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TV Tuesday: Meta and Ranking

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Do you enjoy getting into the weeds with your TV viewing? Do you find viewer rankings of shows to be helpful? Or do you find thinking too much about what you watch ruins your fun?

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I also use Wikipedia constantly for shows, particularly since there may now be a number with the same name and they might be old or recent (or reboots!) It's impressive how often there is at least a brief page on a show, even though there are so many of them now from all parts of the world.
That's great that you write reviews/meta as well! From the sound of the article, the in-depth nature of the writing seems to matter less than whether it examines the work at all. (And I'm not sure by what measure we would say that one post is more profound than another anyway). I know that someone posted last month at
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Por exemplo, o filme alemão Corra Lola Corra é ótimo, mas infelizmente pouquíssimas pessoas abordam o poder da personagem principal, focando às vezes única em exclusivamente na aparência dela, na fotografia do filme ou nas cenas de "ação" da obra. Eu gostaria de mais gente abordando o loop temporal e o poder da personagem, mas infelizmente não há e sinto que por isso não tenho com quem falar sobre a obra. Vou exigir alguém para fazer o que gostaria de ver? Jamais, mas nem todos pensam assim.
Quanto ao IMDb eu uso ele porque faz anos que tenho conta lá e acho ele bastante prático. Tentei o Letterboxd mas não gostei. Nunca entendi os demais sites então fico unicamente no primeiro, que é o IMDb.
Sobre a Wikipédia uso ela para auxiliar com informações sobre o que estou vendo. E em conjunto com o IMDb posso assim ger grandes informações sobre a obra.
Exemplo, assisti um filme com Marisa Tomei e Robert Downey Jr. chamado Only You, infelizmente o canal o apresentou em espanhol por alguém erro (algumas pessoas acham que no Brasil se fala espanhol e não portugues), consegui entender um pouco da obra mas precisei acessar os sites (Wikipedia e IMDb) para poder compreender realmente o filme.
Minha mãe e eu ficamos analisando o filme, mesmo que somente eu tenha entendido algo porque conheço um pouco de espanhol (tive que explicar para ela mais da metade da obra). Mas falando sobre nossa análise conversamos sobre o figurino, as locações, o enredo da trama e claro o final dela depois de todo o decorrer do filme.
Fazemos isso sempre. Mas às vezes eu não trago essas reflexões para a internet porque infelizmente muitas pessoas tem esse mal hábito atualmente de reclamar sobre uma obra e ficar nessa luta de rankings.
E daí que o filme é de 94, que a trama é boba e muito piegas. Que há um português interpretando um italiano e que a dublagem não é das melhores. Eu gostei. Minha mãe também. E é só isso importa. No entanto se eu tivesse falado online sobre ou pressionado provavelmente encontraria pessoas que odiaram e reclamando de quem gostou.
E é isso que me irrita nesse tipo de coisa dos rankings.
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IMDB does also have the advantage of having been worked on by many people for a long time, so there's a good deal of information built up. Plus, of course, there's public commentary which Wikipedia does not have.
That's really sad that you have (understandable) reasons for not sharing those insights. I think we could all learn so much about a work from the different perspectives that people bring. I know, for example, that I am particularly likely not to notice how music is used. The more effective it is, the less I notice! So I find it so interesting to see what other people took from it.
You're quite right about how rankings can obscure a lot of things. We can enjoy imperfect things. Sometimes it's a matter of timing, sometimes it's the company, sometimes it's because we happen to like a particular thing it does well.
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Eu lembro quando houve aquela enxurrada de ódio com pontuações baixíssimas em todos os sites contra o live action de Little Mermaid com uma atriz negra. Esse foi um dos mais falados, mas antes disso a comunidade cinéfila já havia passado pelo mesmo com outros títulos que tinham mulheres ou minorias com grande enfoque, principalmente protagonismo.
Barbie passou por isso. Sense8 também. Killing Eve. E poderia citar mais, mas isso só encheria esse comentário com obras que foram criticadas por causa de pensamentos racistas, machistas ou homofóbicas. E isso é chato.
Eu sei também que obras que o maior público eram mulheres também passaram por isso. Eu li sobre enquanto estava no Twitter, Tumblr ou LJ. É cansativo.
