Honestly I feel like sometimes when you just average out the scores between the critics and the user scores you get something more accurate. What was it, like 85% fresh from critics and then 15% from users. If we're being honest, both of those scores seem very suspect.
But average them out to a 50? Well, you know that seems pretty on point. On the internet people love histrionics, especially nerd outrage for stuff like Star Wars, games, etc. It's almost like a badge of honor to see how upset you can get over it. You're literally getting several people who rant prolifically without even watching the show. Nobody has to watch anything. I've never seen the Twilight movies because they look like garbage. I assume they are, but I dont go into Twilight threads saying "Let me tell why this is garbage and why the themes of the movies are all intricately woven with a political agenda". As opposed to something like "yeah, I watched the first 2 and they were garbage for these reasons, so I assume the same is true for the rest of them. So fuck that noise". The latter position I can understand, the former is just choosing ignorance but somehow thinking you're the most insightful person in the discussion.
For me the first two episodes hovered over about 5.5-6. Bad execution but a mystery is a mystery and set ups are usually far more interesting than pay-offs. Then episode 3 was absolute garbage tier, so the entire show is around a 4.5-5 for the first 3 episodes. So it would take something miraculous in the next 5 episodes for me to call the show anything other than sub-par. However, it still feels like the showrunner is trying to make a decent Star Wars show, just doesnt have the talent to pull it off. Theres nothing terribly wrong with the ideas in the show, but the execution is clumsy and amateurish.
So even though I dont think the show is bad because of all this non-existent politcal agenda within it (so far), its certainly bad in no small part due to the fact that the showrunner obviously did get the job due to diversity, so political agenda is certainly somewhat to blame. So I dunno why the outlets dont complain about that as opposed to overreacting about superfluous crap that doesnt even matter I.E. : "Oh, they call it the thread! STAR WARS DESTROYED!". OMG shut the fuck up, you moron.
