Whenever I hear that a MAGA member is also a Star Trek fan:
Even if we filter out the United States, Academy is sitting at a sub 5/10 rating world wide.
If you call the MAGA crtisicms what you want, but after the fact there are plenty of legit ones remaining.
Are you seriously suggesting that IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes weren’t review bombed globally?
Any rating that has a distribution of 38% 1/10s has no credibility whatsoever, zilch.
And the alleged non US ratings aren’t vettable.
You think MAGA is inteligent enough.to review bomb foreigner reviewers?
MAGA is an American thing, but there are plenty of people sharing their dumb opinions outside of the US.
Also, MAGA nutters aren’t actually less intelligent than anyone else, just cowardly and resentful. They don’t want to think about what’s causing the problems in the world, because then they might have to reconsider parts of their worldview and that’s scary. So they want someone to just swoop in and fix the problems without fundamentally changing anything, or failing that, gives them the feeling they have permission from society to lash out against anything they consider “abnormal” and is therefore a potential cause of the problems. And so they’ll resent anyone who criticises them for that or tries to undermine that feeling of societal permission they want or already have.
But not wanting to think about certain things is not the same as being unable to, and any intellectual capacity not spent on actually thinking about real problems and how to solve them can then be spent on how to create the impression that their opinion is dominant and therefore they’re not doing anything wrong.
Anyway, the point is that while there are definitely legitimate criticisms to be had about the newer Star Trek shows, your metric isn’t very useful for demonstrating that. To begin with, why hide behind numbers at all? It just makes it look like you’re trying convince people that your criticisms carry more weight because the world agrees with you.
why hide behind numbers at all?
Oh, okay let’s keep spending millions per episode so a few thousand people can enjoy the show. That’s absolutely how show business works.
Numbers are critical and a key indicator of mainstream success.
As I’ve stated multiple times already low viewer count combined with high review bombs indicates a disconnect between what’s being produced and what the audience wants.
No one here is complaining about legitimate criticisms.
(But also an aggregated numeric value is not a criticism at all, it’s a reductive metric that means very little and I don’t understand why people ascribe so much value to these things).
But also an aggregated numeric value is not a criticism at all
How’s that? If 10 of your coworkers rated your job performance as 5/10; would you think that’s not a critical indicator of a failing performance?
How about viewer count, shall we go look that up?
It could be a terrible indicator of your actual performance, if five of your coworkers rated you a ten honestly, but the other five rated you a zero because they hated the Black Lives Matter sign in your cubicle.
Yeah and if it had absolutely nothing to do with the black lives matter sign, and the person inserted the black lives matter sign as a defense, then what is it?
