BTVS Speaking Time: Buffy Boos edition (racing bar chart)
Buffy is a hero. Buffy saved the world ALOT. Buffy cannot be reduced to the people she dated / flirted with.
And Yet... It is fun to compare. I created the Buffy Boos edition of the previous chart, and made some other improvements. ("Love interest" sounds like a 1980s term, and trying to be gender neutral I chose "boos.") So you have 17 of Buffy's boos in a racing bar chart, showing their speaking time, per episode. Unlike the previous version (with all characters) this has images for the top characters, and INTERACTIVE CATEGORIES. (Again, credit to J. Freedland who did the GitHub data work.) Details below the cut.
A Flourish data visualisation by Buffy Data Viz
The best part is the INTERACTIVE CATEGORIES!! They are color-coded in the chart and you can add or remove them at will. You can also flip the chart from Most to Least. (Do you reject that Faith was a boo? Remove her. Don't want to see minor baddies like Dracula? Remove them. Bored with the people she only flirted with? Remove them.)
Made using Flourish, it was free. This still lacks captions, which I hope to add in later. Will update if I do. End goal is a Tableau dashboard to dig into the full data, but this is fun for now.
This is a cumulative speaking time per episode for each of Buffy's boos in seconds. (The original J. Freedland data did the work of compiling this for each character for each episode. Note that on a high-level review it seems accurate. And the original data combines E01 and E02 for S06 into one entry.)
I have combined Angel's and Angelus's speaking time. This is consistent with how Spike's speaking time is treated. (I also did this in the previous chart.)
Online it looks like The First used Spike as a disguise a few times, so Spike's time could be inflated by that. You would have to check the Forever Dreaming transcripts for those moments to be sure. No other boos were used by The First as disguises.
I used the term "boos" very broadly. A racing bar chart of just Angel vs. Spike would be boring. As expected, adding Riley in does not make it less boring! I would not really count all of these people as boos, but Buffy had some sort of interesting interaction with each of them. Note this includes any speaking time they had, including to people besides Buffy, and also even when Buffy isn't around.
I DID intentionally leave out Xander in this, even though Buffy does flirt with him (magic, making Angel jealous). I considered adding him but his speaking time will dwarf all the others, so I did not.
Happy to share the source data (currently in excel) upon request, however it is really just the raw csv from J. Freedland's GitHub in excel, and then basic math making it cumulative to put into Flourish.
If you have any requests for this type of chart for BTVS let me know!
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Since tumblr launched polls there have been a lot of ship and character polls, and some include BTVS! A recent tournament for the AO3 top femslash ships included Tillow (Tara x Willow) and Fuffy (Faith x Buffy). In Round 3 Tillow lost, but Fuffy pulled out a win, by only 20 votes.
As part of the tournament there are downloadable data sets and line graphs. The line graphs are for every single poll, showing the votes over time for both ships in each round.
You can see above once Tillow reaches about 1,000 votes the other ship gets a strong lead and never looks back.
On the other hand, the Fuffy matchup was fairly close the entire round. The lead keeps changing between Fuffy and the Amity/Luz (from The Owl House) ship.
Super cool that people are visualizing this poll data!
Is there a way to see the exact results of a tumblr poll (actual number, not the percentage?)
I've heard people say something about an API or something, but I'm very technophobic and tried to look up what that meant and couldn't understand it at all.
Could someone explain to a newbie? Doesn't have to be super detailed, just maybe a bit more than "use the API" as I don't even know how to get started with that, and tumblr's guide for their API makes it seem like it's for people who are trying to build an app on top of Tumblr?
(I am reasonably fluent in python (including web scraping with various python packages, but only for things I can read off the html of a page, and "number of votes" doesn't seem to be unless I'm misreading it), and have passing familiarity with javascript, but otherwise know Nothing about web programming)
Never mind I figured out how to do this! (At least one way, though I suspect it's not the best way. I did not use Tumblr's API; still not sure what that's about)
Here's how I did it for anyone else who might have this question (for Chrome and Firefox):
In Chrome:
Click the vertical 3-dots menu on the upper right corner, then
Click More Tools -> Developer Tools
This opens a box that looks like:
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On the top bar where Elements is highlighted, go to 'Network' and click that. That should open an empty box like this:
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Then if you go to the url of the post you want (with the poll), the box will start filling up.
Under 'Name' there are going to be some files, and under a bunch of .js files, there should be one that just says "results"
(the page may have "results" files for more than one poll, because even if you use the link of a post, I think tumblr puts other similar posts in the same person's blog as "other posts you may like" underneath, but the first "results" file, which i've found to be isolated from the others has generally been the right one.)
(in any case, you can check that it's the right one by adding all the resulting number of votes and checking that it's the same number as what the poll says the total number of votes is)
Then, if you click "results" it opens another box to the right like this, where you can click "Response" at the top of this new box.
This should show one line (but it's a long one) which might say something like this:
(These are the results for This Poll about the tumblr shop taking the place of the account tab in tumblr's mobile app.)
(This was all in one line, but I added newlines to make it easier to read.)
Those numbers are the results of the poll. I'm pretty sure they are in the same order as the options in the poll itself (it's certainly true for this case), but it may be good to check against the percentages to be sure.
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In Firefox:
It's quite similar:
Click the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines), then
More Tools -> Web Developer Tools
Except that it now opens the box on the bottom instead of on the right.
"results" should be under "File" instead of "Name", still underneath a bunch of .js files.
Then click that "results" file, click "Response" in the box it opens on the right.
Firefox's is a bit nicer in that it adds the new lines for you:
(You want to click the little rightwards-pointing triangles to open the results, and the vote numbers will be shown as above.)
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So, a little over a week ago I posted a survey I made on the show. I was curious about the opinions in the fandom. The survey got 86 responses, which is way more than I thought it would! I had a lot of fun looking through all the responses as they came in and writing this up, and I've gotten lots of messages from people who filled it out that they also had fun! Also, thank you to anyone who reblogged
There are definitely some things I would change about how I did this and the questions I asked if I was to redo it in the future, but I tried to note the big things through the survey.
Also; when there were short response questions it would be way too long for me to have included all the responses. I tried to summarize the main themes, and then include a variety of responses and opinions that I found interesting.
If thereâs a response of yours in this summary that you donât want to be included please let me know and I will edit it out as soon as I can!
It's also a very long write-up, so... feel free to skim or whatever you need.
