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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3837471" data-attributes="member: 33060">Well, I appear to be in the minority.  That much is certain.  I've read my original post over again and it is certainly not a warm fuzzy but then it wasn't intended to be.  It also wasn't intended to be as negative as people have read it.  I've previously noted that and I think the verbiage in the post is plainly there to back that up.  Best I can figure is that the post reads negative to some because it is dismissive, perfunctory in its own right.  That would be fair as it was dismissive as I found the first installment largely "meh."  There is, however, a big difference between being underwhelmed and dismissive and overt negativity.  That distinction, however, doesn't seem to have registered.  Not much I can do about that.Had I been looking to be negative, I'd have discussed the installment in detail where I found it wanting.  I wasn't, so I didn't.  Not wanting to put too fine a point on it but I reject any suggestion that a reaction must either be praise or condemnation with no middle ground.  In the interests of clarity, let me retract my initial post and say this:I'd give the first of the three installments 3 out of 5 stars.  IMO, it is an average piece of work with nothing much to recommend it but nothing terribly wrong with it either.</blockquote>