I have some episodes which I’ve marked as having watched/completed and given a rating for…but I haven’t watched it in its entirety. I’ve seen clips, moments, reviews, spoilers, summaries, read the wikis, seen the edits and rated it based on my own opinions on that, because I am pretty certain I won’t enjoy it.
And to not be misinterpreted, I don’t mean rating something that is “bad” that you haven’t watched, but rating it instead based on not wanting to watch it at all and the details around it?
The completionist inside me is kind of angry but I’m also pretty confident my opinion would be unchanged, if not worse.
Just wondering if anyone else does something similar?
Apologies if this question has been asked before in a different way/ thread =)
I don’t see why I wouldn’t. If I attempted to watch, listen, or read something and it couldn’t keep my attention enough for me to complete it, that’s a judge of its quality and I’ll rate it as it deserves. I’m not going to force myself to complete something that isn’t interesting to me.
That’s how I feel too but then I think I haven’t given it a fair enough chance and end up switching between the two- but it’s nice to hear other people don’t think it’s entirely irrational
Reviews aren’t indelible. You can always rate it from your first impression and later, if you decide to interact with it again, change your rating. But I know forcing myself to complete something I’m not into will potentially lead to a lower rating because it would feel like a chore rather than something I’m supposed to enjoy.
It’s not always the right time for a particular show or story to “click” with you. I’m sure we all have something we once disliked but came to love months or years later. But I’m not going to withhold my review that long xD
I only rate things I’ve actually consumed fully. For me, I can’t give an opinion on something I haven’t seen through to the end. It would be an unfair rating. I never know, there might be a cool thing, or something, that bumps it a little.
Well… Not exactly. If, say, I went over 70% of an audio and it bores the hell outta me and I’ve no intention on complting it, it gets a 2/5. But if something seems not my thing based on reviews and clips and such, I’ll skip it. It doesn’t feel right knowing my “hours watched” is not exactly right
I rate and review things I’ve fully completed. Sometimes the ending to a story can alter my perception of it for the better or the worse. Stories are built to have a beginning, a middle and an end, with the three parts forming one whole.
I have a rule for myself where I’d have to be like, 65-ish percent through something when I give up to rate it (I’m pretty sure even then I’m just remembering stuff from letterboxd and not any doctor who stuff?). For me to give up at that point I’d have to have a really big issue with it. There are a few serials I found uninteresting in the first episode or two that I loved by the end, and it’s really really rare for me to actually fully give up on something I’ve started. I’m far more likely to stop, plan to finish it at some point in the future, and get distracted by some other Doctor Who thing until I lose my place and have to start it all over.
Generally I complete everything before rating it, especially because there are, to me, very few doctor who stories that aren’t at least mediocre. And those I can just do in the background. I have some reconstructions that I have rated but only watched in part and read the wiki about because when I first started with classic they couldn’t hold my attention at all. I’ll come back to them at some point though. I also rated the Lost in Time game without knowing the full story because I definitely put in enough hours there. I’m much more of a person who likes to actually complete things, but if you’ve given it a genuine try and found halfway through that you are not having fun, I think it’s only fair you rate it because otherwise the average gets unfairly high
I think, to properly rate something you need to have seen it all. Enough people round here comment on how something may be one rating till a final scene or one aspect drags it down. So vice versa, I think a story should be allowed to show you everything before you make a judgement. I was wavering on a 3/5 for Joy to the World but I really liked the Star of Bethlehem ending so bumped it up. If I’d given up on it before that point, it would have missed out.
But then, that’s just me - there’s no right or wrong way of rating and reviewing ultimately. I rarely care what other people have rated things anyway (except for Delta and the Bannermen obvs).
Rating things based off genuinely trying to watch/listen/read them and not being able to finish them is one thing, but I can’t even imagine what the benefit is of rating something based off how you think you would feel about it from things like out of context clips and other people’s reviews. There’s always a skip button if you want to mark it in some way, but it seems odd to rate something that you don’t even attempt to actually experience for yourself.
Yes, this sounds strange to me. The point of rating and reviewing is to express one’s personal opinion of a story, and how could one have such an opinion if one has never actually experienced it, or even parts of it, firsthand?
See, arguments like this are what I also agree with, and though not purely relying on other people’s opinions, for some things I’ve seen enough clips/read enough to form a picture in my head. And then engaging fully would probably lessen my experience if it feels like a chore.
Knowing the plot I may use it in the background when doing other things. But I also feel like I’ve engaged with it (not through solely reviews, mind) enough over the years to also rate, hence skipping also feels unnatural if I understand everything about the plots.
I think for only one of these stories I rated a 1, as I saw plenty of spoilers when it released on TikTok, and just wasn’t interested in the premise. The rest are rated higher than 1.5. Still feels like unfair ratings but they’d all have lower ratings if I ended up watching them entirely-
I don’t know why, but any time I familiarize myself with a certain piece of media that has unanimously glowing reviews and then decide to watch/read/listen to it on my own, I tend to never like it as much as the consensus. This is opposite to when I engage with the medium first, then read reviews afterwards; I have a greater tendency to fall in line.
And if that is reversed, and I read that everyone is lambasting a piece of media, I tend to end up liking it (or otherwise not minding it) as much as the public lol.
All that to say, I don’t put too much stock in people’s opinions unless we have a history of being on the same wavelength.
This is exactly the same for me, and it’s why I built the feature to hide rating scores until you’ve rated it yourself. Because they can affect your judgement.
I definitely feel like I rate certain Wilderness Years things lower than most other people…
I see what you mean. Personally I am already somebody who doesn’t rate that much compared to what I watch, read, listen and whatnot. Simply because I can be quite indecisive, you don’t want to know how many Times some Ratings of mine have changed… That said I do get why people would rate something even if they haven’t completely watched it. After all if you watched or listened to it for a good chunk, and it doesn’t match with you, it’s only fair to give up on it for the Moment at least. That said, an ending can alter your Opinion for better or for worse, but then again, I wouldn’t blame anybody for going this Route.
It’s a different Thing if you write a Review for something and present it in a Way where it isn’t obvious that you haven’t experienced all of it, but then again, I doubt anybody wouldn’t be at least transparent about not having the full Picture with a Piece of Media.
If I see it I rate it. I rarely write full reviews but if its a seperate thing on here I’ll rate it after watching / reading. Always try to go into something with an open mind, and have quite enjoyed things I thought I’d hate before