Question 1: When did you start watching the show?Â
22.1%; 2011-2015 (19/86 votes)
20.9%: 2021-present (18/86)
18.6%: 2016-2020 (16/86)
14%: 2000-2005 (12/86)
12.8%: As it came out (11/86)
11.6%: 2006-2010 (10/86)
Question 2: How were you introduced to the show?Â
The main themes from these responses included word of mouth from family, friends, or social media, watching it as it aired, or accidentally.Â
âI found a bunch of the books and some taped recordings of the show in my late-mother's belongings and realized it was her favorite show. I watched it to feel closer to her.â
âMy parents heard about it and we watched it together. I was 11. Do you know how crazy it is to watch Buffy and Spike fuck a house down with your parents when you're 11 on a DVD borrowed from your local library?â (yes, anon, actually i was in a very similar position haha)
âI stumbled on it when channel surfing in the 90sâ
Question 3: Would you consider the show to be an important and/or defining piece of media in your life?Â
94.1%: Yes (80/85 votes)
3.5%: No (3/85)
2.4%: Other (2/85): âI really like it but noâ, âIâve only started it recently so it hasnât had time to fester. But iâm sure it will become load-bearing in future so yesâ
Question 4: Who is your favorite main character in the show?Â
Note: a tumblr user pointed out to me that I included Anya and Faith in the least favorite question but not the favorite question. I fully understand that this was something I missed in this question and definitely could have skewed the data in this question and in a few future questions.
44.2%: Buffy (38/86 votes)
20.9%: Spike (18/86)
12.8%: Giles (11/86)
7%: Willow (6/11)
3.5%: Cordy (3/86)
Faith (2), Oz (2), Zander (1), Jenny (1), Dawn (1), Angel (1), too hard! (1)
Question 5: Who is your least favorite character in the show?Â
55.8%: Riley (48/86 votes)
20.9%: Zander (18/86)
5.8%: Angel (5/86)
4.7%: Faith (4/86)
Oz (3), Spike (2), Anya (2), Jenny (1), Willow (1), none of the characters (1), tie between Angel, Riley, and Zander (1)
Question 6: Who is your favorite season big bad?Â
30.6%: the Mayor (26/85 votes)
28.2%: Glory (24/85)
27.1%: Angelus (23/85)
7.1%: Willow- season 6 (6/85)
3.5%: the Master (3/85)
2.4%: Warren- season 6 (2/85)
1.2%: the Initiative (1/85)
Question 7: Who is your least favorite season big bad?Â
49.4%: Adam (41/83 votes)
22.9%: the First (19/83)Â
20.5%: Warren- season 6 (17/83)
The Master (2), the Mayor (2), Angelus (1), Glory (1)
Question 8: Who are your favorite big bad sidekick pairs?Â
79.1%: Drusilla and Spike (68/86 votes)
19.8%: Faith and Mr. Trick (17/86)
1.2%: Warren and Jonathan (1/86)
Question 9: Who is your favorite smaller villain in the series?Â
51.2%: Drusilla (44/86)
17.4%: Harmony (15/86)
15.1%: Sweet (from OMWF) (13/86)
5.8%: Darla (5/86)
4.7%: Halfrek (4/86)
Dracula (2), Lyle Gorch/the Gorch family (1), Ted (1)
Question 10: Which season has your favorite overall arc?Â
32.5%: Season 5 (27/ 83 votes)
27.7%: Season 3 (23/83)
18.1%: Season 6 (15/83)
14.5%: Season 2 (12/83)
Season 4 (2), Season 7 (2), Season 1 (2)
Q11: Which season has your favorite individual episodes?Â
27.8%: Season 4 (22/79 votes)
24.1%: Season 3 (19/79)
19%: Season 6 (15/79)
12.7%: Season 5 (10/79)
8.9%: Season 2 (7/79)
5.1%: Season 1 (4/79)
2.5%: Season 7 (2/79)
Q12: What are your top 3 season 1 episodes?Â
79.5%: Prophecy Girl (66/83 votes)
43.4%: Nightmares (36/83)
41%: Witch (34/83)
Q13: What is your favorite âcandy episodeâ in season 1?
26.8%: I, Robot⌠You, Jane (22/83)
19.3%: The Puppet Show (16/83)Â
18.1%: Donât have one (15/83)
14.5%: The Pack (12/83)
Out of Mind, Out of Sight (4), Teacherâs Pet (4), Never Kill a Boy on the First Date (3), Nightmares (3), Welcome to the Hellmouth (2), Prophecy Girl (1)
Q14: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?
Q15: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
Out of 56 responses, the main themes seemed to be that people enjoyed the season but it isnât as good as the following seasons. People liked how fun and campy it was, as well as the early dynamics between the scoobies, and the format of monster of the week.
ânot my favorite but a good set upâ
âIt was a rough season that I didn't enjoy. If I started watching buffy from season 1 I don't think I would have given it a chanceâ
âSeason one is classic and campy.â
âIt's super campy and fun! While not the tone the show took in the long run it's got the ground work of themeâ
âIt's so cute but not necessarily good but god they're adorableâ
âRough but compellingâ
âRocky quality, a lot of 'so bad it's good' type episodes, but with a strong beginning and end that hints at later show qualityâ
âI think it's the most unique - very much 'monster of the week' but it holds the most nostalgia for me and really encapsulates its own sort of 90s aestheticâ
Q16: What are your top 3 season 2 episodes?Â
58%: Becoming (pt 2) (47/81 votes)
44.4%: Halloween (36/81)
29.6%: School Hard (24/81)
Q17: What is your favorite âcandy episodeâ in season 2?Â
17.5%: Go Fish (14/80)
12.5%: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (10/80)
12.5%: Donât have one (10)
11.2%: Bad Eggs (9)
8.8%: Ted (7)
8.8%: Inca Mummy Girl (7)
I Only Have Eyes for You (5), Halloween (5), Reptile Boy (5), School Hard (2), Some Assembly Required (2), The Dark Age (1), Phases (1), Killed by Death (1), When She Was Bad (1)
Q18: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?
Q19: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
Generally, responses were very positive about this season. While people mention disliking Angel/Angelus as a character as well as some individual episodes, many people also mention how meaningful the season is to them and how much it improved from season 1.
âGetting more solid, but still has the camp from the first season. Still would never skip an ep, but itâs still not like next season, where almost every episode is GOLD. The introduction to the fanged F⌠three is a big deal and wonderful to watch, the metaphors and arcs are compelling. Itâs just the Go Fishes, ya know?â
âThe Angelus reveal is so genuinely heartbreaking and you can kinda feel the shift in the shows toneâ
âLove it BUT angelus piss me offâ
âLots of clunkers, could have used more Angelus rather than him being in the background aside from Innocence, Passion, and Becoming, but still a good season overallâ
âHurts my chest in a good way . so important to my inner world I donât know how to separate myself from itâ
âi think angel is a cool villain but a terrible boyfriendâ
âI feel like the show found itself a lot more here, and while there's things I despise (the racism of inherent to the angelus/jenny plotline, the introduction and then killing of kendra) overall its very well-written and Sarah michelle gellar's acting is given the chance to really shine. Brought in more emotional depth and the campy toneâ
Q20: What are your top 3 season 3 episodes?
