Welcome to the fangirl gathering that is the SPN fandom! :)
my first investigation of the fan boards only to find on the Sam/Dean battle in process
I usually restrict my fannish activities to my f-list on LJ, so I've isolated myself from the larger Sam-girl vs. Dean-girl debate. Although I have a vague idea how tense it can get, I have no idea how intense it is on a day-to-day basis. Is it a pretty pervasive issue on the boards you frequent?
My numbers are slightly different since my criteria was different (screen time)
Oh, wow. Fascinating. Did you write this up anywhere? If so, I'd love to read it. :) You know, one thing I was dorky enough to think about when I was doing this was the fact I was categorizing episodes (P or M) based on a minimum single occurrence/event of something (a new piece of information revealed about plot and/or motivation), not necessarily the magnitude of that event. For example, "Mystery Spot" and "Playthings" were both technically classified as Sam-motivation episodes (M) even though "MS" had more Sam-motivation meat to it than "Playthings". Your analysis covers that nicely. I find it really interesting our results are very similar, nothing like independent lines of evidence suggesting the same thing! Awesome.
Re: Very eloquent - I only wish I was
my first investigation of the fan boards only to find on the Sam/Dean battle in process
I usually restrict my fannish activities to my f-list on LJ, so I've isolated myself from the larger Sam-girl vs. Dean-girl debate. Although I have a vague idea how tense it can get, I have no idea how intense it is on a day-to-day basis. Is it a pretty pervasive issue on the boards you frequent?
My numbers are slightly different since my criteria was different (screen time)
Oh, wow. Fascinating. Did you write this up anywhere? If so, I'd love to read it. :) You know, one thing I was dorky enough to think about when I was doing this was the fact I was categorizing episodes (P or M) based on a minimum single occurrence/event of something (a new piece of information revealed about plot and/or motivation), not necessarily the magnitude of that event. For example, "Mystery Spot" and "Playthings" were both technically classified as Sam-motivation episodes (M) even though "MS" had more Sam-motivation meat to it than "Playthings". Your analysis covers that nicely. I find it really interesting our results are very similar, nothing like independent lines of evidence suggesting the same thing! Awesome.