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Critical Dissonance

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Critical Dissonance	comment	Critical Dissonance is polar opposition of public to critical opinion. Critics might love a certain work while general audiences shun it, or vice versa. Art â€” all kinds, not just abstract â€” is notoriously subject to this. Critics may look down on a popular work on principle, denouncing it as Lowest Common Denominator garbage thatâ€™s all flash and no substance. Critics tend to favor serious drama and disdain genre works (horror) and lighter works. Conversely, the public may see a work beloved by the critics as boring, angsty, and pretentious drivel engineered solely to win awards from equally boring, angsty, and pretentious Academy members. Other divides could result from critics putting greater emphasis on the politics some media are perceived to be pushing rather than the merits of the media itself. A major factor for this disparity is that critics tend to consume much more of whatever media they work with than those whose time to do so is limited by their day jobs. Critics' schooling and training can result in them having an entire vocabulary for interpreting their chosen artistic medium that a popular audience simply doesn't have. This can lead to something that seems fresh to viewers who aren't too familiar with similar works getting panned by critics who've seen that kind of thing a million times already, or to critics appreciating something that actually is very innovative but is missing elements a general audience seeks and enjoys. Some media are less affected by this than others. Since comedy relies on what an individual finds funny, this is the genre of movie most likely to spur on Critical Dissonance. One critic may find a movie hilarious while another finds it tacky. Switch out comedy for the horror genre and you get the same polarizing results. Niche media may particularly suffer this because some or all of the critics assigned to review it arenâ€™t members of its target demographic or donâ€™t even have a basic knowledge of the genre. To look at it another way, if the business model involves an audience who will actively seek it out, those people will be predisposed to enjoy it, whereas critics who see it out of professional necessity will not have that selection bias. In general, this trope has historically been uncommon with video games, partly due to the far greater reliance on reviews among gamers, and partly because the technical side (gameplay, graphics, etc.) tends to carry more weight with games than with books or TV. Additionally, good gameplay (at least in terms of, say, lacking glitches) is much more black-and-white than a what counts as a good story, writing, or acting. However, video-game journalism is infamous for its frightening degree of corruption, to the point where reviewers who donâ€™t sufficiently praise games that buy enough advertising space on their stomping grounds tend to get fired pretty quickly. When Critical Dissonance does occur with games, it is more often than not because gamers thought that the critics had been overly kind or even been paid upfront by the publishers as part of an advertising and/or first-look article special. Telltale signs of Critical Dissonance include disagreement between a workâ€™s revenue and its reviews, simultaneous nominations for both â€˜best Xâ€™ and â€˜worst Yâ€™ awards (bonus points if X=Y), and angry comments on those review sites that have them. Note that both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic user scores should never be used to solely evaluate whether something falls under this trope since its voting system is extremely susceptible to manipulation by a Vocal Minority seeking to use review bombing to promote their own cause cÃ©lÃ¨bre. See also Critical Backlash, Critic-Proof, Bias Steamroller, It's Popular, Now It Sucks!, Opinion Myopia, and Oscar Bait. Could overlap with Pop-Culture Isolation and Acclaimed Flop. Critical Dissonance is often a driving factor behind shows and works being consigned to the Comedy Ghetto. Contrast with Cult Classic where a work tends to have neither critical acclaim nor general popularity, but is enjoyed by a few die-hard fans. Possibly the cause of Mainstream Obscurity. Sometimes later opinions can match, and then we have Vindicated by History (or Condemned by History, as the case may be), but not always. And sometimes a movie may have a terrible story but people want to see the giant monsters and/or robots kickin each other's asses. No examples are allowed from works that - at the time of posting - were released less than a month ago, or have not finished their first season or theatrical run.
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Critical Dissonance / int_11788bea	comment	Kevin Nash was one of the most hated wrestlers among critics and internet fans, due to his backstage politicking and lack of effort in the ring. But was insanely over in the 1990s and nearly always gets good reactions when he appears on TV these days. The reaction has mellowed somewhat over time with Nash's post wrestling comments and shoots, as Jim Cornette put it: "Nash is at least a witty, personable asshole."
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Critical Dissonance / int_11a510c	comment	The Bella Twins, especially Nikki (mainly due to having John Cena as her partner rather than Daniel Bryan), have a very vocal internet Hatedom. However, critics began praising them for their improvement by the end of 2015 and they get decent reactions from most casual audiences. Their reality show helped.
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Critical Dissonance / int_11b7db91	comment	Season 6 of Adventure Time received praise for its newfound cosmic, Contemplate Our Navels nature, citing it as an example of the show's growing maturation. However, Season 6 is considered to be the most divisive season by fans for the same reasons. Many were put off by the show's newfound philosophizing and considered the new direction pretentious and ridiculous, thought the season finale was anti-climactic, and believed that the writers were getting more than a little self-indulgent.
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Critical Dissonance / int_11df1e7a	comment	Almost Naked Animals really hasnâ€™t gone over well with fans (ratings from TV.com and IMDb have hovered in the 2.0 to 3.0 range), but the few mainstream reviewers who did pay any attention to the show found it decent. It was also nominated for a Gemini Award, sold lots of merchandise, and ran for three seasons â€” things that do not usually happen to shows ranking that low with viewers.
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Critical Dissonance / int_189767a1	comment	Ashley Massaro got decent reactions from WWE audiences, but virtually every wrestling critic and journalist despised and mocked her to no end, especially Diva Dirt. Harsher in Hindsight after her suicide.
