Found On Lost
Lost has so many characters that you never know if you favorite will appear any given week. So it was interesting to see how many episodes each character has appeared in over the first five seasons.
The names are obvious, but I wouldn't necessarily have guessed this order:
1. Jack - 96
2. Kate - 94
3. Sawyer - 92
4. Hurley - 91
5. Locke - 85 (that'll teach him to move away from the group)
6. Sayid - 83
7. Jin - 78 (didn't look like he'd beat Sun not that long ago)
8. Sun - 76
9. Charlie - 61
10. Claire - 59
Wonder if Ben or Juliet will make the top ten by the time the show ends.
Some other interesting data:
Boone, with 25 appearances, beats Eko, Faraday, Ana Lucia and Miles, who all have 21 (though that may change).
Bernard beats Rose 22 to 21.
Most popular non-starring "Other"--Richard, whose 20 beats Tom's 19 and Alex's 17.
Most popular DI member (not counting Ben) is easily Pierre Chang, though that includes a lot of video appearances where he didn't even use his real name.
Charles Widmore has appeared 13 times while his daughter has only been seen 11.
Of the unaffiliated non-regulars, Rousseau (played by two people) is easily the most popular, with 22 appearances, while Christian Shepherd is second with 18. (Will that change?)
Not that many characters have appeared in all five seasons, but Nadia has--she's in five episodes, one a season.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:21 AM
2 Comments:
I'm not sure it makes sense to count all of Nadia's appearances, since some of them were just generic background characters -- Locke inspected her house in Orange County, Charlie saved her from a mugging. In a similar way, Kate's mom has appeared as a waitress in a diner in flashbacks other than Kate's. But there's no plot-related reason for this.
So I wouldn't count them, any more than I would count the unnamed extras that Lostpedia has actually tracked and catalogued.
(I would distinguish this from, e.g., Libby meeting Desmond, or Cassidy knowing both Sawyer and Kate, or Christian meeting tons of people: these are plot points, albeit odd and unexplained plot points.)
Why wouldn't you count them? The actress was hired, came out to Hawaii, did her work, and was paid. She certainly counts it.
Furthermore, Nadia's appearances (unlike Pierre Chang's) had her interacting with lead characters and saying and doing different things each time.
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