For example, a show has 5 seasons, the first 4 are amazing, but the fifth one is rubbish.
Do you: -
A. Rate it highly because when it was good, it was very good.
B. Take an average.
C. Rate it poorly because that was your most recent experience.
I've struggled with this same question myself when I was trying to rate Highlander: The Series, which had an abysmal final season.
Ideally, you would rate each episode individually and take the average of all of them, but honestly rating every episode is kind of a pain in the ass.
So a feasible alternative would be to rate every season individually, and then take the average of all the seasons.
I haven’t got the time or patience to rate every episode of a series, lol.
shareNone of the above. You give a nuanced rating that sounds the way you describe in your example. People think about most shows in that way. It was good or great, then it ended poorly or "jumped the shark". How many stick the landing vs suffering from last seasonitis.?
shareI tend to average it out.
shareThe problem is more complex than that. Should you rate individual episodes and calculate the season average? Do you rate individual seasons and calculate the series average? Do you just rate is as a whole? Also if the show is awful and you didn't finish it, can you still rate it?
shareI'm not very good at rating things to be honest. When I really like something I tend to get overly enthusiastic and ignore some faults.
For instance, The Wire and Game Of Thrones were two terrific, nearly perfect series yet both had somewhat shaky final seasons but I still appreciate all the entertainment they gave me. I suppose a 9/10 would be appropriate for those shows but dammit it all, I want to give each show a Gold Star of excellence even though they sort of staggered to the finish line.
Roadhouse is another example. Patrick Swayze kicking the shit out of hillbillies in a ridiculously lawless town with his sidekick Sam Elliot, aka 'The Toughest Bouncer In America' lol, would seem like a big swing and a miss but hells bells was that a great fun movie or what!?!
I think I'm not disciplined enough to be a fair critic, I consider Conan The Barbarian (82) to be one of the greatest movies ever made and NOBODY would agree with this:(
I guess I just hype the stuff I love.
Conan is a favourite of mine too. The random camel punch is epic!
shareB.
shareThat would be my go to.
shareAlso, sometimes I will rate each episodes (more for anthologies) then make an average for the season and then an average for the entire show based on the season’s ratings.
Quite complex. The common man couldn’t grasp all this high level math concept.
I’d end up spending more time on the rating, than on the actual watching, lol.
shareSeriously though, this is what I like about this site; I can watch a movie that’s 1h30 then I will spend 15 minutes writing my review and rating it then I will come here and read other peoples comments on the film board. Then I’m gonna share my review, I’m going to do a little bit more reading and use it as a mystery movie in the guessing game if I really liked it…
So I just turned a movie into a whole experience!
The first thing I do is go to the relevant Moviechat page and read any of the old threads that interest me; I leave comments too.
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