Talk:List of character appearances by episode

Appearances

• I think you folks are just using this article as an excuse to watch all of the episodes again  ;) --Orne 16:38, 8 February 2007 (EST)
  • More or less.  :) --Hardvice (talk) 16:45, 8 February 2007 (EST)

Jessica

I haven't been listing her separately because it's not always clear when she's "appeared", and because ... well, I was going from the synopses mostly and the early ones obviously don't mention her by name, so it just slipped my mind. Do you think we should add her?--Hardvice (talk) 03:18, 9 February 2007 (EST)

• I kind of look at this list as more of an actor list than a character list, though they're listed by characters. (Oh, and Hank will finally get his due for Distractions!) I don't think anybody will look at this list and think, "What?! Wasn't Jessica in that episode? They left her out? I'm so angry I could have my alter ego snap a baton!" ... That said, it wouldn't hurt having her in there, just not necessary in my opinion. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:44, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Layout

Also, the multicolumn layout is pretty much essential since this would otherwise be an incredibly annoying long, thin list, but does anyone think it would be better to have each episode broken into three or four columns, and then have the episodes as rows, like this:

Genesis

Peter Petrelli Simone Deveaux Charles Deveaux Mohinder Suresh Nirand Mr. Bennet Niki Sanders

Micah Sanders Linderman's thugs Claire Bennet Zach Nathan Petrelli Hiro Nakamura Ando Masahashi

Hiro's boss Micah's principal Angela Petrelli Tina Train wreck victim Odessa Fire Chief Isaac Mendez

Sandra Bennet Mr. Muggles Lyle Bennet

I think it would make the page structure better, but it makes it slightly harder to find who you're looking for and makes the order of appearance less clear. Opinions?--Hardvice (talk) 03:29, 9 February 2007 (EST)

• Well, I didn't know you could use headings in a column, so I learned something new. But yes, you're right, the structure would be a bit better with the four columns for one episode, rather than one episode in each of three columns. Good thinking. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:44, 9 February 2007 (EST)
  • Yes, yes, the new format is much easier to read. And cuter, to boot. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:36, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Consideration of Incorporation

I had noticed that the individual episode pages themselves, didn't contain the list of characters that appeared in each episode. When doing research, that is pretty annoying not to have there. I just happened to stumble upon this page, which has the same effect, but isn't listed with the individual episodes.

Could we not add an additional section to each epi, following the Summary Section, that looks something like this:

(Example using Company Man Epi Page)

Character Appearances
Candace, Claire, Claude, Hiro, Kaito Nakamura, Lyle, Matt, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Muggles, Sandra, Ted, The Haitian, and Thompson.

Wouldn't this be more useful and readily helpful for doing research through the episodes, if each epi contained this info?

I'll be willing to do the work to add the section to each Epi, (and a similar application to the GNs as well), if you guys agree this would be a useful enhancement to the Epi pages. --HiroDynoSlayer (talk) 04/5/2007 15:11 (EST)

• If we put them in the individual episodes, I'd like to see them in order of appearance like they are here, rather than in alphabetical order. That's occasionally useful information to have (like the spoilers about Simone's death which referred to someone from "the opening moments of Genesis" dying).--Hardvice (talk) 15:16, 5 April 2007 (EDT)
• I'm not opposed to the idea, but I have some concerns, in no particular order. The episode pages are quite bloated already, and I'm afraid adding character appearances would just make them even more ... portly. Each episode page already links to the appearances page--the link is usually in the trivia, but I think the link could stand to be a bit more prominent (perhaps in the See Also section). If we were to list the characters on the episode page, I would do it in order of appearance, not alphabetical. A search for a particular character is pretty easy to do either by visual scan or by doing a page search (usually ctrl+F on most browsers). — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:25, 5 April 2007 (EDT)