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Wow. I’ll have to read that. Figured it would be a glowing review.
Edit: He and I actually have many of the same criticisms. Interesting. He and I pretty typically are on opposite ends of the spectrum.
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Yeah, this isn't unique to the new shows either, he's harsh on all the shows.
The highest rated show on his site by episode average rating is Lower Decks, at 5.37. It also has less episodes than most other shows.
Voyager is second at at 5.32.
Quell suprise'. The days of me taking EAS seriously are long past.
For him trek kinda stopped in 1999.
I remember the early days of his anger building around the time Enterprise debuted and he started getting hyper nitpicky over things like the design of the Klingon ships and how they should all be smooth heads
I remember him summarily giving Take Me Out To The Holosuite a 0 or 1 rating solely because he was offended by the very concept of a baseball episode, dismissing it as a weird American thing that is 100% incomprehensible to anyone outside the States by default.
And that’s his own narrow view also considering the Japanese and Chinese also like baseball for example.
When I do a DS9 rewatch, I always skip that episode. I hate hate hate baseball. One reason I can't stand baseball (and golf)? When I was growing up, DS9 aired on a local station on Saturdays that would delay or join in progress episodes if the golf or baseball ran over, especially circa seasons 4-6. So I was stuck waiting and watching for sometimes over 90 minutes just wanting the damn thing to end, and hoping the episode would air intact... or have to wait for the repeat or hope the antenna reception was decent enough I could at least watch it in black and white from the neighboring TV market.
And every series and season has an episode like it. Flaming it because it’s unreasonable an intentional audience would identify with baseball is silly.
afterall, why would an international audience identify with a American Wild West town in Fistfull of Data’s
I'm not a sports fan, though I recorded plenty for several years as a Videographer, but even I liked "Take Me Out to the Holosuite".
It still strikes me as so odd that EAS would give most Star Trek episodes a 5 out of 10. So most episodes are "meh"? I think in a "good" season, the majority of episodes are 7-8, you have a handful that are 5-6, another handful that are 9-10, and a few freak accidents that are below a 5. I think if you like a show, or a franchise, the average should be somewhere in the low 7s.
It still strikes me as so odd that EAS would give most Star Trek episodes a 5 out of 10. So most episodes are "meh"? I think in a "good" season, the majority of episodes are 7-8, you have a handful that are 5-6, another handful that are 9-10, and a few freak accidents that are below a 5. I think if you like a show, or a franchise, the average should be somewhere in the low 7s.
Also I'm a Brit, with absolutely no interest in baseball (or any sports really). But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate fictional representations of them. I certainly enjoyed the episode at the time. I always loved when the old series took a break from the drama and went for a comic relief episode.
Thr game itself was fine but the Vulcan captain took some of the fun out.
For a franchise of nearly 800 episodes and 13 movies, maintaining an average of 7/10 is goddamn phenomenal.
Absolutely bonkers.
On the other hand:
Doesn't it make sense for the the average episode to be...average? I'm sure he's not actually using any kind of formal grading method for assigning his scores, but in principle a normalized distribution should have most of [whatever] falling in the middle of the curve.
Not to turn this into the EAS thread, this will be my last post on it, but these are his averages for the pre-Discovery series
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-episodes.htm
TOS: 4.68
TNG: 5.23
DS9: 5.21
VOY: 5.32
ENT: 4.56
Pre-ST09 movies: 6.30
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/index-episodes.htm
TOS: 4.68
TNG: 5.23
DS9: 5.21
VOY: 5.32
ENT: 4.56
Pre-ST09 movies: 6.30
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