Doctor XFizzle 8,670 March 24, 2014 Share March 24, 2014 (edited) http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt1751105 THIS IS A QUALITY RATING LIKE GIVING AN EPISODE A 7.5/10 FOR BEING DECENT. NOT TELEVISION RATINGS LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE WATCHED IT. according to the ratings graph, the show's quality has remained relatively consistent. Season 3 took a bit of a downturn not surprisingly. Lowest rated Season 4 ep so far is Breezies which was surprising to me. Also surprised The Return of Harmony - Part 2 isn't rated higher. Highest Rated Season 1 ep: Winter Wrap-Up Lowest Rated Season 1 ep: Griffon the Brush Off Highest Rated Season 2 ep: A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1 Lowest Rated Season 2 ep: The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well Highest Rated Season 3 ep: The Crystal Empire - Part 1 & Too Many Pinkie Pies (tie) Lowest Rated Season 3 ep: Spike At Your Service & Games Ponies Play (tie) Highest Rated Season 4 ep: Maud Pie Lowest Rated Season 4 ep: It Ain't Easy Being Breezies Edited March 27, 2014 by Doctor XFizzle 2 MLP Forums' resident timelord, sports dilettante, and purveyor of wit and humor~*Traveling Timelord Nonpareil*~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootalove 10,689 March 24, 2014 Share March 24, 2014 I figured that the episodes would look a bit consistent, I'm surprised at the Return of Harmony's rating though. 1 Credit: Moony © Forum FAQ Forum Rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptimisticNeighsayer 479 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 There's more variation from this season than the others, which I think should give us some pause. Having extremes of good and bad episodes does not speak too well of a show's quality. But given the number of votes for the later episodes, it might flatten out over time, and who knows, the ranges might have been more extreme at an earlier time. I think Derpy skewed "Rainbow Falls"'s score. 5 Hablo español--Je parle français--日本語を話す--我说中文--...and sarcasm (yeah right!) I compose music. Six Pony Rags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlight Sky 375 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 (edited) Interesting. I should consult the old episode discussions to see if it mostly matches up. Having mare-a-thoned the first 3 seasons, I didn't really analyze the episodes individually. Just took everything as it came. I've gotten a general sense of how many feel about them though, so "Too Many Pinkie Pie's" surprised me with it's rating. The Return of Harmony (Part 1 and 2) have an 8.6 rating, which is on the upper end of things; but since I'm a little out of it, someone should double-check that Edited March 25, 2014 by Starlight Sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerpop198 696 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 To be honest some of the ratings are actually uprising, while some are pretty expected. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wind Chaser 4,768 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 (edited) Pre-season 4, best episodes are Winter Wrap-Up and A Canterlot Wedding Part 1? Many of these choices surprise me, I would think a more accurate descriptor of the show's quality would be a percent negative/positive index based on the opinions of a sample of the community's top analysts. I don't trust IMDb users, it's troll haven over there. If you want to see a really wild graph, check out SpongeBob's: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0206512 . Edited March 25, 2014 by WindChaserPegasus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellafera 3,836 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 So let me get this straight. Owl's Well That Ends Well, The Mysterious Mare Do Well, and most of all freaking WONDERBOLTS ACADEMY and SOMEPONY TO WATCH OVER ME are all... 1. Following an AABB rhyme scheme 2. Episodes from each of the four seasons 3. Worse than this There is one statement there that's false, and I'm pretty sure it's not the rhyme scheme. (Also, apparently Hurricane Fluttershy is inferior to Maud Pie. And that rhymes too! There has got to be a pattern here...) Latest Video: Come On: An Ode To Best Friendship "Says they don't like MMDW or Merriwether Williams: Inb4 Stellafera" - Sugar Cube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megas 27,897 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 IMBD ratings are about as trustworthy as metacritic's. And by that I mean not trustworthy at all That said, surprised S3's highest rated episode was Crystal Empire, that episode is usually rated by fans as one of S3's more mediocre episodes. On the other hand, at least it's not Magic Duel Also thought Boast Busters was worse than Griffon