45.8%: Band Candy (38/83)
39.8%: Loverâs Walk (33/83)
31.3: The Wish (26/83)
Q21: What is your favorite candy episode of season 3?Â
25.3%: Band Candy (20/79 votes)
21.5%: Donât have one (17/79)
13.9%: Gingerbread (11/79)
8.9%: The Zeppo (7/79)
Dead Manâs Party (5), Loverâs Walk (5), Earshot (3), Homecoming (3), Beauty and the Beasts (2), Bad Girls (2), The Wish (2), Dopplegandland (1), Revelations (1)
Q22: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?Â
Q23: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
People generally really enjoy season 3. People talked about liking Faithâs introduction, but wished that she had more screen time to watch her fall. Responses that disliked the season also tended to mention that they werenât a big fan of Faith as a character or didnât connect to her.Â
âSeason 3 is overrated as a season TBH. It has really wonderful standalone episodes but theres only 7 actual plot episodes in this season and that makes watching it as a whole Super frustrating since they never actually reach the full potential of the plot since they spend No time on it !!!! also unlike season 2 the stand alone episodes are not as thematically relevant to the plot which makes everything feel even more disjointed. Also Faith and the Mayor are soooooo compelling but its almost all in theory since we get No actual time with them in the season.â
âI actually donât like season three nearly as much as season one or two, despite how many good episodes it has, and I think itâs for two reasons. 1. I donât emotionally connect with Faith and thatâs a huge part of enjoying the rest of the season, and 2. Buffy and Angelâs story goes from the interesting exploration of danger and gothic romance that season two provided to high school melodrama that I donât really care about and think was dealt with in a more interesting way the previous season. And idk the mayor doesnât really make up for the other two problemsâ
âThere are no stinkers in this season, and the addition of Faith makes it one of my top three favorite seasons.â
âExcellent--I feel like I graduated with the people in that season.â
âLOVE THIS SEASON. Might be the favourite. While I'll never forgive kendra' death, faith is an amazing character and I love everything that's done with her. I love buffy's character throughout the season too. Just an excellent season of television. Solidified the show. The "class protector" scene makes me so emotionalâ
Q24: What are your top 3 season 4 episodes?Â
72.5%: Hush (58/80 votes)
55%: Something Blue (44/80)
37.5%: Who Are You? (30/80)
Q25: What is your favorite candy episode of season 4?Â
28.9%: Beer Bad (22/76 votes)
14.5%: Something Blue (11/76)
13.2%: Donât have one (10/76)
Superstar (6), A New Man (4), Living Conditions (4), Pangs (4), Where the WIld Things Are (4), the Initiative (2), Restless (2), Fear, Itself (2), Wild at Heart (1), Who Are You? (1), the Yoko Factor (1), the Freshman (1), The Harsh Light of Day (1)
Q26: Why is that episode enjoyable for you? (short response)
Q27: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
A general consensus is that the episode is weaker because of the transition between the high school and post high school seasons. Some mentioned that Riley as a character limited the effectiveness of the initiative, as well as Walshâs departure midway through the season. Many people agreed that the one-off episodes saved the season from the arc and elevated it in their eyes to be a good season.Â
âOne of my favourite seasons honestly. The overall arc is a mess and not that amazing but the one-offs are so good that it helps the overall season for me.â
 âWeak overall arc but some of the best comedy in the show tbh. Also some really strong one-offs!â
âNot a great start to college years, the initiative seemed a bit irrelevant and annoying at times.â
âi get why people donât love it, but i feel that this season is the season of character building, thereâs so much set up for the rest of the series. the underlying narrative behind the initiative is good, even if boring at times. love the new cast as wellâ
âi always say s4 is my favorite which is so unpopular to say and i don't love the initiative plot but it's got both faith and tara like cmon!! and soooo many iconic episodesâ
Q28: What are your top 3 season 5 episodes?
67.9%: The Gift (53/78 votes)
67.9%: The Body (53/78)
60.3%: Fool for Love (47/78)
Q29: What is your favorite candy episode of season 5?
31.5%: Buffy vs. Dracula (23/73 votes)
17.8%: Donât have one (13/73)Â
8.2%: Triangle (6/73)
8.2%: Crush (6/73)
Intervention (5), Family (5), Fool for Love (3), the Replacement (3), Checkpoint (3), Real Me (2), Spiral (1), Forever (1), I Was Made To Love You (1)
Q30: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?Â
Q31: What are your thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
Overall people think this is a great season. It has good individual episodes as well as a good arc, and responses talk about how the season becomes significantly more adult and serious in this season.
âThis season is so grown-up and moving; I marvel at how this season can come from a show that has its roots in teen drama.â
âso so sad, but so so good. itâs heartbreaking to see buffy grow up so fast but it feels so true to life. itâs the first season i really understood the stakes and it was a nice break from the big badâs goal being apocalyptic. glory just wanted to go home!!!!â
âQuite like it. Glory is a fantastic big bad and is a contender for my top big bad of the series. The most emotional season for me is well with both The Body and The Gift.â
âOverall a really good season, both in terms of overarching story and individual episodes. I know Dawn is a controversial addition to the cast but I'm personally really on board with her. The main thing that I think drags it down is that the person who plays Glory doesn't really do anything particularly interesting with her imo.â
âSimilarly to s3, really coherent and beautifully built story-arc with in-season conclusion. I still think the introduction (and way of introducing, and also general arc) of dawn was an incredible choice that makes the entire show exceptional. Getting more serious, building up for the following seasons' themes.â
âAfter Riley leaves itâs much better. Dawn is absolutely the worst by itâs forgiven at times of real stress and trauma, and she grows at the end and iirc is way more realistically a teenager after that.â
âItâs kind of slow to start and the first time I saw it I was really frustrated by them just dropping Dawn in with no explanation, but itâs a good and solid season overall with the end of the season being truly amazingâ
Q32: What are your top 3 episodes of season 6?Â
92.3%: Once More, With Feeling (72/78 votes)
64.1%: Tabula Rasa (50/78)
21.8%: Grave (17/78)
Q33: What is your favorite candy episode of season 6?
