My, the souls that find no peace

THE PITT LINES AND SCENES DISTRIBUTION SPREADSHEET

If you're only here for the spreadsheet, there is is. Go for it. I'm going to go over the basic numbers of this season like I did with the last, and then we're going to compare the two seasons.

I'm not taking a stance in this post in particular, this is purely for numbers. If you want me to find more numbers for other distributions or things to compare, let me know.

I did twenty-four characters in total. Here is the first pie chart related to actual line distribution. In this I included the "other" category to account for the total amount of lines in the show.

The season had a total of 10.58k lines. This chart rounds to the point ones place, but the spreadsheet goes to the point tens, if you're interested in a more detailed distribution.

Our top five contributors (excluding other):

Robby - 14.8% of the total lines with 1.56k

Dana - 6.2% of the total lines with 659

Langdon - 5.4% of the total lines with 575

Santos - 5.4% of the total lines with 571

Whitaker - 5.3% of the total lines with 557

How does that compare to our scene total?

These were determined by the scenes in which a named character has at least one line. The character appearing in the scene does not count. This is specifically for speaking roles in scenes.

There are 523 scenes total within the show (if you want to know, 2x11 has the most at 44 and 2x15 has the least with 26). Again, full breakdown across episodes in the spreadsheet.

Who's our top five? It changes a little, but honestly, not much.

Robby - 41% of all scenes, 214 total

Dana - 24.9% of all scenes, 130 total

Al-Hashimi - 22.9% of all scenes, 120 total

Langdon - 22.2% of all scenes, 116 total

Whitaker- 22.3% of all scenes, 106 total

The fact that it stays almost exactly the same whereas as it did last season

I think this is all really interesting to me, so now let's get into how these compare to last season. All under the cut.

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Langdon dropping everything when he saw she was hurt.

He made a joke to make her laugh and she was able to read the humor in his smile like a book whereas other times the jokes go over her head.

She then made a joke from a year prior that only he would understand, and he still remembered.

Dana and Perlah being confused and hit with "it's an inside thing".

Mel being uncomfortable and overstimulated and Langdon clocking that shit IMMEDIATELY.

Langdon ushering the police out of her room to give her space and even turning off the lights to make sure she won't be overstimulated and giving her a safe, quiet space to decompress.

All the little things between them is making me insane.

They knew each other for a DAY, mind you.

A SINGLE DAY. ALMOST A YEAR AGO.

in my case it definitely helps that I teach kids martial arts classes at a boxing gym with a lot of women. so little boys just factually cannot tell me that girls can't fight or aren't strong or something, because they're constantly surrounded by proof that isn't true. also rules are very different in a boxing gym so if a kid is being a little shit I'm allowed to pick them up and put them in upside down air jail. you probably can't do this in most contexts.

I think the biggest thing is that they need to see men and other boys listening to women. they're following the example that's been set for that. at home maybe their dad never listens to their mom, but when they show up at my class all the other boys are following my instructions. peer pressure is real and you can use it to your advantage. I make a point to tell the biggest buffest manliest dudes what to do in front of the little boys. now this works because those dudes already listen to me, but getting any dudes to follow your instructions could probably work.

the best punishment is the natural consequences of your behavior. if a kid isn't going to listen to me, he doesn't get to do class. this works because class is fun and he wants to kick stuff and hit people with noodles. kids want to have fun more than they want to misbehave. as long as listening to me is more fun than misbehaving, they'll listen.

because these boys are learning this behavior from their dads, the dads also tend to be the kind of tough strict emotionally distant parents that would yell at "girly" behavior or crying. even when I'm strict with the kids, I never yell, I obviously never hurt them, and I always listen. they want to yap at me about pokemon or youtubers. it can be tough when they're really sexist at the beginning but eventually they will show you something that their dad wouldn't approve of, whether they want a pink noodle or quietly mention they like a girly show. this is the part where you simultaneously act like it's no big deal while encouraging it. you need show it's completely normal for a boy to want or like that. if you can, bring up another boy or man they know who likes the same thing. I always show off my nails to the kids and bring over the guy who also paints his nails. you'll probably get "boys can do that?" comments and I usually just go "well he's a boy and he did it, so unless his hand falls off right now I think it's okay"

for me, it's always eventually gotten to a point where the boys realize that everyone else thinks it's normal to listen to women, and that if they want to have fun they need to listen too. they also realize that these people and these women are nicer and listen to them more than their dad does. they notice how all these nice people that make them happy talk to women very differently than their dad does. when those boys yelled at their dads for being rude to me, I made a point to thank them and say that they were right and their dads were rude.

from the report "Hidden Battlefields: Rehabilitating ISIS Affiliates and Building a Democratic Culture in Their Former Territories":

The value system transmitted by ISIS is also challenged in the classroom, for example by having women teaching and supervising the children. Ms Efrin explains: “These children have been taught by ISIS that it is a huge shame for them to be taught by a woman. In their mind they can only be taught by a man. And they regard anything that we teach them to be unworthy and against their religion, no matter what.” Female staff report that on their arrival, many of the residents refuse to look the women in the eyes, to shake their hands or to answer to their questions. Ms Derik reports: “When I first started working here the children were shocked and enraged when they saw me and understood that I would be their teacher. In the first class I gave them they refused to listen or participate. Some even refused to look at me. But after some time and many discussions they started to get used to me and the idea of having a woman as a teacher. Now, if I have been absent for a day, they come up to me and ask where I have been and why I did not come to class. So there is definitely improvement, but it takes time and patience.” The children also learn musical instruments, challenging the ban that ISIS had put on this practice.

*the recent attacks on DAANES by the Syrian government have led to escapes and raids on these camps, which has massively disrupted this system unfortunately

It's not some weirdo wanting a basic crash course in current affairs or the news cycle or how stock crashes happen. It is in fact a several thousand year old vampire who just got woken up when someone found him hibernating in a forgotten castle cupboard for like five centuries

And he's kind of nice, except that he's a bit, you know, feudal, he's not mean or anything, just utterly clueless

And when he says "general world affairs" it's like. Taking him around the supermarket and saying what everything is and how to use a check-out machine and what barcodes are