Eu dou estrelas para diversas mídias conforme meu gosto e jamais daria nota ruim só porque a obra está fazendo sucesso mais do que algo que eu gosto. Isso é ridículo. Me lembra das guerras de shipp que existiam.
Achei o arquivo incrível. Muito bem detalhado e importantíssimo. Eu gosto muito de críticos que sabem analisar o que assistem. Sei que se não fossem os fãs fazendo isso eu jamais saberia como algumas séries são (a exemplo disso cito The Sentinel). Eu cresci lendo colunas de jornais e revistas com artigos e notas de crítica ou indicação de obras diversas e isso formentou meu gosto pela arte.
Me fez ser bem criteriosa com o que consumo. Tanto que muitas vezes filmes que foram fracasso de bilheteria, que públicos internacionais odiaram e que chegaram a cancelar franquias costumam ser os meus favoritos. E aqueles que muitas vezes foram hypados e bastante famosos costumam ter nota mediana ou baixa nas minhas listagens.
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But the article points out another reason, which is increasing pressure on fans not to write or share it. I think it's a shame because it erases a large part of fandom interaction. To me, meta often formalizes what is already being discussed in some way in the fandom. (And when it's meta of fandom itself, it erases the history of the general fandom as well).
To be sure, a lot of what the article focuses on are fandoms where the pushback has been for racist or misogynistic reasons. That's probably because fandom tensions overlap with that of the general public (I would be $100 right now that most of the people complaining about the Little Mermaid's casting had never watched the original, nor care about it at all).
And yes, ship wars are part of this. I don't think the article mentions it but there has been a lot of AI slop uploaded to AO3 site for the sole purpose of making certain ships seem more popular than others. Talk about lose-lose!
And while here have been many examples of films that were considered box office failures which became much more popular, or even classics, later on, it's true of TV shows too. The "Netflix effect" has happened to a number of shows largely ignored on their original broadcasters that then did very well once they got exposed to a bigger audience on Netflix.
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The very fact that we must usually sit down to think about what we mean to say invites us to spend more time on a given set of characters, themes, and whatnot instead of just hopping onto the next thing. That itself could help "retain" fans in an age of short-lived fandoms and of shows that automatically start streaming some ten seconds after we've seen the last episode of something else. A good story -- or a story we love, anyway -- isn't exhausted on our first contact with it, after all, so I find it weird to see how a lot of people don't seem all that keen on engaging with the things they love on a deeper level, as if those numbers they contributed to in some way sufficed. Some friends have reported that their work environments already demand they engage or analyse whatever it is they work with and that means they wouldn't want to bring that dynamic into their fandom life as well; I suppose that makes sense but I'd also wager that most people out there aren't necessarily professors who analyse things for a living. It doesn't quite explain the number fixation, either.
Then again, the inability of some to engage in civil conversation and respectful disagreement really is a big argument in favour of not sharing one's own thoughts on something -- I know I myself have occasionally held back from posting a text or another for fear of backlash despite the certainty that my point of view was laid out in a way that did not attack anyone who thought differently to me.
I don't know. Personally, I don't look at rankings on IMDb or anywhere to determine if I want to watch something or not, the same as I don't look at stats on AO3 before clicking on a fic (hiding those with a site skin was perhaps one of the best decisions I ever made on there). On the other hand, I do enjoy reading other people's comments on a story (if there are any), just as I pay attention to what some critics will say of a film or a series -- neither will influence my willingness to give the thing a try, whatever it is, but it amuses me to discover what the overall reaction is and whether my own thoughts will echo it or not (and in what ways). Words, to me, convey much more meaning than any set of numbers ever could and a little back and forth, even if sometimes demanding thanks to the uneven level of spoons we might have at any given time, will always be more worthwhile and memorable than some score -- especially when that score has been tampered with, whether by fans or by haters.
(And this is long enough so I'll abstain from offering an additional 2c about how numbers get used in campaigns to "save" cancelled shows and even impact the way fans interact with one another, heh.)
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Outra vez postei que estava vendo determinado episódio e fui motivo de risos por um colega de trabalho que ficou debochando que "eu postava tudo que assistia". Esse tipo de coisa mina a vontade de alguém em dizer algo sobre o que seja.
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