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Gryphonadmin
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07-30-03, 02:12 PM (EDT)
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"Lies, damn lies, and..."
 
   ... some statistics about the "regular series" (Exodus 1:1 - Exodus 3:9), which I compiled in response to an email from someone complaining that Apotheosis Now was "awfully short":


Longest episode: Exodus 3:8, 212,231 bytes.
Shortest episode: Exodus 2:9, 44,020 bytes.
Total length, Exodus 1: 465,448 bytes.
Average episode length, Exodus 1: 51,716 bytes.
Total length, Exodus 2: 569,252 bytes.
Average episode length, Exodus 2: 63,250 bytes.
Total length, Exodus 3: 1,142,021 bytes.
Average episode length, Exodus 3: 126,891 bytes.
Total length, NXE regular series: 2,176,721 bytes.
Average episode length, overall: 80,619 bytes.

(Averages rounded to nearest byte; Exodus 3 figures don't include
Exodus 3:0, which was basically the inaugural Bonus Theater! segment.)

By comparison, Apotheosis Now is 540,127 bytes long - longer than
the entirety of Exodus 1, almost as long as the entirety of Exodus 2,
a little less than half the length of Exodus 3 (and episode lengths in
Exodus 3 got rather out of control, as the statistics above show), and
more than twice the length of the longest regular episode. If there
were such a thing as an "average-length" episode, even accounting for
Exodus 3's length problems, 4.26 of them would fit in the length of the
movie. (Heh... I just noticed that, and it's kind of an amusing
coincidence. If NXE was a half-hour TV series, that'd make the movie
about two hours long... which is just as it should be. :)

(oh, and my net admin adds, "the bandwidth spike on the T1 when NXE:AN
hit says 'no, it wasn't normal-sized'" :)

My correspondent replied that I ought to post those stats someplace for others to see, and, upon reflection, I agree, so here they are.

--G.

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1. "RE: Lies, damn lies, and..."
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   >(and episode lengths in
>Exodus 3 got rather out of control, as the statistics above
>show)

I think this was partly because of the BT! segments at the end of most of the episodes, but they definitely got longer as the series went on - IIRC I remember thinking that the season 3 episodes averaged around twice that of the first season (not that I minded... :)

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