27%: Doublemeat Palace (20/74 votes)
24.3%: Donât have one (18/74)
10.8%: Tabula Rasa (8/74)
Life Serial (6), Once More, With Feeling (4), Flooded (4), All the Way (3), Gone (3), Normal Again (2), Bargaining (1), Entropy (1), Hellâs Bells (1), Older and Far Away (1)
Q34: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?Â
Q35: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
This season is either liked or strongly disliked by the responses. Many people talked about how the themes were important to them personally, but many others talked about strongly disliking the season because of how the writers handled specific characters.Â
âAs a whole I think the first half of the season was incredibly strong and the second half was much, much weaker. It has some of my favorite individual episodes but I could start to feel how the writers were becoming angry at the audience and started punishing certain characters. I couldn't finish certain episodes in the second half of this season. The rape scene with Spike made me stop watching the show for a while, Tara's death was a blow. It just went from being what could've been my favorite season to feeling like I was being punished as a viewer for liking certain characters. I know it's dark, and I can appreciate darkness, but at a certain point it felt vindictive and I lost enjoyment in the show.â
âOnce more with feeling brings it up so much (the best ever episode of Buffy) but so many decisions were wrong ie seeing redâ
âRarely ever watch this season. IMHO the worst season hands downâ
âI find that I understand Buffy's depression more and more the older I get. It's a great season.â
âBuffy's best and worst season all in one. Elevated the show beyond a merely well-done Campbellian hero's journey tale to something truly special. And it also made several storytelling decisions that ruined several character arcs beyond repair. Buffy's depression arc is her best seasonal arc by far and is an amazing interrogation of everything we've seen in seasons prior. Her climbing out of the grave in the finale and smiling at seeing the world before her is so incredibly satisfying. Her relationship with Spike is realistic and interesting to watch. And then...he tries to rape her, and their respective arcs are doomed to be about that moment for all of S7. Willow's slow descent into becoming an abusive girlfriend and power-hungry villain is utterly thrilling to watch. For the first eight episodes. And then...it becomes a drug addiction metaphor, and her arc goes to hell and never recovers. This season is BtVS in a nutshell: some experimental episodes, some risky and bold storytelling, some satisfying payoffs, and some serious backfiring.â
Q36: What are your top 3 episodes of season 7?Â
63%: Chosen (46/73 votes)
61.6%: Conversations with Dead People (45/73)
32.9%: Lies My Parents Told Me (24/73)
Q34: What is your favorite candy episode of season 7?Â
33.8%: Donât have one (23/68 votes)
23.5%: Him (16/68)
16.2%: Storyteller (11/68)
Conversations with Dead People (4), Same Time. Same Place (3), Dirty Girls (3), Beneath You (2), Get it Done (2), First Date (2), Showtime (1), The Killer in Me (1)
Q35: Why is that episode enjoyable for you?Â
Q36: What are your overall thoughts and opinions on the season?Â
Generally responses agreed that season 7 isnât the best season of the show. However, many responses have something they appreciated about the season.
âTo be honest, i had a hard time getting through season seven. I was already having problems with the show with the end of season six and It felt like even the show had no idea what to do with season seven. I skipped a lot of filler episodes or didn't pay attention to them when I was watching them. I don't even have a lot of opinions on season seven because I don't remember most of it. The finale was good and I appreciated the closure for the show.â
âtruly amazing. i wish i could speak eloquently on this but words are hard, just kno it is perfectâ
âI don't remember it much it's far too ambitious but I love the spuffyâ
âOnly good thing about this season is Nathan Fillionâ
âIt was a nice end to the series. I do think Anya should have survived.â
âNo ending is ever perfect, because nothing really ends, but it tied up the series better than The Gift.â
âAugh. So many bad plot decisions or character assassinations. My least favorite season. I would watch Go Fish at least seven times before rewatching S7 willingly.â
âA lot makes me angry about this season, but thereâs so much good too. It brings the whole series home in one of the best finales in the history of television.â
Q37: Which episode is your favorite in the series, if you had to pick?Â
Once More, With Feeling: 14 votes
Fool for Love: 5 votes
 Restless: 5 votes
The Body: 4 votes
Something Blue: 3 votes
Tabula Rasa: 2 votes
Dopplegangland: 2 votes
Becoming: 2 votes
Who Are You?: 2 votes
Passion: 2 votes
1 each: Hush, Checkpoint, the Prom, School Hard, I Only Have Eyes For You, Prophecy Girl, The Dark Age: the Wish, Gingerbread, Loverâs Walk, Band Candy, Chosen, the Gift, Amends, Weight of the World, Family, Halloween, A New Man, I, Robot⌠You, Jane
Q38: Which episode is most iconic, in your opinion?
Once More, With Feeling: 24 votes
Hush: 11 votes
Becoming pt 2: 3 votes
The Gift: 3 votes
Passion: 3 votes
Innocence & surprise: 2 votes
Prophecy Girl: 2 votes
Fool for Love: 1 vote
Anne: 1 vote
Q39: Which season do you rewatch episodes from the most frequently?Â
Season 2: 4 votes
Season 3: 4 votes
Season 6: 4 votes
Season 4: 3 votes
Season 1: 2 votes
Season 5: 1 vote
Season 7: 1 vote
Q40: How often would you say you rewatch individual episodes from the show?Â
17.1%: every 6 months (13/76 votes)
14.5%: monthly (11/76)Â
14.5%: every other month (11/76)
11.8%: yearly (9/76)
11.8%: every two weeks (9/76)
30.3%: other (including every few years, or watching many episodes over a period of time and then taking a break for months/years)
Q41: How often would you say you rewatch the entire series?Â
28.8%: yearly (21/73)
12.3%: every 6 months (9/73)
Other: including havenât rewatched yet, every few years, and used to rewatch frequently but not as much anymore.Â
Q42: Do you frequently engage with the fandom?Â
66.7: yes (56/84 votes)
25%: no (21/84)
Q43: On which platforms do you engage with the fandom?
Note: this question I was curious about, but understand I posted this survey on tumblr and on a discord for a BTVS youtuber and those facts have absolutely skewed the data.
93.7%: Tumblr (74 votes)
25.3%: Youtube- video essays (20)
19%: Youtube- reaction youtubers (15)
17.7%: Youtube- edits (14)
13.9%: Instagram (11)
12.7%: Podcasts (10)
7.6%: Tiktok (6)
Other responses: Ao3, discord, facebook, twitter, pinterest, books, reddit, forums
Q44: Do you have a favorite creator in the fandom? All creators that were mentioned are included here.
