TV: The Last of Us (HBO)

[Dubi Doo]

The show is really struggling without Joel. It doesn't work with the two girls being the predominant storyline, they don't have chemistry and it's boring tbh. I'm just not invested into their characters and the arc.
I'll stick with it but the greatness of Season 1 is such a distant memory now. Too bad

Once I saw he was out, I just gave it up.

 

[Osprey]

A lot of those are from people not liking the actress of Abby and Bella. It's just highlights how the quality of a tv episode or a movie has nothing to with the ratings there. It's become a rarity to find something there which isn't review bombed. And I still stand by my opinion that if they went from a 1-10 scale to a 4-10 scale, it would help.

That episode (E2) has a 9.4, tied for the most of any episode of this series, and most people seem to agree that it's one of the best of the series, if not the best, so the rating seems to match the quality. Also, IMDb already gives less weight to low ratings. For example, the unweighted average for the current episode is 6.7, whereas the official average is 7.3. I just ran the numbers and 7.3 is exactly what you get when you replace all of the 1-3/10 ratings with 4/10 ones, so they're basically already doing a 4-10 scale, like you want.

Anybody who has actually watched the episodes would say even if they didn't like them, they weren't 1/10 quality either. A fair negative review for these episodes would be like a ~3-4/10 type of review.

3000+ 1/10s are clearly people reviewing with an agenda. Half of them probably didn't watch it at all.

And again I don't think it's been very good despite wanting to like it. Personally I'd say the last 2 episodes have been like 5.5/10 type quality. Just extremely meh.

As I just pointed out, the 1/10 ratings aren't impacting the average any more than if they were all 4/10s. What are skewing the average, though, are all of the 9/10 and 10/10 ratings. If we really care about fair, unbiased ratings and feel that these episodes are only 5.5/10 quality, we should have a bigger problem with all of those really high ratings that do a lot more to skew the average than the really low ratings that are barely even being counted.

 

[Jussi]

That episode (E2) has a 9.4, tied for the most of any episode of this series, and most people seem to agree that it's one of the best of the series, if not the best, so the rating seems to match the quality. Also, IMDb already gives less weight to low ratings. For example, the unweighted average for the current episode is 6.7, whereas the official average is 7.3. I just ran the numbers and 7.3 is exactly what you get when you replace all of the 1-3/10 ratings with 4/10 ones, so they're basically already doing a 4-10 scale, like you want.

As I just pointed out, the 1/10 ratings aren't impacting the average any more than if they were all 4/10s. What are skewing the average, though, are all of the 9/10 and 10/10 ratings. If we really care about fair, unbiased ratings and feel that these episodes are only 5.5/10 quality, we should have a bigger problem with all of those really high ratings that do a lot more to skew the average than the really low ratings that are barely even being counted.

The main point was there's no verfication process what so ever at IMDB.

 

[Osprey]

The main point was there's no verfication process what so ever at IMDB.

I don't think that it really matters with TV shows and other streaming content. When something is easily accessible at home and cheap or even free, people are going to give it a chance. There's no reason to believe that any meaningful number of people are rating these episodes without having seen them. If a verification process were somehow implemented to weed out the insignificant number that didn't watch it, far more people who did watch it wouldn't have their opinions counted. Also, the average would likely skew heavily towards favorable because verified, paying customers tend to be more invested than those who watch content on others' accounts or pirate it. I think that having a huge sample size gives a more accurate picture of the general reaction to each episode than a much smaller sample of only verified, paying customers would.

 

[Sad People]

I didnt mind the episode. Probably my least favorite of the season so far. Enjoyed every scene with Isaac in it and i look forward to learning more about his character, hopefully. Wasnt the biggest of the theater scene i just feel like the writing could of been so much better. Still very much invested in the show though.

 

[x Tame Impala]

I'm surprised ratings mean so much to people. It's so obviously imperfect and I don't know why it gets used as a stamp of approval. "Battle of the Bastards" is (I think) the highest rated Game of Thrones episode and I completely disagree it's a nearly 10/10 product.

I haven't watched this season but I'm not surprised at all to see people liking it less. TLOU pt 2 as a game uses Joel's death as a launching point for moral relativism (lame) as well as Ellie learning about the effects of revenge. The dynamic is just different. Someone in this thread said Joel wasn't the main character of the first game, that is completely false. He absolutely was and that's why what happens to him was so impactful. So taking him out of the picture of what I'm assuming is a show with worse writing than the game was always going to drag the season down.

Maybe I'll watch S2 with my wife at some point but honestly we both prefer to just play the games together again.