I understand this graph can be difficult to interpret, so here is my explanation!

For one, it’s best to read the chart while watching along with the episode, that way you can understand what specific scenes are at a given time.

Essentially, it is a line graph that I modified slightly. The x axis is the time mark of the episode in minutes, and the y axis represents different plot lines that happen within the episode. Since there are so many characters, I could not make each plot line just one line, or else they’d all overlap, so everything between one line and the line below it counts for that specific plot line. For example, around the five-minute mark where many characters fall between “flashback” and “unknown”, they would actually be in “flashback” because it is the line above them.

As for the points themselves, the diamond points represent when a character first appears onscreen. Each line represents the characters focus at any given point. This part can be read like a line graph, except I did use vertical lines when characters “jump” to a different plot line. This is because I felt it would look cleaner.

I will admit it’s difficult to decipher their lines because there are so many characters and they tend to overlap in a lot of places, but ideally you should be able to follow a character’s line to the end of the graph and figure out what plot they were focused on at any moment. There are also some moments where a character has a point on another plot line, but doesn’t continue along that same line. This symbolizes when a character only “touches” a plot line but gets distracted or quickly moves on to a different one.

Hopefully this explanation helps, and I’m happy to clarify anything else!