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It really doesn't make any sense NOT to use Option 2. You have a LOT less opportunity for "But this is different!" cases, and makes it simple and easy without any argument for every episode.

If you think it's too much work, then don't do it - leave it to those who are willing to do the work.

Simple.

That isn't the point, and you know it.  Why is everybody all of a sudden so willing to go the easy route with all the duplication it entails, when initially everybody thought (and stills thinks for all I know) #1 looked better.  It is certainly easier to use from a lookup standpoint, in my opinion.

I disagree... especially with you wanting to put recurring cast that is not credited in every episode in with the main cast... that way seriously hinders the lookup for those actors.... you have no idea which episodes to look for them in!

Then you don't understand what 'recurring cast' is.  Recurring means 'over and over' as in they appear in episodes numerous times.  By the way, MAIN cast members (to use your def) can also not be in every episode and still be listed as cast.  Same thing from the other direction.  Main cast and recurring cast are the same if they are credited at the front of the show.

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Main Cast:  Those cast members who are the primary characters and are usually listed at the beginning of the show in some way, which may also include recurring guest stars.

If they are just recurring guest stars... then they are not credited in every episode... but from what I read here... you want to put them in with the main cast section even if they aren't credited in every episode.

You still need to go by the credits... if they are not credited for every episode they should only be credited for the episodes they are in!

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Remember "Melrose Place"?  Heather Lockleer was a regular cast member for two seasons at least, but was always credited as 'Guest Starring Heather Lockleer..."  Now, some people would say she isn't main cast because of that 'guest' thingy.  I'd say they're full of it.

Tell you what.  Forget 'recurring cast.'  Put anybody who is credited for whatever reason at the front in the main cast section, and everybody else in the episode sections.

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Plus, it creates problems in another area:  when you double click on an actor, it throws up their picture and a list of all the profiles they are in in your collection.  I can just see the list for say, Sarah Michelle Gellar.  7 seasons worth of episodes (she was in nearly every one) clogging things up.  Pick any show with several seasons, and its the same deal.

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But then you open up another can of worms, because some shows change the opening cast on an episode-by-episode basis.

It makes no sense not to use Option #2. I have yet to see a single logical argument against using Option #2.

Except that all the extra entries create a cast list that is already nearly impossible to work with when looking for something because its so huge.

Plus, it creates problems in another area:  when you double click on an actor, it throws up their picture and a list of all the profiles they are in in your collection.  I can just see the list for say, Sarah Michelle Gellar.  7 seasons worth of episodes (she was in nearly every one) clogging things up.  Pick any show with several seasons, and its the same deal.

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Plus, it creates problems in another area:  when you double click on an actor, it throws up their picture and a list of all the profiles they are in in your collection.  I can just see the list for say, Sarah Michelle Gellar.  7 seasons worth of episodes (she was in nearly every one) clogging things up.  Pick any show with several seasons, and its the same deal.

This will not change whether option 1 or 2 is used. If you click on SMG, you get a list of each profile she is credited in, not the total number of credits she receives across all profiles. Whether she is listed once per profile, as in option 1, or four times as in option 2, you'll still get the same result when you double-click on her name.

It's a matter of degree, Nadja.  Once for each disc of episodes, total maybe 30 vice once for each episode, total approaching 150 across all 7 seasons.  Which one would you rather wade through?

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It's a matter of degree, Nadja.  Once for each disc of episodes, total maybe 30 vice once for each episode, total approaching 150 across all 7 seasons.  Which one would you rather wade through?

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John...

Have you even use the feature before you argue a point?

I have done 5 season of MASH so far, with 3 disc each season.

Alan Alda is listed ONE time per disc.

Not one time per epiosde per disc.

TRY SOMETHING, THEN ARGUE A POINT, otherwise you look like an idiot.