Quoting Corne:

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- The Hours (2002) in which the cast is divided between three time periods.

I think that when the cast divider isn't part of a role it can be considered an episode divider.

Can't agree on either of these statements.

First off, in the film The Hours, two of the time periods actually cross over. At the end of the film, an older Julianne Moore makes an appearance in the Meryl Streep timeline, showing one completely cohesive film that is not separated completely by timelines, but is in fact one flowing timeline in a single film. Episode dividers to me signal a complete change. A brand new episode. Something that was filmed completely separate, and is meant to be viewed completely separate, from what came before or after it. The Hours doesn't fit episodic dividers AT ALL in my opinion. It can't really... with the crossover in storylines, how can it?

The second statement I can't agree with because of my explanation for the first statement.

You said after this post that you can't see how the story title, the name of a location or a time period can be anything other than an episode divider. I can. Easily. Just because a film may have dividers of Paris, Berlin and Toronto doesn't mean they should be separated by episode dividers. They're not episodes within the film, they're simply groupings of cast within the same film, which easily signals to me to use group dividers.

I think the jump from "TV show episodes, distinct films" to "or other logical episodic distinction" is WAY too big of a leap to make when talking about headings within the cast of a single film. We're being told to use an episode divider for DISTINCT FILMS, but then all of the sudden a Paris divider in the credits is a logical episodic distinction, when a few words earlier we're told to use that same divider for completely separate films? That doesn't sit right in my head and I'd happily vote no to any such instance of that being submitted, without question.

The rules should be clearer then...

Quoting Corne:

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FYI The three main characters in The Hours Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep aren't credited under the time line header but are credited separately in front of the time line dividers. So that's not a valid argument. All other cast don't cross-over.

I actually think it makes it a more valid arguement.  With that, the credits are basically saying "here's the three main characters from our film, they head up three different timelines, but we're crediting them together because it's a single cohesive film about these three women, no matter which timeline they appear in" and in that case would definitely signal simply different groupings of people under the different years. If the three main characters weren't seen fit to split up by specific episodic dividers, why would the rest of the cast? They're simply grouped into how they appear in a single, cohesive, flowing timeline film, not episodically divided where the stories aren't related at all.