Bad Firefly reviews on Amazon

POSTED BY: rklenseth
UPDATED: Monday, March 1, 2004 04:58
VIEWED: 9642
PAGE 1 of 4

1 2 3 4 NEXT PAGE

RKLENSETH

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:45 PM

There has recently been some bad reviews against Firefly on Amazon.com.

And this is another call to any people out here that haven't posted a review for Firefly on Amazon yet. The more great reviews we put on Amazon means the more people who will buy it and means the more people we will bring into our 'verse.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SHINY

Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:08 AM

Here's the breakdown as of today:

*****: 595
****: 23
***: 3
**: 3
*: 10 (strangely, 2 of these are actually positive if you read the comment...)

So while it's not dire by any means, it can't hurt to keep adding to the 5-star ratings (it wouldn't hurt to mark the bad 1-star ratings as 'unhelpful' too). I'd love to see the # of reviews hit 1000!

(I'm a little confused why 1-star ratings sometimes show up on the first page of the Firefly DVD page, since they are such a small %...are they based only on the most recent submissions?)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

PUMAMANREDUX

Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:32 AM

got bored enough to look for a few bad firefly
Amazon reviews:

here are examples of two 1 star reviews - in both cases the reviewer was an anonymous user from anycity, any state, province, etc.

Mostly for Sci-Fi fans, February 17, 2004
Reviewer: A viewer from New Orleans, LA
I bought this DvD expecting it to be one of the best tv shows..i had ever seen, but i may have had too high expectations for this show...this show will appeal to the masses who enjoyed Star Trek, Stargate , and especially the people who enjoyed Star Trek Deep space nine. Firefly is similiar to Deep Space Nine and especially not to be mistaken for the next coming of Star Wars, it has some intrestinting characters but lacks plot orignality, many of the episodes lack suspense, some bland dialogue can be found as well. The show lacks alot of entertainment value aswell making a mistake on focusing on too many character at one time.The show is reminisent of anime cartoons from japan actually one of my friends pointed it out to me aswell. The show did have a couple bright spots like the semi-budding of a romance between Kaylee and Simon but not much came out of that. Fox did make a mistake for canceling , but if you are not a lover of sci-fi, i would not recommend not buying this dvd at all. Don't be fooled about the show not being a sci-fi tv show.

Boring Show, February 16, 2004
Reviewer: A viewer from springfield, IL
Poor screenwriting is killed this show. It was a great idea with great characters but was too boring. None of the shows were interesting enough to make you want to watch it from week to week.

-----------------

This is 2 bad reviews out of 110 I have just quickly looked through (out of a total of 634 TOTAL reviews) .. so far .018% of the reviews are bad ... which isn't bad

I would have enjoyed to know specifically what these reviewers hated about the show but they decided to be general about their dislike ... I hope some of the readers who come across the two reviews I posted above will write them off as lacking enough info about why they gave their one star ratings.

The first reviewer at least liked the budding Kaylee/ Simon thang ...

(just noted Shiny's post ... 10 1 star reviews out of 634 is 0.016% of the reviews)

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. (Alfred Hitchcock)

RKLENSETH

Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:42 AM

Well, what I am concerned about is that the two of these one star reviews are very recent and can be seen on the first page. Some people only look at the first few reviews and I think it is bad to see two one star reviews right in the beginning.

And the submissions appear in the order they are submitted.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SHINY

Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:49 AM

Can the same person/user/account submit more than once? How about "anonymously"? I've already written one but would be happy to write more if I can do it without signing up for a new account...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

RKLENSETH

Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:54 AM

No, we should fight fair and play the game legit. You should only post one review plus if Amazon finds out they will delete both posts.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

SERENITYNOW

Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:28 AM

So to all of us who haven't done a review yet--let's pick up the slack.

I'll do one after work today. (Why do they say a /Joss/ show lacks good writing?)

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/

HORRID

Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:23 AM

done and done

SOUPCATCHER

Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:37 AM

It always amazes me how effective these calls for Amazon reviews are. The most recent one-star review is now off the front page. It has nine reviews ahead of it. [Out of date already. Since I started this post another 5 star was added]

To further supplement Shiny's numbers, alot of the negative reviews were posted even before the set was released.

*** - one since relase date
** - none since release date
* - five since release date

I have also been interested to see the changing tone of five star reviews. Up until a few weeks ago almost all of the posts were from people who watched the series (at least a few times) while it was aired (US, UK, Canada), or were physically converted through DVD watching. But more and more posts are from people who read the Amazon reviews and bought the set.

[editted to add] My goal in all this is to try and get a sense of the volume of sales. One indirect attempt is to compare the review numbers with other top selling DVD's. But if anyone has actual sales numbers, that's really what I'm looking for.

So there are now three generations of Browncoats!! How's that for a quality product?

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

DELRIO

Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:33 PM

I've seen lots of instances on Amazon of 1-star reviews being good reviews once you read the text. Some reviewers just don't know how to enter their star ratings. I wish Amazon would make the reviews default to not having a star rating, so that only people who deliberately entered a rating would give one.

Del Rio
"Six men came to kill me one time, and the best of them carried this."

1 2 3 4 NEXT PAGE