Counted Doctor Who season 1
Feb. 4th, 2012 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have a preliminary character count on Doctor Who season 1
http://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/2376832.html
I need to watch it again to make sure all characters are speaking characters and I identified them correctly.
Also to do the Bechdel count and the death count.
I've been making up rules as I go along, especially about aliens and computer voices, who are clearly actors and characters but not necessarily women or characters of color. Blue not being the sort of color I'm interested in. This especially confuses things in episodes with very many different aliens all talking. Like the very second episode ever. I think that one will remain confusing no matter how I set the rules. Cassandra all on her own gives the boundaries a kicking.
Also I wouldn't usually count computers when looking into the representation of women on TV, but, a whole lot of computer voices are feminine. Does that matter? Well if I don't write it down somewhere I'll not notice if there's a pattern, if women are over represented in the computer voice department. But if I do write it down, do I count it in the total characters, or the total women? No, because there's no human woman there. I wish to count human women. But even if I do keep count of computer voices, where do I figure Dalek and Cyberman voices? Do they count as computers too? Do Daleks and Cybermen have gender, even when you know who they were before they turned into Daleks and/or Cybermen? I have decided no, and am not going to count them.
The limitations on this counting thing are readily apparent.
I've written all the characters down on a notepad so I can change the rules and recount later if I want.
But SF is, for obvious reasons, a bugger to count.
http://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/2376832.html
I need to watch it again to make sure all characters are speaking characters and I identified them correctly.
Also to do the Bechdel count and the death count.
I've been making up rules as I go along, especially about aliens and computer voices, who are clearly actors and characters but not necessarily women or characters of color. Blue not being the sort of color I'm interested in. This especially confuses things in episodes with very many different aliens all talking. Like the very second episode ever. I think that one will remain confusing no matter how I set the rules. Cassandra all on her own gives the boundaries a kicking.
Also I wouldn't usually count computers when looking into the representation of women on TV, but, a whole lot of computer voices are feminine. Does that matter? Well if I don't write it down somewhere I'll not notice if there's a pattern, if women are over represented in the computer voice department. But if I do write it down, do I count it in the total characters, or the total women? No, because there's no human woman there. I wish to count human women. But even if I do keep count of computer voices, where do I figure Dalek and Cyberman voices? Do they count as computers too? Do Daleks and Cybermen have gender, even when you know who they were before they turned into Daleks and/or Cybermen? I have decided no, and am not going to count them.
The limitations on this counting thing are readily apparent.
I've written all the characters down on a notepad so I can change the rules and recount later if I want.
But SF is, for obvious reasons, a bugger to count.
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Date: 2012-02-04 08:41 pm (UTC)