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5 min readIn the midst of a heated discussion about Star Wars: The Acolyte, Asmongold noticed something odd on Rotten Tomatoes: the audience score for the show had vanished from the front page. Instead of seeing the usual split between an 83% critic score and a 14% audience rating, visitors had to scroll down and click into a specific season to find the audience number. This wasn't an isolated glitch. Other Star Wars TV shows soon showed the same missing score, while shows with high audience ratings remained untouched. What followed was a rapid restoration of the scores, a wave of articles dismissing the incident as a technical error, and a broader argument about who really controls the conversation around movies and TV.
The disappearing score and what it meant
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:27) **Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Disappears** - Asmongold introduces the core controversy: the audience score for TV shows, specifically Star Wars shows like The Acolyte, was removed from the front page of Rotten Tomatoes.
- 2 (03:49) **Pattern Emerges: Only Star Wars Shows Affected** - The change initially appeared to target only Star Wars-related TV shows, not all shows or movies.
- 3 (04:55) **Skepticism vs. Confirmation Bias** - Asmongold and his co-host debate the need for skepticism before jumping to conclusions, especially when a narrative is appealing.
- 4 (06:23) **Is It a Backpedal or a Technical Glitch?** - Asmongold speculates that Rotten Tomatoes may have been caught trying to hide low audience scores and quickly reversed the change after negative attention.
- 5 (08:48) **Critics Are Tools, Audience Is King** - Asmongold lays out his core philosophy: critics exist to serve the audience, and when there's a large disparity, the critics are always wrong.
- 6 (09:52) **Review Bombing vs. Professional Bias** - The conversation shifts to the validity of audience scores versus critic scores, with Asmongold distrusting critics more.
- 7 (12:22) **The Fix Wasn't Complete** - Asmongold shows that not all shows had their audience scores restored, pointing to *Sunny* and *Sausage Party* as examples that still lacked scores.
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