A new website, Graph TV, automatically graphs IMDB ratings of TV episodes over time. ( http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com ). While IMDB ratings are suspect, the results are still interesting. TOS: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0060028 TAS: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0069637 TNG: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455 DS9: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0106145 Voyager: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0112178 Enterprise: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0244365 The number at the end of the URL is the IMBD code number for the series. Note: Thanks, dg1379. Fixed it.
I think this is the one you want for Enterprise http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0244365 Still pretty neat
I don't agree with the IMDb ratings of the actual series, but the episode ratings are pretty accurate.
And there you have it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...eneration-is-better-than-the-original-series/
I'm surprised by the Battlestar Galactica trends. I thought it was widely considered late season 1 - early season 3 was the heyday of the show, but the ratings put season 4 as the highest. I thought season 4 was considered the weakest. For long running TV series it's hard to take average ratings too seriously. Shows with 26 episode seasons have such varied writing staffs that there's going to be wide swings in quality between episodes. To me, episodic shows are best judged by their best episodes, not all their episodes. Especially in the age of Netflix, a series is just as good as its greatest subset of episodes. Don't like Shades of Grey? In your world it doesn't exist, so it doesn't count.
Interesting. Many series go up over time. Enterprise is doing well in retrospect apparently. DS9 is all over the place!!! Most large polls bother me. Too many people rate episodes in their mind as "good" or "bad" rather than considering a balance, so we see a lot of "A" grades, but also a lot of "F" grades or the equivalent number grade. RAMA
Polls and such are funny barometers of what's good/bad or anything in-between. It's one of the many reasons I don't like Facebook: the 'like' button. Someone posts a cute picture of their kid, fine. But when someone posts a missing dog, or abused child story...it just doesn't seem right, and inaccurately represents one's feelings, to click 'like'. If a poll of annual incomes polls 500 people who earn one dollar a year, and 500 who make ten million dollars a year, the average income according to the "scientific poll" would be five million dollars a year. Is that accurate to the reality? The graphs shown here aren't quite as bad as that, but still...