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The IMDb has been "improved"
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26 Jan 2006 16:29:05 -0500
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wdstarr...
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It seems that we have on our hands yet another case of somebody
deciding to fix something that wasn't broken. The IMDb seems to
be somewhat reformatted, with every episode of a tv series now
comprising its own entry, the "guest cast" entry for tv shows having
simply vanished, and for actors all appearances are now lumped
Roy Knable...
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It does give them the opportunity to allow individual reviews of
episodes rather than whole shows, which should allow them to compete a
bit more with TV.com. I suspect that's what this is about, competition,
and not just a whim to change.
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together rather than separated into (1) movie roles and cast
membership in tv series and (2) guest appearances on tv shows.
BreadWithSpam...
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It always seemed kind of silly that IMDB lacked an
episode guide. Once one had used it a little while
and figured out that the "guest appearances" covered
that, it wasn't bad or hard to use - just somewhat
less than obvious.
Having an explicit episode guide - maybe ultimately
getting episode plot summaries, air dates, etc. will
be an improvement.
But I'd really like to see the guest apparances come back.
That was one of my favorite things about IMDB.
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And you just *know* that any requests for a "classic format"
option will just be ignored...
shawn...
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Ugh... I can't see why they made that change. It's going to make it
much harder to parse the data when looking at someone's entry. Now you
have to do a bit of additional work reading through the entries to see
what is a series role version an episode role.
As for the Guest Cast entry for TV shows those still exist. You have
to do a bit of additional work though to see them. For "Lost" they
have a new entry called "Season" at the top of the page after the Plot
Outline. Clicking on Season 1 brings to a listing of episode titles in
season one. Clicking on an epsiode title brings you to the entry for
that episode which includes the Episode Cast (guest cast), the Series
Cast and then all of the other people involved in the show.
So they haven't lost any data, but they have made it more difficult to
wdstarr...
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Right, I knew that; I just didn't feel like going into gorey detail
in my whine^W complaint^W report. Yeah, that's it, report...
It's still a pain in the ass. All because some committee of nimwits
never heard about leaving well enough alone.
ANIM8Rfsk...
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Except they haven't been bothering to put up updates and new entries for
weeks, maybe months. Maybe they were busy making things worse.
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ANIM8Rfsk...
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And since I just finished watching SMALLVILLE I went and tried to check
tonight's episode, and it's guest cast is completely wrong, as is it's
episode numbering. Well done guys.
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use.
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Frank Swarbrick...
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Hmm, I just took a look and I rather like it, actually. The only thing
that I'd change offhand is that TV Episode (guest) entries should have
the full date and not just the year.
Anyway, if you click the "TV series" link under Filmographies (on the
left side of the page) you can see just the TV episode guest roles.
wdstarr...
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Even then it's a godawful mess. And how does one do the inverse of
that -- get a listing of movie and regular-cast tv series for an
actor *without* the super-clutter of guest tv apperances?
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