Ran

772 votes, 7.56 average, 8 median, 7.78 normalized average, 82% "fresh"

"Normalized" is simply a very quick and dirty attempt to clean up the polarization a bit by dropping the top and bottom 5% of votes. So if there are 700 votes, I cut that to 630, dropping the 35 lowest and 35 highest votes to try and see what happens.

715 votes, 7.57 average, 8 median, 7.80 normalized average, 82% "fresh"

It's the load issue noted earlier. For whatever reason, a reboot of MySQL fixes it. We should see load tapering off over the next week, and this should be a less common occurence.

645 votes, 7.63 average, 9 median, 7.86 normalized average, 82% "fresh"

512 votes, 7.51 average, 8 median, 7.73 normalized average, 81% "fresh". Re: worst rated season, I will note that episode 3's botched sept scene led to a huge amount of outrage that dragged the episode down quite a lot. This episode, if anything, makes it clear that the botching was purely a matter of staging -- their intent was true to the novels, if a little "edgier", they just failed to convey it. I though "Breaker of Chains" would otherwise have been an 8.0+ episode, and possibly the fourth episode would have been liked a little more, in which case season 4 would have been comfortably preferred over season 2 and may well have challenged season 3 for the #2 spot on the forum. Another statistical note: this is the only season of the series without at least one episode rated 9.0 or higher.

490 votes, 7.50 average, 8 median, 7.73 normalized average, 81% "fresh"

Ignorant Bog Woman, I haven't updated all the episodes to their latest scores, but most of them should be pretty close: Episode 1: 8.18 (of 661 votes) Episode 2: 8.41 (of 595 votes) Episode 3: 6.98 (of 597 votes) Episode 4: 7.78 (of 633 votes) Episode 5: 7.40 (of 509 votes) Episode 6: 8.76 (of 666 votes) Episode 7: 8.28 (of 802 votes) Episode 8: 8.12 (of 744 votes) Episode 9: 8.00 (of 840 votes) Episode 10: 7.53 (of 436 votes)

436 votes, 7.53 average, 8 median, 7.78 normalized average, 81% fresh. Season average: 7.94, the lowest of the series to date (season 2 ranked 7.96)

393 votes, 7.58 average, 9 median, 7.81 normalized average, 81% "fresh" (aka votes 6 or higher).

Lord Stoneheart, The second and third season finales both are sharply down from the episode that preceed them, so I think the general sense of the voters on the forum (as a group) was a sense of being let down.

That's because, uh, I was making a point. So, yes, it's a joke.

Revising my vote from 8 to 7, I guess... (Honestly, could people just vote what they actually feel, and not focus on counter-voting people? You all end up polarizing the votes, and while this largely cancels itself out, it's still asinine.)

Giving it an 8 as well. The exceptional moments are exceptional, but there's a number of things that had the bite taken out of them. (And no, Lady Stoneheart is not something I'm concerned with; I've been pretty sure it was out this season for a long while -- I'll angst about it only if season 5 has nothing about it.)

What'd you think?

Non-spoiler discussion of the show goes here, for those who've not read the books or those who have but are happy to not actually reference them at all in discussion, taking each episode as it comes. This topic should open automatically when the show begins airing.

802 votes, 8.0 average, 9 median (heh), 8.26 normalized average, 86% fresh.

798 votes, 8.00 average, 10 median, 8.26 normalized average, 86% "fresh" (i.e 86% of votes are 6 or higher).

582 votes, 7.96 average, 10 median, 8.22 normalized average, 85% "fresh".

It's a MySQL error that we're getting on occasion that's messing up the pages. I'm not sure why that is right now, but a restart of the server seems to fix it immediately. It's probably related to the high traffic we get after episodes.

548 votes, 7.93 average, 10 median, 8.19 normalized average, 84% "fresh" (i.e. 84% of the total votes are 6 or higher).

Also, 431 votes, 7.87 average, 10 median, 8.13 normalized average, 84% "fresh"

Hopefully someone drops their vote a point just because of other people voting not how they feel, but as counters to others. It really polarizes the results when people vote with agendas. Just vote what you really feel about the episode, and don't worry about what anyone else says.

401 votes, 7.92 average, 10 median, 8.18 normalized average, 85% "fresh"

322 votes, 7.94 average, 10 median, 8.20 normalized average, 85% "fresh"