User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Rhonda's Random Rankings/@comment-1874924-20181223170236/@comment-1874924-20190116060840


 * more focus doesn't necessarily mean more episodes

This was especially true with Sadie, who as I previously mentioned didn’t even make it as far in LTDI as she did in canon; but boy, did she make a splash while she was around. I might have kept her around longer had I known how popular she was going to be, but I couldn’t do that without rewriting entire storylines, so I gave her more focus while I could. Conversely, while Beth may not have had any more focus than in canon, despite being in a couple more “episodes”, I think she had more “quality time” by virtue of not being in Heather’s shadow.

By rep count, Duncan only passed Zeke in the last chapter, and only because he’s had a lot of focus since Zeke left due to things like his fight with Jasmine and his encounter with Peter the Wolf. When Zeke left, Duncan was still only one place below him, but was about midway between him and Leshawna. But now that Zeke’s gone, he will perforce start to fall in the “rep ranking”. That’s why Sadie is #10 now after being #4 when she left—about midway between Katie and Gwen. (Sadie is still ahead of D.J. because he did so little in the early episodes. He’s #12 now, but didn’t even pass Harold until the Boney Island challenge.)