Re: A million flies can't be wrong
This inherent contradiction has been going on since at least 2005. I think it's down to people with negative opinions being more likely to post than those with positive ones. This is why comments threads are full of fans deploring the new series, and yet it gets high scores on the Gallifrey Base Ratings Poll. Fandom as a whole loves the new series, but sees no need to share that love. Conversely the fans who don't like it (and I accept that opinions differ) do share their dislike, and so threads fill up with a disproportionately high number of negative comments.
These comments in turn are seized upon by other commentators as evidence that "no-one likes the new series", simply because so many people seem to be commenting that they don't like it. People who do like it rarely seem to post unsolicited praise (well, rarely compared those who don't like it), and are often confined to defensive posts.
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