Category Analysis 1

i'd like to point out that episodes 6 (Needles ep), 10 (first Bonzo appearance) and 12 (second Bonzo appearance) are all placed in category 1-B.

obviously, episode 10 and 12 share a primary subject: Mascot (kids). Besides the category designation, episode 6 shares nothing in the score with episode 10 and 12. Here's a summary:

Episode 6 "Introductions" - Injury (needles) -/- intimidation [999 call]

CAT1RB4824-09022024-12022024

Episode 10 "Saturday Night" - Mascot (kids) -/- murder [TV interview]

CAT1RB2275-06082021-009032024

Episode 12 "Getting Off" - Mascot (kids) -/- frenzy [insurance claim]

CAT1RB4728-09032024-13032024

my running theory is that category 1-B (or 1RB in full scores) will pertain to Externals. i think knowing what we know about Bonzo, Needles may be an External that will appear at least one more time.

Episode 6 "Introductions" is when Celia is introduced to the OIAR staff, but the title could also have the double meaning of introducing the staff and the audience to the Externals before we knew what those were.

(( this theory does raise the problem of ink5oul not being categorized as an External, as their episode is scored as category 3-BC if i'm reading the scores correctly. this could mean that my theory is nonsense, or it means ink5oul is some other sort of entity in the universe. maybe the Externals are more inhuman, while other things like ink5oul are more like TMA avatars. this also assumes that a lot of thought went into categories, which could be completely untrue lol ))

every week i keep track of score details and am on the lookout for matches or discrepancies, so i look forward to this week's episode to see what else we get! more data is good :)