sprainedpinky t1_jaehtxo wrote
Reply to comment by Saar13 in Amazon Studios Boss Jennifer Salke Unfazed by Warner Bros. New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies: ‘We Have Enough Fan Love to Sustain’ by Neo2199
You’re knit picking data. You’re looking at the initial popularity of the show, and neglecting the sharp decline of viewers once people realized the show was terribly made.
So here’s the history, the show was released to a number of people excited about it. People watched and the many stopped watching. People have been giving terrible ratings on the show throughout the series and the last episode was better received and watched more.
So you’re completely missing the fact that the show had a huge drop off. Your grabbing onto the initial hype of the show and forgetting the downward spiral the show had after the initial release lol. Amazon had to turn off the ratings option for a long time because people were giving terrible ratings for the show when it first was launched.
TapedeckNinja t1_jaex0xn wrote
> neglecting the sharp decline of viewers once people realized the show was terribly made.
> People watched and the majority stopped watching
> So you’re completely missing the fact that the show had huge drop off
> Your grabbing onto the initial hype of the show and forgetting the downward spiral the show had after the initial release lol
Here are the Nielsen ratings by week. RoP released 2 episodes on 9/1/2022 and then one episode weekly through 10/14/2022.
Week ending 9/4: 1,253 million minutes
Week ending 9/11: 1,203 million minutes
Week ending 9/18: 988 million minutes
Week ending 9/25: 977 million minutes
Week ending 10/2: 966 million minutes
Week ending 10/9: 988 million minutes
Week ending 10/16: 1,137 million minutes
I don't see this "sharp decline" or "huge dropoff" and certainly no evidence that "the majority stopped watching".
sprainedpinky t1_jaf0qp3 wrote
Your stats show that the show dropped off after the first two episodes were released by 25%, and sustained that drop until the end of the season (exactly like I said).
Amazon had to literally turn off their rating system because they were worried about the tanking ratings viewers were giving it. They invested a ridiculous amount of money and viewers were giving them bad ratings 😂
https://variety.com/vip/amazons-silence-on-the-rings-of-power-audience-size-is-deafening-1235422462/
This article says what both of us are saying. Yes, it was successful in some regards but it hard a tremendous drop off that never caught up to itself. The rating are also surrounded by asterisks because Amazon does not release its streaming data and they are hazy about their statistics.
‘Still, this pattern suggests “Rings’” audience shrank as the season went on, with little catch-up watching by new viewers taking place midseason. Even when viewing time rose again, it failed to reach the heights of the series' initial weeks of release. The steeper (around 20%) dropoff from its first two weeks also suggests many viewers who checked out the series early on didn’t continue watching it — not a great sign for its growth potential.’
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