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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #60 on: May 03, 2011, 07:20:21 PM »
There was a lengthy discussion on one of the MZPtv podcasts (I believe, might have dreamt it up) about the pitfalls of rating something using a number, which I fully agree with. It's harder to comprehend the quality of a script if I receive a '7' or '8' over being told what I'm doing right and wrong.

There was a discussion on a podcast. I believe it was the podcast on reviewing where we also discussed about keeping reviews on the boards (rather than outside blogs) and the different ways of reviewing.


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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #61 on: May 03, 2011, 07:28:40 PM »
Okay.  I do see the downfall because you would have people just clicking on numbers and maybe not even read the episode.  I do go back to what I said before about the individual pages for the shows.  Do all shows have them (ie...The Parcel View I believe is where I saw it first)?  That would be kind of cool and the showrunner could go hog wild with what they put on there, BUT then again you would have to be able to create those sites...(so that's probably a bad idea...which I seem to be having) :D

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #62 on: May 03, 2011, 07:29:49 PM »
I don't personally see it that way, but I understand what you're saying.  It's just like when you give feedback to the writer, it's not always good is it??  And not everyone gives their feedback to what they read.  I was just thinking this would be a way for people to register that they read an episode (which episode) and give a rank 1-10 and leave comments if they wanted to.  That's pretty much what I was thinking!  The moving around forums, would be stupid now that I think of it.  :(

There was a lengthy discussion on one of the MZPtv podcasts (I believe, might have dreamt it up) about the pitfalls of rating something using a number, which I fully agree with. It's harder to comprehend the quality of a script if I receive a '7' or '8' over being told what I'm doing right and wrong.

That was me, I think. I do remember stopping Adam from ending the podcast twice - and that was one of the reasons because I wanted to talk about it.

Back in the (far, far, far) day before my inevitable review burnout and vs-reviewing breakdown I swore by the number system, and at one point my RED BOLDED NUMBERS (aka the XandZ! Rating) were feared beyond belief. They were also one of the long term reasons that Pilot Season was created (via the Pitch Council)(*COUGHLARACROFTGENESISCOUGH*). But as Mike Jay said - you can't really see what differs between a '6' and a '7'.

In what I believed was fair back then, I often judged later episodes on what the pilot was like. So if I enjoyed a pilot with a high score, then a standard was met for that series. All subsequent ratings were based on that standard I expected from that series. The only problem is that differing members views clashed with them when perhaps an episode of a more popular series written by a skilled writer received a lower score from perhaps an episode written by a lesser experienced writer. What it did do, however, was highlight one key aspect of the whole subjectivity of reviewing anyway.

Mike's 'yay' 'nay' and 'meh' rating system is a lot more direct. I prefer it.

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #63 on: May 03, 2011, 07:30:55 PM »
Even on the current site

So a new website it is?

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Vaughn can see through several millennia with his wormhole eyes. He's comparing it to the site in 2758.


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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #64 on: May 03, 2011, 07:45:24 PM »
but what about the site in 2989? can Vaughn see what it's like then as well?
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #65 on: May 03, 2011, 07:46:34 PM »
It's made entirely of protons and beamed into your brains via the moon

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #66 on: May 03, 2011, 08:13:50 PM »
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #67 on: May 03, 2011, 10:24:21 PM »
It's made entirely of protons and beamed into your brains via the moon

oh my...he's got the shinning.
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #68 on: May 04, 2011, 07:12:15 PM »
Whatever this is, will probably be the reason you might not see Feels Like Summer this year...
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #69 on: May 04, 2011, 07:23:22 PM »
lol...really?

then that means it's a big deal ;) You don't even know how much this bothers me.  It's like I have to know what's going on, and when people dangle the worm in front of the fish and the fish can't get to it... :D  lol
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #70 on: May 04, 2011, 07:29:14 PM »
As Vaughn said, it's as big a development since the forum move.

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #71 on: May 04, 2011, 07:33:29 PM »
Sounds really really exciting.  Although I'm no one important or any kind of big shot so it probably won't affect me as much, but it's still cool that places keep moving forward and not die in the muck and mire of 'yesterday'

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #72 on: May 04, 2011, 07:43:49 PM »
It'll (hopefully) affect everyone.

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #73 on: May 04, 2011, 07:45:26 PM »
Oo er...

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #74 on: May 04, 2011, 10:07:11 PM »
Colour me confused and excited... :D

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #75 on: May 07, 2011, 01:22:38 PM »
I'm going to say I think it's a new website & Forums with more features for shows. Maybe even a new host or like someone else said one site for original and one for continuations.
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #76 on: May 09, 2011, 11:31:55 AM »
2+0+1+1 =04.

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #77 on: May 09, 2011, 12:08:43 PM »
Crap he's on to us...

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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #78 on: May 10, 2011, 12:19:39 AM »
Looks like I came back in time for a mystery...I love a good mystery
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Re: Coming Soon to MZP-tv...
« Reply #79 on: May 18, 2011, 02:36:36 PM »
There may, or there may not, be some more hints or clues later today....