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I finished Guardian a week or so ago, and although they butchered everything, BECAUSE the chemistry and acting between the main leads were so good, I end up liking the show overall, despite not really being into the way the story was executed. I definitely think that with excellent acting, even subpar dramas can make it. Actors can be praised for their hard work in an otherwise mediocre production.

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I would consider it bittersweet. Spoilers







Manmuang self-sacrifices to save Sukkawong, her country, and Mingla. Idk if having the fl die would be considered a sad ending but considering the circumstances, I thought her self-sacrifice made the ending bittersweet rather than it being sad.

Aida and Rokkaku are one and the same person. Relationship blocking masters.

You are actually 100% correct. No need to be proven wrong.

This series is only at 2 episodes, there's still a high chance of the ratings increasing once we get the rest of the series out. Right now I think most people are giving this series a 7-8 rating anyway, so not as many people dislike this as we think. Maybe they just want something more, which the rest of the series might be able to provide. Staying hopeful.

Or also shouldn't be allowed to indicate they have "completed" an on-going series. That's just a weird loophole.

I disagree that reviews shouldn't be allowed until after series completion. On Myanimelist they have a system where you can leave a review after certain amounts of episode. If the total is 13 episodes, you need to see at least 4, if it's 26 episodes, you need to see at least 6. So with a 12 episode, you'd need to see at least 3. Otherwise your review is basically invalid and gets deleted. I wish they did something like that here too. This system seems to be beneficial to people who may dislike a show but also want to leave a review. That way they don't have to watch all the episodes just to leave a heated review at the end.

Is it possible to report this review as "incorrect information" because clearly you have not seen 12 of 12 episodes.....No one has. Even if you were part of the production crew and managed to watch everything already, it's still incorrect to indicate on here since the public has only been provided with 2 episodes out of 12.

If you plan to review every episode, then there's an episode review section. Click on the episode guide on the header, click on which episode you have completed, and click on add reaction. You can leave individual reviews for each episode. What the reviews you're doing right now are meant for the overall of the series, thus you can see they provided the option for you to choose whether you want to put spoilers, whether you have completed the series (currently you cannot choose yes as an option because the series is airing), if you're going to drop or not, how many you have seen. If yes, then it will show you have dropped the show and have seen nth numbers of episodes. If no, then that just means you have watched nth episodes on an on-going series.

You're a pretty new member so all of this is probably not something you would have known already but now you know so. Hope all of this is just an honest mistake and not something malicious on your part.

No. S2 will continue and likely answer any unanswered question.

I do have to wonder, if MDL truly does take averages of everyone's votes as I assume they do, then I've explained in an earlier comment that it makes complete sense for just a couple hundred out of a thousand to make the ratings drop, this is if we assume extreme opposite ratings. Like only assume we have 10/10 or 1/10 ratings. But according to many folks here, it looks like the "low ratings" are between 1-7, and the "high ratings" are 8-10. Think about it. If the low ratings have such a large range compared to the high ratings, wouldn't it make sense why the overall would be considered "low"? (there's a 70% chance of people voting for the "low ratings" and only 30% chance for the "high ratings". The odds are MORE against people who want this series to have a "high rating". The fact that the ratings right now is actually still over 8.0 given it's chances means there are actually MORE people giving it "higher ratings" than "lower ratings") I think what needs to happen is to reevaluate what it means to be high or low first. If there are equal numbers of people giving this below a 7 rating vs above an 8 rating, then when you average it out, doesn't it make complete sense for the average to be closer to 7 or 8 rather than it to be a 9 or 10?

Take for example we look at a small scale of 10 total votes. 7, 7.5, 6, 6.5,7, 10, 9.5, 9, 9, 10. Add these votes to equal 81.5, then divide by the total which comes down to 8.1 as the average overall vote. Looking at these pretend numbers, we can clearly see you don't need to have 1/10 voted to make the overall around 7-8. Unless everyone here assumes everyone is giving this show a 10/10 and somehow the one or two people who gave this a 1/10 manages to tip the scale that much, then I think that's unrealistic thinking. If we were to think unrealistically and assume everyone gave this show a 10/10, then at least 20% of those people need to be on the opposite extreme to make ratings drop. I don't think everyone gave this a 10/10. I don't think nearly as many people gave this a 1/10. I think majority actually gave this a 7-8 rating. (Keep in mind not everyone comments in the comment section, so even though we see many 10/10 in the comments, doesn't mean the phantom voters gave the same). I find variety of comments putting complete blame on the people who dislike the show (labeling them 1/10 raters) to be disingenuous (or perhaps just unaware) and unable to accept the possible reality that maybe not everyone gave this a 10/10 from the getgo or that as votes keep coming in, not everyone is going to give this a 10/10, maybe 9/10 or even 8/10. No denying that the 1/10 does affect the overall, but just remember how much more it will affect if the already existing "high ratings" are only at 7 or 8.