Passion of the Nerd (youtube)
@/jennycalender (tumblr)
@/lefrenchunicorn (platform unknown)
the_Eclectic_Bookworm (Ao3)
Summerfrost (Ao3)
@/all-seeing-ifer (tumblr)
Mona Fuchs (art prints)
Off Your Bird (platform unknown)
herinsectreflection (youtube if I remember correctly)
@/spikedru (tumblr)
Cass reacts (youtube)
Q45: Whatâs the most interesting lore in the show to you?Â
âthe demonic dimensions and vampire backstories!â
âThe nature of morality and the self !!â
âVengeance demons and their whole thing.â
âEverything with Ripper. And the Fanged Four.â
âI think that the vampire lore is deliciously messy and because of that there is so much you can do when interpreting it. Do I wish it was thought about more in the show? Yes. Am I pretty happy with it as it is? Also yes. I can have both.â
âThe Potentials and Watcher Council setupâ
âThe non-strength attributes of the slayerâ
âI think the soul cannon is an interesting concept.â
Q46: Which is your favorite Buffy ship?Â
Note: Looking back I worded this question particularly poorly. What I was curious about was ships with specifically Buffy because I feel thereâs some debate in the fandom about it
47.6%: Buffy/Spike (40/84 votes)
34.5%: Buffy/Faith (29/84)
6%: Buffy/Angel (5/84)
1 each: Buffy/Cordy, Buffy/Riley
Q47: What is something you most want to change in the show?Â
Many responses talked about Seeing Red, the lack of POC in the show (and their subsequent deaths) and specific character arcs (especially Zander).
âprobably xander's weird like thing with buffy and how he was always subconsiously protective over her, like with angel, spike, and rileyâ
âNothing, I tend to love things/people as they are, the good and the badâ
âThe racism is pretty bad -- the way there are 0 people of color in the main cast, most recurring characters of color die, the First Slayer is treated in such a racist way, the Slayer backstory is so racist, the portrayal of the Chumash in "Pangs", the portrayal of Mr. Trick, Chao-Ahn's existence, the treatment of Nikki and Robin Wood, etc. So I'd like to change that. If you want a more easily-executed character-based answer, I'd remove Willow's 'magic addiction' plotline and give her a proper villain arc instead.â
âSeeing Red character decision for Spike which was out of character for him even though he didn't have a soulâ
âNot to be basic but all of that? did not have to happen to women.â
âso Jenny Calendar was my favourite character in the show on first watch, and although I think her death was done incredibly well and part of a fantastic arc, I would have liked for her character and the contributions she made to the narrative to be remembered more often in later seasons, especially when it seems weird to me that the characters never bring her up (e.g. in discussions about re-souling vampires, Willow's growing magical ability, or Giles' personal life, all of which she played significant roles in)â
âKendra lives!â
âAnya deserved a better endingâ
âwell riley never existing would be great, or maybe xander losing his crush/ possessiveness over buffy, but really i just wish her friends would cut her some fucking slack.â
Q48: Favorite funny line/gag in the show?Â
âanything harmony probablyâ
âOut for a walk bitchâ
âdawns in trouble. must be tuesday.â
âJoyce and Spike being awkward in the living room in "Becoming Part 2".â
âI may be dead but I'm still pretty (that's the first that came to mind it's impossible to pick!!)â
âwell you were mythtakenâ
âOz's line about the mayor and hummus gets me every timeâ
âGrr Arghâ
âTiny, Tiny, Babies! And other lines from Rupert Gilesâ
â"One of these days you're going to wake up in a coma." Iconic, no notes.â
âIâm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex.â
âCan I trade the children for more money?â
Q49: Favorite moment or scene?
âCordelia bullying a vampire into running away in "Homecoming".â
âEither the "we're family" from family or Buffy and Giles in the car in innocenceâ
âAnything spuffy reallyâ
âWillow and Tara floating as they dance togetherâ
âRest in Peaceâ
âBuffy getting the "class protecter award"â
âthe final fight between buffy and angel in the s2 finaleâ
âThe scene where spike has the gun to kill buffy but ends up just sitting with her on the stairsâ
âThe confrontation between Willow and Xander in âGraveââ
Q50: Anything else you want to share, feel free to infodump here :)
âOkay, I mentioned little crossovers Buffy has had over the years? The basics of it is little nods, references, and shout-outs. The show itself connects to not just Dracula, but The WIld Bunch and National Lampoon's Vacation. Angel also connects to Aliens, Buckaroo Banzai, The X-Files, Evil Dead, Niel Gaiman's Sandman. The Official Continuation comics for Buffy also add Doctor Who and Godzilla. Yes, Really.â anon this is super interesting I had no idea
âgiles and jenny were constantly making out in the WORKPLACE in the halls in the classrooms in the library can u imagine how many students tried to go get A Book for School, the Place Where These Two Work, and had to leave bc their teachers were in there sucking face again. im obsessed w themââI don't interact with the fandom almost at all but the amount of Xander hate is so weird to me like he's not perfect and I think that's a good thing? He's just kind of a guy and people are really weird about him. Really turns me off from the fandom. But I sure love seeing gifs, fanart, and deep dives into lore so I do still look at some stuff despite the hostility towards some characters that are very dear to me since I was a childâ
âI am mid rewatching the show with some friends, currently mid s4, so my memories are mostly there. One other moment I really like that I'm guessing no one else will put: Chanterelle asking if she can be Anne in S3E1. Also I developed my love of puns from Buffy :)â
âI love that folks are still here for Buffy. That show feels like my religion.â
That's the end of the questions! Again, thank you all so much for completing it and I hope you enjoyed it.
(this took longer than I thought to write up and I have a headache, so if you see some mistakes in the grammar or wording or any inconsistencies please let me know! i'll edit it when i can)
Thanks to a recent Sunnydale Herald post, I learned of a post on BTVS Ratings by reddit user Normal-Appearance982. Using Nielsen Media Research the ratings cover all seven seasons. The numbers switch from household rating/share to an ages 18-49 ratings starting in S4. While there are average ratings for each season, there are also detailed numbers for each episode on their rating's website. The viewership is for the live showings of the episodes, it doesn't cover re-runs or streaming.
My only commentary is that their recap implies the show ended with S7 because of low ratings. My understanding is that the show was known to be ending early in the season, partially because SMG (understandably) did not want to continue playing Buffy.
I don't care about ratings data but wanted to pass this along as a data source. And if you are into it, there's some good OP comments and discussion on the reddit post.
I was thinking about Buffy's 3 main ships (to me): Bangel v. Spuffy v. Fuffy. I was wondering how many episodes (BTVS or ATS) where each ship has scenes together. Then inspired by these two polls I decided to add in two other non-Buffy ships: Gethan and Spangel.
