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Demographics of Stargate SG-1, season two.
Continuing the counting project (follow that link for explanation and methodology), my chart for The Demographics of Stargate SG-1, Season Two is up at the Characters Count wiki. (Semi-relatedly, there is also a chart up for Merlin! such_heights even tracked deaths, which totally defeated me for SG-1.)
I switched from using caps to distinguish levels of Bechdel fail to using numbers--Fail 1 fails on the first criterion ("There are two..."), Fail 2 fails on the second ("And they talk to each other"), Fail 3 fails on the third ("About something other than..."). Fail 3's actually seem to be relatively rare.
Takeaways from the Season 2 results:
Representation of women improved somewhat. Season 1 had three episodes with only one woman; Season 2 had none. Season 1 had 9/21 Bechdel Test passes, Season 2 had 11/22. Median percentage of women among the speaking characters increased from 25% to 28.6%. Still nothing to write home about, but moving in the right direction, however slightly.
Representation of people of color was sort of a mixed bag. Episodes with Teal'c as the only person of color declined from seven to four, but race-Bechdel test passes also declined, from eight to five. (That was the stat I couldn't get over, when I put the chart together. In all of season two, there were FIVE EPISODES in which two characters of color spoke to one another. FIVE!) Median percentage of characters of color did move upward a little, though, from 18.1% to 20.7%.
"Family" was the episode that passed best on the Bechdel and Race-Bechdel tests (although the Bechdel Test pass was iffy, which, given what I am willing to accept as a pass from this show, is pretty sad).
"Gamekeeper" gets special mention for having 46.7% female characters in speaking roles (7 out of 15) and still utterly failing to have any two women speak to each other directly.
And now, onward into Season 3... (Guys, I am kind of excited about Season 3 so far, I am just saying. And now that I've said that I will doubtless find myself watching something really wretched tonight.)
I switched from using caps to distinguish levels of Bechdel fail to using numbers--Fail 1 fails on the first criterion ("There are two..."), Fail 2 fails on the second ("And they talk to each other"), Fail 3 fails on the third ("About something other than..."). Fail 3's actually seem to be relatively rare.
Takeaways from the Season 2 results:
Representation of women improved somewhat. Season 1 had three episodes with only one woman; Season 2 had none. Season 1 had 9/21 Bechdel Test passes, Season 2 had 11/22. Median percentage of women among the speaking characters increased from 25% to 28.6%. Still nothing to write home about, but moving in the right direction, however slightly.
Representation of people of color was sort of a mixed bag. Episodes with Teal'c as the only person of color declined from seven to four, but race-Bechdel test passes also declined, from eight to five. (That was the stat I couldn't get over, when I put the chart together. In all of season two, there were FIVE EPISODES in which two characters of color spoke to one another. FIVE!) Median percentage of characters of color did move upward a little, though, from 18.1% to 20.7%.
"Family" was the episode that passed best on the Bechdel and Race-Bechdel tests (although the Bechdel Test pass was iffy, which, given what I am willing to accept as a pass from this show, is pretty sad).
"Gamekeeper" gets special mention for having 46.7% female characters in speaking roles (7 out of 15) and still utterly failing to have any two women speak to each other directly.
And now, onward into Season 3... (Guys, I am kind of excited about Season 3 so far, I am just saying. And now that I've said that I will doubtless find myself watching something really wretched tonight.)
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