Episode ratings for season 3: Strong season!

[Romulan_spy]

So I tallied up the average rating for each episode from the episode polls. I thought I would share what I got:

Ep 1 "The Next Generation" 8.39 (276 responses)
Ep 2 "Disengage" 7.97 (244 responses)
Ep 3 "17 Seconds" 8.86 (236 responses)
Ep 4 "No Win Scenario" 9.07 (252 responses)
Ep 5 "Imposter" 9.04 (218 responses)
Ep 6 "Bounty" 8.79 (226 responses)
Ep 7 "Dominion" 7.88 (233 responses)
Ep 8 "Surrender" 8.40 (231 responses)
Ep 9 "Vox" 8.74 (329 responses)
Ep 10 "The Last Generation" 8.87 (345 responses)

Season average: 8.60
Highest rating: 9.07 (Episode 4 "No Win Scenario")
Lowest rating: 7.88 (Episode 7 "Dominion")

Here is a graph of the average ratings for each episode:

Overall, I think season 3 was very well received. The fact that the lowest rating was still a 7.88 is really good IMO. The season average was 8.60 is also very good. We do see a dip for episode 2 and episode 7 but overall, the ratings remained pretty consistently strong. The middle of the season (episodes 3-6) was especially strong in the high 8s to low 9s. The finale was also strong in the high 8s.

 

[NCC-73515]

My rankings...

 

[James Cole]

Here is a graph of the average ratings for each episode:

If you feel like running seasons 1 and 2 as well...

 

[NCC-73515]

Would also be interesting to compare this to the other new shows

 

[James Cole]

The Ringer, which is some kind of sports site that also hosted the podcast that led to Pod Save America (basically people from the Obama administration that did a lot of Trump opposition content) somehow also have this really interesting article about how PICARD has the greatest change of rankings season per season on IMDB.

I can't hotlink to the graphs, but they do a good job visualizing it.

It doesn’t take a Betazoid to sense a surge in support of this magnitude, but it does take some number crunching to determine whether Picard’s reversal of fan fortunes is one of the all-time TV course corrections. With help from data scientist Harish Swaminathan, I analyzed IMDb user ratings collected by Rating Graph. Our sample—which pulled in all multi-season scripted TV shows with at least 500 user ratings per episode, on average—consisted of 564 series and more than 2,000 combined seasons. Sure enough, no other qualifying series posted a season-over-season increase in average score that could rival Picard’s climb from 6.6 in Season 2 to 8.2 in Season 3. In fact, no other qualifying series came close, as shown by this histogram of every season-over-season change

Picard’s ascent in perceived quality is so steep that even if we remove the constraint of consecutive seasons and simply look for the biggest rating hikes between any season and any subsequent season, it still easily tops the list. In other words, no qualifying series—including famous slow starters such as The Office, Breaking Bad, Schitt’s Creek, Seinfeld, Parks and Recreation, or even Star Trek: TNG itself—has ever raised its game in spectators’ eyes as substantially from one season to another over any part of its run as Picard did in adjacent seasons that were shot back-to-back.

There are a few more massive drop-offs in average user rating than there are big bumps, too. That little bar all by its lonesome past the tick mark at plus-2? That’s Picard. (The even lonelier outlier near minus-4: the final season of House of Cards.)

BTW, check out the original UK HOUSE OF CARDS. Amazing!

 

[Oddish]

They learned from their mistakes.

 

[God's Starship]

I loved most of the season but Ep 4 was def head and shoulders above the rest! I almost wish the season was 12-15 eps, throw in a couple more "side missions" into the story where the crew could solve a dilemma, explore strange new beings.

 

[Reanok]

I really enjoyed watching all the shows for this season they were really exciting and I wanted to find out what happened next .with the threat of the Changelings and the Borg how the TNG crew was going to stop the villians.

 

[vulcancicada]

I would have been way less annoyed about the plot if they let me binge watch it. Just saying. Nevertheless, it was like a long TNG movie which I will happily rewatch for nostalgia.

 

[Campe]

I will admit, since the final episode aired, I rewatched the season finishing today over lunch. In some ways, I think it was better than watching week to week. In others, I’ve found some other flaws. I still think it takes a sharp dip after “Imposters” and doesn’t really come out of it until the end. I think Jack is obnoxious watching all the way through. His a schtick was a little less intense watching week to week. But I will say the nostalgia bits were a lot better this time around.

I had forgotten that they’d set up a memory loss subplot with Picard in the first few episodes that really went nowhere. (Misremembering a Deep Space station number. Forgetting to blow out one of the transport inhibitors.)

The mystery box isn’t great. But I don’t think it’s any worse than any other mystery box Star Trek has tried recently.

I think the season still lands at a 6 for me. But perhaps some of the episodes themselves have fluctuated a bit.

 

[Timofnine]

I have created a graph which represents my rankings of every episode and specific plot points within Picard season 3, tallied up against other TrekBBS users scores, Nielsen ratings, and wider audience appreciation indices. I have shaped this chart like a galaxy to simplify.

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