Kudos to the Fuffy and Gethan shippers, who are working with not a TON of episodes with scenes together. Especially Gethan shippers, who only have 4 canon episodes! To be fair, Spangel fans only had 13 until S5 of ATS.
Summary ship episode count:
Spuffy (Spike x Buffy): 71
Bangel (Buffy x Angel): 49
Spangel (Spike x Angel): 35
Fuffy (Faith x Buffy): 21
Gethan (Giles x Ethan): 4
Any blatant negative ship comments, like calling a specific ship indecent will get you blocked. Ship and let ship. Other comments welcome.
Full details under the cut!
What's the Universe? The TV Buffyverse. (BTVS TV or ATS TV eps, the comics and books donât count.)
How to start? I started with the pre-count. The pre-count is episodes where both characters in the ship appeared.
Spuffy pre-count: 96 (inc. 0 on ATS)
Bangel pre-count: 56 (inc. 2 on ATS)
Spangel pre-count: 42 (inc. 22 on ATS)
Fuffy pre-count: 21 (inc. 1 on ATS)
Gethan pre-count: 4 (inc. 0 on ATS)
How to verify? I did not rewatch all the episodes! I rewatched a few, after checking transcripts, recaps, and ship gif pages.
What doesn't count? Someone talking about the other person, because I am not trying to include the various episodes where Faith is haunting the show. They must appear in a scene together for it to count. They must both be fully aware of each other. Shared dreams (like the Fuffy ones) do count, but regular dreams do not. Buffy Bot, Wishverse Buffy, and FirstEvil Buffy do not count. I treated Faith and Buffy as their "mental" selves during the two body swap episode scenes. Also I treated Angel the same as Angelus and soul-less Spike the same as soul-ed Spike.
Notes per Ship...
Spuffy (Spike x Buffy) 71 total
S1: 0 / S2: 7 / S3: 1 / S4: 9 / S5: 18 / S6: 17 / S7: 19 / ATS: 0
4x06 Wild At Heart does not count because in the cemetery she is not aware he can hear her speech "to him." 4x16 Who Are You? does not count because Spike encounters Faith in Buffy's body, so I counted that as a Faith-Spike scene. 4x22 Restless also does not count because while he appears in Xander's dream and so does Buffy, this is Xander's dream so neither appearance counts. 5x08 Shadow does not count because he dreams of her, but it's not a shared dream.
Bangel (Buffy x Angel) 49 total
S1: 6 / S2: 19 / S3: 18 / S4: 1 / S5: 1 / S6: 0 / S7: 2 / ATS: 2 (S1)
3x03 Faith Hope and Trick does not count because when naked Angel appears at the end Buffy has already left. 3x09 The Wish does not count because Wishverse Buffy is not regular Buffy. 4x08 Pangs does not count because Buffy is not aware of him.
Spangel (Spike x Angel) 35 total
S1: 0 / S2: 10 / S3: 1 / S4: 0 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / S7: 0 / ATS: 24 (S1, 2, 5)
4x08 Pangs does not count because Spike does not share a scene with Angel. 7x21 End of Days and 7x22 Chosen both do not count because while Spike watches Angel, Angel does not seem to be aware of him watching. For ATS, besides all of S5, they share scenes in 1x03 In The Dark and 2x07 Darla.
Fuffy (Faith x Buffy) 21 total
S1: 0 / S2: 0 / S3: 13 / S4: 2 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / S7: 5 / ATS: 1 (S1)
Every Faith appearance in a BTVS episode means she will have a scene with Buffy. She has 5 Buffy-less episodes on ATS. I did count the dream sequence in 3x22 Graduation Day Part 2 because I read it as a shared dream. They are both aware of the other.
Gethan (Giles x Ethan) 4 total
S1: 0 / S2: 2 / S3: 1 / S4: 1 / S5: 0 / S6: 0 / ATS: 0
Similar to Faith, whenever Ethan appears in an episode, he will have a scene with Giles.
This doesn't have visualization yet but I wanted to share the results.
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Earlier (while researching the BTVS Goncharov Index) I stumbled across the fact that Giles x Buffy is now #3 on the ship list for number of AO3 works! This is a change from before, the old top 5 in order were Spuffy, Spander, Bangel, Tillow, and Fuffy. I wanted to check the ranking of BTVS ships.
Ignoring the crossover effect (which is not too bad for BTVS ships), there is a very easy way to check what are the top ships on AO3. If you don't know how to do this, keep reading for simple directions and screenshots. I'll do another post with the Top 20+ ship results!
Pick your fandom on AO3, in this case "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)." You want the screen that lists all the works. Today there are 38K works for BTVS (TV). It looks like this:
(The default is sorted by Date Updated. Don't get distracted from your research by the new-to-you fic! Research!)
2. On the right hand side, under the Include section, click on the triangle by Relationships to expand it. It will show the top 10 ships. Next to each ship in parenthesis is the number of works.
3. Let's say you are bored by the top 5 (or 10) and want to dig into the even more rare ships. This is when the Exclude section is helpful. The Exclude section is under the Include section. Scroll down to it, expand the Relationships. Now click on the X, it will turn red once you exclude that ship. In the image I've excluded the top 4. Once you are done, click on Sort and Filter back up at the top.
4. The number of works will drop dramatically. Excluding the top 10 ships I end up with 22K works. Repeat the second step to expand the Relationships. You will find a new batch of 10 ships!
If you want to dig in on AO3 data, Destination Toast has a detailed tutorial that gets into more advanced stuff. I highly recommend it!
If you have a burning interest in non-Buffy fandom stats, but don't want to do the work yourself, you could nicely ask phantom statistician for some results. (You may have to wait a while, there's a long list of requests.) There is already a lot posted, so perhaps your question is already answered there. (She can use both AO3 and FFN as data sources.)
Shout out to Phantom Statistician who created the original pie chart of top ships in BTVS back in 2020, which is how I knew what the previous top 5 ships were.
And I know I've said it before, but while using AO3 data is easy, it does not include all fanworks, or even all fanfic for BTVS. Since Buffy went off the air before AO3 started, lots of works are on other websites and/or lost.
Also Elysian Fields is a huge long-standing Spuffy-only fanfic site, so focusing only on AO3 undercounts the amount of Spuffy fanworks. Even with that undercounting, Spuffy is still the number one BTVS ship on AO3.
It's been a while! This is a quick post on the Goncharov Index for BTVS. (Inspired by non-BTVS things like this complaint and this poll.)
Basically Goncharov Index = GI = your works / Goncharov works. As of today Goncharov has 777 works on AO3.
