User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-38288735-20190125173637/@comment-38288735-20191101180757

I am now only a month behind in Big Finish audios and have some more thoughts in regard to this.

I still generally hold to the rules I already proposed. However, I have slightly more apprehension about the number of "featured" characters in some stories. Interestingly, one of the worst offenders is the very first of Big Finish's Doctor Who audios, "The Sirens of Time." As of The Legacy of Time, Knights of Velyshaa, the President, Raldeth, Sirens of Time, the Temperon, Time Lords, and Vansell would all be featured. It's not that this is quite so many ("Many Happy Returns" has far more), but a couple of them are entirely forgettable.

Overall, I still believe that there is no consistent way to set a limit on how many people can be featured, but I'm a bit more willing to be convinced otherwise if anyone has any better suggestions.

I do believe that my Rule 4 should be altered to exclude from the tables characters who are in 90% or more of a series' stories, though. Josh fits that amount of stories in UNIT (Kate and Osgood are in every story), and it would mean that we can get away with not listing Romana II in Gallifrey.

I would love to get some more feedback on all this, though!