Opposite of GOT

AoT fans are hitting hard on copium yet again and they feel compelled to make a thread about it. Who would have guessed?

Soon it will surpass Breaking Bad, Band of the brothers & Chernobyl man trust me

The rating of Aot going from 9.0 to 9.1 have nothing to do with the airing of the ending episode. It was already 9.1 for quite some time, a few months, actually.

Game of Thrones is actually a really interesting case study. It was the hottest, most talked about show for the latter half of its run, only to be practically erased from popular culture after that ending.

It was 9.1 before.
Check out the final ep's rating, 8.6. Compared to other episodes from S4, it's one of the weakest.

Ya, it’s at an 8.9 at the moment. It will probably fall to 8.8, but that’s only because AOT stans will continue to make accounts and review bomb it to boost its rating. The fact it’s even decreasing slowly by the day suggests some people are giving it a very average to poor rating.

IMDb for anime? Naah man that's not the place for an anime or an anime episode episode rating. It's not completely wrong, but it is mostly wrong.
So it is mostly useless

@ktg It had gone gone from 9.1 to 9.0 before the Finale aired.

And I did see the Finale rating. It's better than 17 other AoT episodes.

Meaning the Finale is better than 17.5% of all AoT.

And 13 of these Episodes are from Seasons 1-3. So the Finale is better than 22% or 1/5th of the entirety of the "Peak" AoT seasons.

That doesn't seem like a bad place to be.

@ForeverTraitor Agreed.

I had seen Seasons 1-5 of GoT 5 times before the Final season aired.

Season 6 about 2 times and season 7 just once.

I was fully ready to binge the entire show from start to end once the final Season aired.

And after Season 8 aired. I have not rewatched GoT a single time. I just couldn't.

But I honestly don't see the same happening with AoT as a lot of people were and some still are claiming.

IMDb for anime? Naah man that's not the place for an anime or an anime episode episode rating. It's not completely wrong, but it is mostly wrong.
So it is mostly useless

@blind_psychic Any normal, functioning adult. IMDB has been the standard when it comes to Movie and TV-Show rankings for decades, it's the most well know too.

@Fuhrer_Wrath Kind of sounds like a self own to say "At least the final episode was better than that time when Hange went on about Sawney & Beane."

Bruh, IMDb doesn’t mean anything. That’s where overpassionate fans go to support the show and make themselves feel validated in their own opinion. I’m not taking the time to go there and rate it negatively

I was convinced the ending would be horrible. everyone that read the manga were crying about how bad It was. I genuinely think it was good. there were some issues it had, but I think it did its job well.

I've learned in life that you can't please everyone, and some people think they're cool or quirky because they have an opinion different from the majority. just because you didn't like the ending doesn't make you interesting, Jared. go on somewhere and let me enjoy the finale of a show that went on for almost half of my entire life. anyways

I always chuckle when people compare Attack on Titan to Game of Thrones. They aren't similar at all in terms of how poorly/well-received they were at the end of the series.

With Game of Thrones, each season from Season 5 on just got progressively worse. To the point where people hoped rather than expected that the writers would sort themselves out when S8 aired and at least give the series a decent send-off, but it never happened. At least the last 25-30% of that show was average to terrible.

Attack on Titan was pretty solid all the way through, and even if you think the ending was poor/average, it was only the last 20 minutes of a 30+ hour series that people primarily had an issue with.

For the most part, people seem content with the ending and the message, even if it was far from perfect. It won't go down in the annals of shows with a fantastic ending, but it's not bad enough that it detracts from the enjoyment of the rest of the series.

You were right for the most part Fuhrer but I'd like to point out some flaws here.

AoT generally stays around 9.0 and 9.1 all the time, it once reached 9.1 and dropped to 9.0 again, and then reached 9.1 again after the finale was released. However it's not solely cuz of the finale, there can be several possibilities for the ratings increasing:

1. Whenever an AoT episode released we saw a sudden huge surge in popularity of the series. I myself started watching the series after I saw a sudden huge surge in popularity of the series at a point before which I didn't have any plans to start watching the series anytime soon but I did cuz I like staying up to date with latest trends. This explains why the number of user ratings increased on imdb, and with the increase in user ratings did increase the number of 10/10s, so did the overall score.

2. Many people rate a show after it ends and not before that. We all know that AoT is a really popular show and several people watch it, but not every one of them go to websites like Imdb to rate shows. But they could've thought about rating it after they've finished watching it, cuz you can also add shows to your watch list on imdb, and that website is not solely about rating shows, it is a website about large scale information about tons of shows. So that's it, several people rated the show after they've finished watching it.

3. There can also be a possibility of people increasing their rating because they have liked the ending, but this possibility is very less and I don't think it is the reason.

4. There are some people who keep the ratings of their shows low before they finish them, and later on judge the show after they finish it and give it an overall proper score. So there could also be a possibility of this.

There could be more possibilities of the score increasing but these are all the points I could think of now. There is a very less 1/4 probability of the overall score incresing because people liked the ending. So I think it's mostly the first 2 factors playing in the increase in the overall score of the show.

That's right. Bringing GoT into the conversation isn't really something we needed.
But thanks, for this observation xD

Not really.
Firstly, it was 9.1 before that, if I remember correctly it was way higher quite some time ago. If I remember correctly the peak was around 9.3.
Secondly, compared to earlier seasons, it's still not that good. We are talking about SnK here, which had the most generic start, based on that it could have been a Kenja no Mago-like anime (even the theme is similar, revenge, hatred etc).
A show, a good show normally becomes better and better, because you are deeper in the story. It does not need to reuse old, generic stuff, but in this aspect SnK was way worse, because Isayama did a generic shounen start twice. Once with Eren and once with Gabi. At first I thought this was a poetic decision, but it turned out that Isayama is just simply not that good an author.

It's only true if we are talking about a popular show. When you look at an unpopular show, it usually has a lower rating, compared to what it should be or what it is on MAL. While with a popular show, the rating is usually higher.
This happens because on average anime is better than an average - western live action - show. Let's say the average is 5 if we include every show, but the anime subset should be somewhere between 6.5 and 7.

people said that to tell the ending of a great show is bad, but why compare the two.
One is live action other is an anime. Let's Leave them both be what they are, they can never be compared.

They were saying, the ending will be bad to a great show, now where have you seen something like that?, yeah like GOT had a bad ending to a great show. No comparison between the two shows, just giving an example to help make easier understand what the secnario is gonna be. Which it didn't turn out to be as worse. So that's good.

But not compare them like which is better, if you are not doing that, it's fine cause they can't be compared. Peace