BTVS fandom: 38,932 works (nothing filtered out, so includes crossovers, so also includes ATS crossovers) ===> GI = 50
ATS fandom: 6,535 works (filtered out BTVS crossovers) ===> GI = 8
Buffyverse fandom (BTVS + ATS): 45,467 works ===> GI = 59
And what about the ships? This is a little weird because we are comparing one ship to a whole fandom, but then again Goncharov is a fake Tumblr-fever-dream so what the hell.
We already know the top 5 ships in BTVS. Oh WAIT! Actually this is a little different now. There is another top ship now and the order has changed too. I'll have to do a separate post about that. (An old archive that focused on Giles/Buffy got imported into AO3, so there's a new top ship.)
Spike x Buffy (Spuffy): 6,215 works ===> GI = 8.0
Buffy x Angel (Bangel): 2,377 works ===> GI = 3.1
Giles x Buffy (BG): 2,232 works ===> GI = 2.9
Spike x Xander (Spander): 1,989 works ===> GI = 2.6
Tara x Willow (Tillow): 1,692 works ===> GI = 2.2
Faith x Buffy (Fuffy): 1,487 works ===> GI = 1.9
Bangel moved past Spander for number of works! The numbers above are technically for any fandom. (From a quick glance at comparing the numbers overall vs just in the BTVS fandom the difference is small.)
If you are curious about the next largest ships on AO3, after these 6, it's Xander/Anya, Angel/Spike, Dru/Spike, and then Jenny/Giles.
(hey I have drafts for more speaking time viz but that will have to wait until 2023.) In the meantime, here's a viz-free summary of the Fuffy (Faith x Buffy) fandom on AO3. Will make some viz for it later.
For a show that's been off the air for almost 20 years, there's still a lot of activity on AO3! There were a total of 163 fanworks with the Faith / Buffy ship posted on AO3 in 2022. (Because AO3 accepts more than just written work, there's also artwork and videos!) Roughly half are rated adult and half are regular. And not once but twice we had 4 Fuffy fanworks posted in the same day! More details under the cut.
The month with the least fanworks was March with 9. The month with the most fanworks was December with 25. (For dates I used the AO3 posted date.) For the majority of these fanworks, Faith / Buffy was the only ship tagged. Several had other pairings (non-platonic) as minor or background, per the tags. Only 19 of the 163 fanworks listed another pairing first, before the eventual Faith / Buffy tag.
There were 2 dates with the highest number of works posted, both had 4 Fuffy fanworks posted that day. October 29th had 3 works rated G or T and 1 work that was unrated. December 4th had 2 works rated G or T and 2 works rated M or E.
The longest gap between Fuffy fanworks posted was 11 days, in the middle of March.
Ignoring the unrated works and including works with multiple ships (and including those where Faith / Buffy was not the first tagged ship), here's the breakdown between regular (G or T rated) and adult (M or E rated) Fuffy fanworks. (Although I am using the word "adult", works CAN be rated M or E due to graphic violence.)
There were 75 regular and 81 adult Fuffy works. (Ignoring the unrated works gives us a total of 156 fanworks.) So we have 48% regular and 52% adult Fuffy works.
That's it for 2022! I might take a look at the word length for the written Fuffy fanworks later, let me know if you have a specific question to analyze or specific visualization you want to see.
As a sort of postscript to my earlier post, Iâve made a quick chart showing a selection of characters who die over the course of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the subsequent episodes theyâre mentioned in (including appearances in dreams, visions and other realities, but not including any âpreviously onâŚâ intro sections or that stupid flashback in Him).
For simplicity, Iâm only counting characters who stay dead, and Iâm obviously not counting any characters who die in Chosen (as there are no subsequent episodes for them to be mentioned in). Iâm also not counting characters like the Mayor or the Master who Buffy herself kills.
Whether or not Harmony should be included on this chart is not immediately clear to me.  On the one hand, all of the showâs established lore is pretty clear that she dies at the end of Season 3 and the vampire called âHarmonyâ we see for the rest of the show is a demon wearing her body. But, on the other hand, none of the other characters ever mourn her or in any way act as if she died. So I guess I wonât either.
The section of each characterâs timeline shaded in blue shows the episodes between their first appearance and the episode in which they die. (They donât necessarily appear in all or even most of these episodes though.) The episode in which they die is shaded in black. And then any episodes after their death in which they are mentioned by another character (or make any sort of post-death appearance) are shaded in magenta. The horizontal axis gives the episode numbers, counting up from 1 (Welcome to the Hellmouth) all the way to 144 (Chosen).
As I said in my first post, I think Joyce really stands out here as a character whose death continues to haunt the narrative, but perhaps worth noting as well that Tara and Warren both get mentioned a lot in Season 7 (mostly by Willow and Andrew, respectively; this season in general is also somewhat complicated by the appearance of the First). Principal Snyder is also mentioned surprisingly often, especially in Season 7, but (perhaps understandably) nobody ever seems to be particularly upset that he got eaten.
Iâd somehow managed not to really think about just how few actual adult women there were on Buffy the Vampire Slayer until reading todayâs Insect Reflection essay.  But I messed around a bit with J. Freedlandâs Buffy speaking times dataset some more afterwards, and it really is striking, isnât it? Not just how rare they are, but what invariably happens to them.
The five adult women on Buffy with the most speaking time over the seven seasons of the show (not counting vampires or demons, and defining âadultâ as âanyone who, throughout the whole of the showâs run, is too old to be in high schoolâ) are as follows:
Joyce Summers appears at rank #11 on the list (with about as much speaking time over the whole show as Giles manages in just Season 2). Joyce appears in over 50 episodes over several seasons. Then she dies.
Jenny Calendar appears at rank #22 on the list (with about a third as much speaking time over the whole show as S2!Giles). Jenny appears in 12 episodes over two seasons. Then she dies.
Maggie Walsh ranks #36 on the list (with about 14% as much speaking time over the whole show as S2!Giles). Professor Walsh appears in 9 episodes in Season 4. Then she dies.
Gwendolyn Post ranks #68 on the list (with about 6% as much speaking time over the whole show as S2!Giles). Mrs. Post appears in a single episode in Season 3. Then she dies.
Catherine Madison ranks #106 on the list (with about 5% as much speaking time as S2!Giles). Catherine appears in a single episode in Season 1. Then she ⌠okay, technically she doesnât die, I suppose. (At least until the school blows up later.)
That means 40% of the âtop fiveâ only appear in a single episode. Combined, they have about a third as much speaking time as Giles over the full run of the show. And not one of them survives the series. Honestly, Iâm not even sure whether Catherine Madison counts, as most of the time sheâs on screen sheâs pretending to be her own teenage daughter. (If you donât count her, the next adult on the list is Doris Kroeger, Dawnâs social worker, at rank #123, who also appears in just a single episode âŚ. but at least is still alive at the end of it?)
