burning questions for the spreadsheet

[jmtorres]

When tallying death tolls, should we count demons and hosts seperately?

When tallying screentime, should already dead people (ghosts, zombies) count automatically as torture/gore/scare porn or should it matter what they look like (see 5.15, 5.16)?

ETA per niq: Relatedly, how should we class gender on demons? Should it be based on the host we see them die in, or should we be taking a look at what different kinds of hosts we seem them in and what kind of host they take most?

ETA2: Blood goatee: gore porn? not gore porn? ETA3: Also, bloodplay, as in Ruby cutting herself up for Sam's delectation, etc: gore porn? not gore porn?

Comments

[niqaeli]

Relatedly, how should we class gender on demons? Should it be based on the host we see them die in, or should we be taking a look at what different kinds of hosts we seem them in and what kind of host they take most?

[grey_bard]

I say make note of all of these details. All relevant! And you should total whether speaking role or not, or recurring or not.

[jmtorres]

We're marking which episodes, which will cover recurring.

[grey_bard]

Oh, sorry. Was just thinking you covered the one in which Character X died. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I really appreciate this resource you're creating!

[alexseanchai]

I've been playing with this already. I'm counting demons and hosts separately, and for gender and ethnicity for demons I'm looking at the hosts--I'm counting Meg as female because Nicki Aycox and Rachel Miner are female even though Jared Padalecki isn't, and all three are white so I'm counting Meg as white; whenever I get around to seasons two and three, the crossroads demon will be counted as female because the actors who play said demon are all female, and mixed-race because Christie Laing (Robert-Johnson-era demon) is black and Sandy McCoy (Bedtime Stories demon) is Eurasian.

[jmtorres]

*adds race/ethnicity column to spreadsheet of doom*

Your data is interesting! I am especially interested in your privileged insult count, which is something we won't be counting, we're mostly doing visual/duration data.

[azurelunatic]

Depends on the ghost/zombie, I would say.

Do dreams and flashbacks with people who are dead count as dead people?

[jmtorres]

Are they dead at time of memory?