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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8809185" data-attributes="member: 23751">I think it's probably a good thing to keep in mind that many, if not most viewers don't rate shows on technical skill and creativity.  They rate it on how much they like or dislike the show.  So while you may give those things 3 stars because of technical skill and creativity, someone who doesn't rate on those things would rightly give them 1 star, because they hate those shows.If I had to guess, I'd say that 50%-75% of 1 star reviews are just haters, rather than genuine reviews.  That still leaves a lot of genuine 1 star reviewes.They don't need to spell it out.  If they felt that way, they felt that way.  If you don't, you don't.This is true.  As a fantasy series it's pretty decent.  [USER=6780330]@Parmandur[/USER] said he thought I would give it 3 stars. I'd probably give it 3.5 stars.  Likely I'd give it 4 stars out of 5 if it didn't have ridiculousness like an elf jumping off a boat in the middle of the ocean and then having a shipwrecked group of humans "wander by" within minutes, followed by a sea monster at the same time, followed by a chance meeting with a ship soon after.  Some things just reaaaaaally stretched believability for me.  Those would be fantasy series ratings.As a Tolkien show I'd give it 1.5-2 stars, because only the Harfoots and dwarves were well done. It really failed me on the Tolkien front.That's fair.</blockquote>