Not making the top five: Olivia Williams appears in three episodes across season 4 â although only in a dream sequence in the last of these â but she doesnât speak much in any of them. Olivia only ranks #218 on the overall list (one space below Diego/Marvin from Lie To Me, if you want an idea of just how low down the list that puts her).
For contrast, the top five adult men (also excluding vampires or demons, so not counting either Angel or Spike) are Rupert Giles (overall #4), Riley Finn (overall #10), Robin Wood (overall #19), Principal Snyder (overall #27) and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (overall #29).
All of whom, you might note, appear in more than one episode (and all but one of them survives their time on the show too). Â Also appearing in more than one episode are Hank Summers and Ethan Rayne and Quentin Travers and Principal Flutie and Allan Finch and multiple others. And as I said, that top five excludes Angel or Spike, both of whom have (much) more speaking time than Drusilla or Darla or anyone else who might have made the list without the humans-only restriction.
Made some charts on this, including the top 7 adult women and the top 5 adult men. Even if you exclude Giles, the top 4 adult men still have more speaking time than the top 7 adult women! Chart with details for each of these characters and also the summary chart that shows the top 4 adult men beat the top 7 adult women in speaking time. Posts on my page if you want all the gory details.
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BTVS Speaking Time: Adults Men vs. Women edition part 2 (racing bar chart)
Inspired by this great coraniaid post, I created the Adults Men vs. Women edition of the speaking time racing bar chart in part 1. (It includes the top adults by speaking time, the top 7 adult women and the top 5 adult men. No demons or vampires included.) Spoilers for the show BTW!
Giles has an enormous amount of speaking time, so I wanted to explore that. Is it true that if we exclude Giles (who is Buffy's father figure) that the adult men and women have equivalent speaking times? (Of course this ignores that of the top 5 men only 1 dies and of the top 5 women they all die, but let's ignore death for a minute.)
Answer: Nope. Even excluding Giles the top 4 adult men have more speaking time than the top 7 adult women.
(Again, credit to J. Freedland who did the GitHub data work.) Details below the cut!
A Flourish data visualisation by Buffy Data Viz
There are 4 bars in this chart. The top one is "Top 5 M", so this includes all top 5 adult men by speaking time, or more simply "Men." The next bar is "Top 4 M", this is the same as "Top 5 M" but excluding Giles. Think of it as "Men without Giles." The next bar is "Top 7 W," this is the top 7 adult women by speaking time. And the last bar is "Top 5 W," this is the top 5 adult women. You can think of this as Women without Ms. Kroger or Olivia if you like.
The interactive categories for this chart are Men, Men without Giles, and Women. They are color-coded in the chart and you can add or remove them at will.
While Giles does skew the Top 5 Men's numbers with his speaking time, even excluding him, the top 4 adult men have more speaking time than the top 7 adult women. It's not a TON, but it is a noticeable difference.
Same as in Part 1: For the purposes of these 13 characters, they are assumed to be men or women. This is assuming that all 13 characters are non-binary.
Same as in Part 1: The top 5 adult men by speaking time are: Rupert Giles (most speaking time), Riley Finn, Robin Wood, Principal Snyder, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Note that of these 5, only 1 of them dies during the show.
Same as in Part 1: The top 7 adult women by speaking time are: Joyce Summers (most speaking time), Jenny Calendar, Maggie Walsh, Gwendolyn Post, Catherine Madison (Amy's Mom), Ms. Doris Kroger (Dawn's social worker), and Olivia Williams (Rupert's British friend and romantic interest). Note that of these 7, the top 5 all die during the show.
Same as in Part 1: Joyce and Jenny and Maggie have speaking time after their deaths, because their ghost will appear, or the First will use their body.
Made using Flourish, it was free. This still lacks captions, which I hope to add in later. Will update if I do. End goal is a Tableau dashboard to dig into the full data, but this is fun for now.
This is a summary based on the cumulative speaking time per episode for these 13 characters in seconds. (The original J. Freedland data did the work of compiling this for each character for each episode. Note that on a high-level review it seems accurate. And the original data combines E01 and E02 for S06 into one entry.)
Happy to share the source data (currently in excel) upon request, however it is really just the raw csv from J. Freedland's GitHub in excel, and then basic math making it cumulative to put into Flourish.
If you have any requests for this type of chart for BTVS let me know!
BTVS Speaking Time: Adults Men vs. Women edition part 1 (racing bar chart)
Inspired by this great coraniaid post, I created the Adults Men vs. Women edition of the speaking time racing bar chart. It includes the top 7 adult women by speaking time, as outlined by coraniaid. It also includes the top 5 adult men by speaking time. No demons or vampires included. This chart has the details for each of the 13 characters, so it is part 1.
(Again, credit to J. Freedland who did the GitHub data work.) Details below the cut, includes show spoilers!
A Flourish data visualisation by Buffy Data Viz
For the purposes of these 13 characters, they are assumed to be men or women. This is assuming that all 13 characters are non-binary. Giles is his own category only because his speaking time is so much greater than everyone else's. He is the top adult man per speaking time in the show.
The top 5 adult men by speaking time are: Rupert Giles (most speaking time), Riley Finn, Robin Wood, Principal Snyder, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Note that of these 5, only 1 of them dies during the show.
The top 7 adult women by speaking time are: Joyce Summers (most speaking time), Jenny Calendar, Maggie Walsh, Gwendolyn Post, Catherine Madison (Amy's Mom), Ms. Doris Kroger (Dawn's social worker), and Olivia Williams (Rupert's British friend and romantic interest). Note that of these 7, the top 5 all die during the show.
There are INTERACTIVE CATEGORIES!! They are color-coded in the chart and you can add or remove them at will. The categories are Giles, Men, and Women.
Joyce and Jenny and Maggie have speaking time after their deaths, because their ghost will appear, or the First will use their body.
Made using Flourish, it was free. This still lacks captions, which I hope to add in later. Will update if I do. End goal is a Tableau dashboard to dig into the full data, but this is fun for now.
This is a cumulative speaking time per episode for these 13 characters in seconds. (The original J. Freedland data did the work of compiling this for each character for each episode. Note that on a high-level review it seems accurate. And the original data combines E01 and E02 for S06 into one entry.)
Happy to share the source data (currently in excel) upon request, however it is really just the raw csv from J. Freedland's GitHub in excel, and then basic math making it cumulative to put into Flourish.
If you have any requests for this type of chart for BTVS let me know!