I also just want to add that it's a little weird to always assume it's "those people" again giving 1/10, THAT is why the rating dropped. This mentality gives little wiggle room for the assumption that this show might just genuinely be worth the 8.1, for now at least (and for MDL platform). Plus it seems this mentality works "conveniently" in favor of people who do like the show. "When ratings drop, just assume someone gave it 1/10 again." That's an easier explanation than actually trying to understand what went wrong with the series, or what changed people's thoughts about the series. I personally would have given these two episodes a 7.5/10 if I voted, and when combined with the pretend numbers from earlier, this actually makes the overall go from the 8.1 to an 8.0. Now scale this up to 1.1k+ voters, with every vote, as long as they are within 7-10 equally, then the rating will likely stay the same or slightly decrease. Only if majority, and I mean overwhelmingly, started voting 9-10 then will we see the numbers start increasing to maybe 9.0.

No. Clearly only aliens have been giving this show bad ratings. Humans could never.

Ah I only mentioned it to prove a point about incomplete judgement. I've never seen it so I can't share any opinions (agree/disagree with you) about it. And just a note, you're already comparing BB as a whole with ITSAY despite it only being 2 episodes. Of course, not directly, but when you talk about another show in its entirety, wouldn't you need the base show to be in entirety as well? Furthermore, based on what people are saying about the novel, I think this does have potential to be more. Right now it's quite comedic and has little sense of seriousness, but in the future they will be dealing with angst topics (at least, what novel folks are saying?) so that's one potential way to boost this comedy into engaging in more serious topics. Shows that can balance the cute and comedy with angst topics, if done right, can be rather enjoyable.

Yes, I hope so too. I'm not into these first two episodes as much as I'd like to but I am hopeful and I hope other people who feel the same stay tuned for more episodes. It's also too early to leave now and give it a bad review/rating, imo.

Yes definitely you can but only if with other series's first 2 episodes as well. That would be a fair comparison. But if you were to say "wow these 2 episodes show that BB is in a league of its own compared to ITSAY as an overall series", you'd definitely be having a biased and incomplete judgement. Again, you can, but doesn't make it fair.
Ah noticed you edited your earlier comment. I'll keep mine the same since the main point is to encourage fair comparisons.

The acting and chemistry is definitely the highlight but since it's only 2 episodes, I think it's a little too early to give it a "class apart from the rest". We don't really have the material/content to even compare to already completed series/dramas.

Not really? Numbers are simply being calculated. Idk what you mean when you say "weigh more" but if, I assume, you mean how low scores "have more value than" high scores, (that's why the rating is so low) then there's very little chance of favoritism over scores if all they're doing is combining and getting the average. After all, the average is everyone's score, not just the 20 people.

No problem. Also I think the overall rating we see on the main page doesn't have anything to do with the episode ratings. Because we see that over 1000+ have already voted for the overall while in the episode ratings only have around 100 total if we count both episodes, 70 for the first ep and 38 for the second ep. Everyone can only vote once, both for the overall and for episode ratings. Whoever is intent on manipulating the overall rating won't have much luck, unless they make multiple fake accounts.

Considering that it's already completed, that could just be its rating? Ratings drop quick because low ratings are supposed to affect the overall. For example, if out of 100 ratings there are 80 people that gave it a 10, if just 20 are 1 rating, the rating automatically becomes 8.2 even if there are 80 people that gave a 10/10. Majority gave it a high rating so why is the rating so low? It's just simple math. Idk how MDL calculates, but when they used to still show the stats and the number of people's votes, the numbers are pretty much like that. Majority give 8.5 and over, but with just a couple in the below 5 can drastically affect the overall.

Interesting. I've seen shows increase overtime and shows decrease overtime but the rating remains relatively constant once the shows are over. Not sure how true it is that ratings gets stuck but I would have to agree too that no one should take any show by their rating alone. Always go for the review section and comments section.