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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8810220" data-attributes="member: 59082">Speaking more generally....Culturally speaking, there's always a rush to love (or agree with) the Latest Thing. A lot of this is fueled by PR and advertisement campaigns. Everyone must love the Latest Thing, because...it is the Latest Thing, and is what everyone loves! (Even if it is obvious that a lot of people don't love it).Big corporations like Amazon want as many people to love their Latest Thing because, well, they've invested a lot of money. So they'll do things like hold back or censor negative reviews, and pay people to write positive reviews. Or worse yet, they'll magnify the number of actual bigoted trolls--who are actually rather few in number--and accuse anyone of disliking the show, doing so out of bigotry (even if their complaints have nothing to do with bigotry), trying to inoculate them from actual legit criticism, and thereby giving the bird to the actual large number of fans who are disappointed, furthering division. Meaning, it is a smear job done by a big corporation of the people that they should be trying to woo.We've seen this before, though I won't name names. But many of the films that have a huge discrepancy between critics and audience reviews follow a similar pattern.</blockquote>