the Brush Off, but seeing the latter doesn't surpise me Not surprised by Breezies either, I wouldn't say the reaction was more negative than Rainbow Falls, but I've seen enough negativity towards it that it doesn't surprise me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor XFizzle 8,670 March 25, 2014 Author Share March 25, 2014 Doctor Who has some wild inter-season variances. Check this out. http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0436992 MLP Forums' resident timelord, sports dilettante, and purveyor of wit and humor~*Traveling Timelord Nonpareil*~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 I thought "A Canterlot Wedding" As a whole would get the highest rating, and I totally knew "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" got the lowest. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWg-TtBRMfqketa1ELyKGg Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/menelik-david-kenneth-cannady 2nd SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thunder-dash-alternative/tracks Pony.fm: https://pony.fm/thunder-dash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DryGuy84 (Inactive) 927 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 This just goes to show why you should generally come to your own conclusions about an episode at hand, and not rely on a review site or video to tell you how to feel. "Oh look, there's our friend Rarity GOING DOWN IN FLAMES!!! ISN"T FRIENDSHIP MAGIC!!!?" -Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity "No matter how many times others tell you you're great, all the praise in the world means nothing if you don't feel it inside.......Sometimes to feel good about yourself, you gotta let go of the past. That way, when the time comes to let your greatness fly, you'll be able to light up the whole sky." -Cathy Weseluck as Spike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moved to Elsewhere 11,331 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 Okay some of these ratings don't make sense compared to how I've seen fans talk about them. Didn't a lot of people not like the Crystal Empire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adorkable 2,737 March 25, 2014 Share March 25, 2014 Highest Rated Season 4 ep: Maud Pie Haha, people really loved Maud Pie. I can understand though, her dry humor made her hilarious. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denim&Venöm 19,689 March 27, 2014 Share March 27, 2014 I don't trust ratings statistics, especially in this day in age. Neilson boxes, where this data is taken form, sample only 1 in 10,000 homes. .01% of all american households. That is a lousy sample size to base any conclusions off of. Not only that, but in this age of recording programs, as well as streaming and viewing episodes on secondary devices like tablets, phones, and computers may skew actual viewership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radiance64 7,053 March 27, 2014 Share March 27, 2014 Huh, most of that isn't surprising I suppose, though I don't think Griffon the Brush Off and Games Ponies Play are all that bad really. There's still a bit of Season 4 yet to come though, so I wouldn't crown a definitive best or worst for that just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor XFizzle 8,670 March 27, 2014 Author Share March 27, 2014 I don't trust ratings statistics, especially in this day in age. Neilson boxes, where this data is taken form, sample only 1 in 10,000 homes. .01% of all american households. That is a lousy sample size to base any conclusions off of. Not only that, but in this age of recording programs, as well as streaming and viewing episodes on secondary devices like tablets, phones, and computers may skew actual viewership. It's not ratings like how many households watched, it's quality ratings voted by users like rating it 8/10. 1 MLP Forums' resident timelord, sports dilettante, and purveyor of wit and humor~*Traveling Timelord Nonpareil*~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptimisticNeighsayer 479 March 27, 2014 Share March 27, 2014 (edited) It's not ratings like how many households watched, it's quality ratings voted by users like rating it 8/10. That's what I initially thought when I first saw the thread. I had looked at viewership numbers for the show on Wikipedia and I found that of all episodes, "Pinkie Pride" had the second lowest viewership of the season after "Daring Don't"-- so when I saw that "Pinkie Pride" was highly rated, I thought to myself "what" until I looked at the axes. Edited March 27, 2014 by OptimisticNeighsayer Hablo español--Je parle français--日本語を話す--我说中文--...and sarcasm (yeah right!) I compose music. Six Pony Rags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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