at the Cross&Stake, where it was well received. Having used the data obtained
make my point I was encouraged to continue collecting the data. However after
episode 15 I felt that the big picture could not be seen by focussing solely on
one season and 10 characters, so the Line League was expanded to encompass all
characters who appeared in two or more episodes, and all seasons. This entire
study took approximately 10 to 12 hours for Buffy, the website has taken a lot
longer, and since its launch Angel results have been added, and additional
characters added for those characters portrayed by a guest star (as opposed to
a co-star), due to the fact that
several episodes had seen characters win medals when guest stars had been more
focused on.
A Line is a section of dialogue that a character
has, in general before another character speaks, or there is a long pause or
action sequence. Action sequences arn’t only fight scenes, things such as
taking off a coat, entering a new room, standing up etc, can also count. It is
however defined exactly how it appears in a popular Buffy transcript site. I do
not decide what is and is not a line, I have tried to keep my subjective
decision making out of this entire project where possible.
This is a difficult call. However unsouled
vampires, souled vampires and the human they once were are all the same
character. Aud, Anya and Anyanka are also the same character. Buffy and the
Buffybot are not the same character. Willow and vamp Willow from the
Alternative Universe are the same character. Willow and Willow/Warren are the
same character, but Willow/Warren is not Warren. The Uber Buffy in primeval is
Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles. In Season 4 of Angel Cordy is only Cordy in
episodes one to seven, and also through dream in Awakening, the story arc of
season 4 makes quite clear that Charisma Carpenters character is the Beasts
master, Inside Out makes it quite clear that the beasts master is Jasmine. Thus
from the moment Lorne’s memory spell takes effect on Cordy, Charisma Carpenter
is playing Jasmine until Inside Out (except in the dream segments of
Awakening). A Character is also only counted as appearing if they are conscious
(so Coma Cordy doesn’t count). This is a very difficult call, and judgements
have been made on a case by case analysis. I reserve the right to amend this
decision.
This is just Raw Data, all that it proves with
certain is the number of lines a character had (which is what it set out to
do). Conclusions can be made based on the data, but they will be open to
interpretation. If anything I think it proves that screen time is not that
important to a characters overall story. Quality is not something that can be
measured.
Lines that occur in dreams, telepathy, fantasies
and flashbacks, even to a point earlier in the episode all count. Fantasies
also count this is a decision I have had to make due to not only Storyteller
but episodes such as Normal Again and The Weight of The World and to a certain
extent even Nightmares. Flashbacks themselves can be subjective due to the
character telling the story, and at some point they become a fantasy of the
storyteller. Rather than work out what this point is I have decided to include
all fantasies, since there is also the issue of fantasies and dreams only being
separated by sleep.
This was actually a difficult decision. Since
stock footage Buffy actually spoke, she impacted on the episode, and that time
could have been used for lines of other characters. Therefore it counts as an appearance.
However counting every use of Stock footage could and would result in a lot of
characters appearing with in an episode with no lines at all, simply because
they were in the background of some stock footage. This mucks up their results
(averages for example), and since they don’t speak they aren’t impacting on the
episode, and with the vast number of characters Buffy and Angel have had, 5
year old stock footage has a lot of characters who are no longer part of the
show. Therefore Stock footage only counts for the participants who speak a
credited line.
A Gold episode for a character is when a character
had the most lines in an episode, Silver is when a character had the second
most lines in an episode, Bronze is when a character had the third most lines
in an episode. Simple. Played means the number of episodes in which said
character appeared. The Line League is a tournament every game needs a winner.
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