User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Rhonda's Random Rankings/@comment-1874924-20181223170236/@comment-3350823-20190116032910

That's true! Geoff did a big role in that flashback. I'd count it, simply because Geoff felt like he was in character. I thought back to that moment, but was thinking more of reality and how it happened. I considered it more of a Bridgette moment, since that was told from her POV. But there is no denying Geoff had a role in that.

The number of times a character is mentioned is a nice, but inaccurate indicator. Besides being refered to by a nickname, there is also dialogue that doesn't used a "he/she said". That's not surprising about Heather. At first, I wouldn't pick her to be the most focused character of LTDI, but the further it's gone on it isn't that surprising; everything comes back to Heather.

I didn't notice it, but that makes sense about Gwen's focus; it's only on certain chapters. Her romance with Trent ending sooner, both by hooking up and being eliminated, when it's a bigger focus on canon was my main thought as to why she's been present less. Though I guess with Cody around, that might be balanced out.

It is interesting to see whose gotten more focus. I'm honestly shocked that Duncan is on the same tier as Ezekiel, who has been very present throughout the story it feels like.

That's true! When you realize that three characters are returnees and make it closer to canon, that does lessen the weight of the statement (especially since one character who made the merge in canon and didn't in LTDI only made it due to returning). I guess I count the returnees as making the merge, if only because the wiki does.

I agree, I think I was conditioned to expect such a big difference; that's why I was kind of shocked to find how many still did make the merge. Of course it's also because I see LTDI as focusing on more of the minor characters of the canon season. I just assumed there would be more. But more focus doesn't neccesarily mean more episodes.

And you pretty much said exactly why there was this more focus! And frankly I glad for it. Ezekiel and Sadie are never characters I expect to have this high on rankings, but dang if I'm not glad to have them!