#oh this is soooo fun and self indulgent. nothing more fun than looking at data and going over favorites

[louisdelac]

tmags data

okay so one thing i've learned from making pie charts is that compiling data sucks if you don't have a great sorting system for that data. egad.

anyways let's look at some data <3:

so what we can learn from this is that i like tma. i think it's very very very exceptionally good, and by far the vast majority of episodes land perfectly or near perfectly for me.

i was a little surprised to see each season average go up consecutively when i first saw it, but thinking about it, that does track. i have and likely always will be a fan of knowing characters intimately, and the more i get of them, the more attached i grow. it helps, i think, that tma's first 4 seasons have excellent payoff, and every revelation you reach only helps mount your excitement for the next step forward in the plot.

and also i go a little insane in season 4 because elias is having such a good time. sue me.

that said, if i were to rank them without any objective number attached, i'd probably go season 2 > season 4 > season 1 > season 3. much like the extremely negligible distinction between my average score for these seasons, the amount separating my favorite from my least favorite is almost nothing at all. i just love jon when he's paranoid and unhappy.

okay moving on! reranking my top 10 favorite episodes based off all this:

new vs old

and what can be learned from this is that after relistening to the series, i've decided i really like statements that touch on history. this also isn't surprising, i'm pretty sure in one of my episode reviews i mentioned that there's something very engaging about the older statements - there's a willingness and sincerity in belief that's lacking in modern statements, by nature of how modern man has established a norm of intellectualism and rationale that promotes cool detachment and ironic engagement with the world. i think we should go back to fearing god's wrath tbh.

also since i'm already ranking things, my ranking of the main cast (again, only through s4. we aren't bring s5 into this):

jon > elias > melanie > daisy > basira > martin > sasha > georgie > tim

and top 10 favorite statement givers:

mary keay > oliver banks > agnes montague (in absentia) > jared hopworth > michael shelley > hezekiah wakely > manuela dominguez > peter lukas > adelard dekker > eric delano

and that's all the data i have! what a very excellent 4 season show, literally no notes, it is completely perfect as is <3

#tmags #tmags ranking #oh this is soooo fun and self indulgent. nothing more fun than looking at data and going over favorites #also martin would rank higher if i got more of s4 of him tbh #i love lonely martin so so so much <3