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Critical Dissonance / int_18ae2595	comment	Reviews for the original New York production of Almost, Maine were mixed, and it closed after only a month. Within five years it had become the most frequently produced play in American high schools, beating out perennial staples like Our Town, Noises Off, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Critical Dissonance / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: Judging for several critics's reviews, one could think that Digimon Fusion was a sound success in general. While critics liked the show and it did had a relatively strong merchandising presence, Fusion ultimately failed to endear itself to fans and harvested the lowest ratings in the entire Digimon franchise, to the point its sequel series was never dubbed. Even today, the most popular opinion in the internet is that it was So Okay, It's Average with few really memorable elements. Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, the sequel to Fusion, is considered by many fans to be the worst series of the franchise for numerous criticisms like its two unlikable, underdeveloped leads who replaced the ones from the previous series. Despite this, the series was nominated for Best Animation at the 2012 International Emmy Kids Awards. Digimon Adventure: (2020) has been well-received critically; with many praising the changes in direction from the original Digimon Adventure. Fan reaction has been much more mixed for much of the same reasons.
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Critical Dissonance / int_1c649ab3	comment	The anime adaptation of The Rising of the Shield Hero. Many critics downright loathed it from the very first episode, detesting the False Rape Accusation that sets up the rest of the series, and the fact it was an isekai series, a genre heavily associated with male wish fulfillment that is extremely popular among readers and viewers yet which critics aren't exactly crazy about, likely didn't help it either. In fact, many critics hated the series so much some even named it among their worst anime of the season. In stark contrast, many anime fans and casual viewers loved the series, and it went on to become one of 2019's biggest hits: it was reportedly the most continuously watched anime that year, spawned some of the year's most popular anime memes and a couple of its most beloved anime girls, and its user scores on most fan sites remain high even today. In fact, the aforementioned false accusation was part of why the series attracted so much attention. It was so successful that it got an unusual announcement of two additional seasons after the first season concluded.
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Critical Dissonance / int_1f72b18d	comment	Fans of the original Tom and Jerry shorts absolutely despise both The Tom and Jerry Show (1975) and The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, but IMDb gave the shows a 7.8 and a 7.6 respectively.
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Critical Dissonance / int_21b21f35	comment	The first half of season 1 of BoJack Horseman had a critical response that could be summed up as So Okay, It's Average. Itâ€™s currently rated by Metacritic users at an 8.3. Itâ€™s subverted as critics eventually came around once the show grew the beard in the season's second half, with Season 2 earning a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Show Within a Show Horsin Around was also an example; it was dismissed as lowbrow in the 90s and in the present day is dismissed as having sucked, but it ran for nine successful seasons and is still a massive cultural touchstone decades later.
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Critical Dissonance / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The majority of critical reception for the episode "Flander's Ladder" was mixed to negative (though Screen Rant did call it the 29th season's best episode). Most notably, Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club utterly hated the episode and described its ending scene as "a cheap gambit to close out a truly disappointing episode (and season) with unmerited weight." In contrast, audiences at the time loved the episode, with special praise being given to the Six Feet Under Series Finale parody at the end of the episode. "Love is a Many Strangled Thing" got a B+ from Rowan Kaiser of The A.V. Club, who said there was a "consistent stream of amusing lines, steadily increasing in frequency, until I realized that I'd been chuckling essentially from the start of the second act until the end of the fourth". In contrast, the episode was panned by the show's fans due to the excessively mean-spirited nature of the plot and making Bart look Unintentionally Unsympathetic, especially the scene where he shows apathy to Homer being hanged.
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Critical Dissonance / int_2b2283eb	comment	He addressed this trope in his reviews of The Eagle (2011) and Knight and Day. He feels that the reason for the disconnect between critics and the â€˜averageâ€™ moviegoer is because critics watch and pick apart hundreds of movies per year as part of their job and have learned how to spot every trope and plot twist from a mile away, making them much more receptive to original, offbeat movies that go against their expectations. Meanwhile, people who donâ€™t see more than one movie a week (i.e. most non-critics) can better appreciate films that are cliched but well-made on the technical side, and find arthouse films that challenge "traditional" genre boundaries to be off-putting.
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Critical Dissonance / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The 1955 Looney Tunes short Rabbit Rampage is often criticised by fans for being a retread of Duck Amuck with more muted humour, since Bugs didn't have the right personality to make his reactions to the torment as funny as Daffy's were. Chuck Jones considered the short a dud as well. However, the short has a very solid 7.6/10 rating on IMDb.
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Critical Dissonance / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Among casual manga/anime fans and the general public, Naruto is a merchandising juggernaut with a massive and rabid fanbase. On the critical side of things and amongst more core and hardcore circles, itâ€™s generally treated as a fairly average and generic Shounen action series at best, and overrated and over-exposed at worst.
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Critical Dissonance / int_312ba4d0	comment	Black Bird (2006) was the sixth best-selling manga series in the US for 2011. You wouldn't have guessed it based on the lukewarm to negative reviews most mainstream reviewers gave it, with some even being openly disgusted by the main male lead's treatment of its heroine.
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Critical Dissonance / int_37a71462	comment	Les MisÃ©rables is listed under theatre, but the novel was also received very negatively when first published, described as â€œinfantileâ€� and â€œtasteless and inept.â€� However, it was a commercial success and is now considered a classic of French literature.
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Critical Dissonance / int_3ac755dd	comment	Disneyâ€™s Beauty and the Beast was seen as little more than a glorified theme park show when it opened on Broadway in 1994, but managed a decade-plus run and tons of professional and amateur productions. Since then many other grandiose family-friendly musicals have come down the pike â€” all adapted from well-known stories, and many outright Screen to Stage Adaptations as Beauty was. Most see only a few raves among seas of notices that are So Okay, It's Average at best and Beauty-level pans at worst (only The Lion King and Matilda are truly embraced by critics) but some soldier on to win the hearts of audiences anyway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Christmas Story, and Mary Poppins are all success stories. Part of this dissonance owes to the fact that while critics and many â€˜seriousâ€™ musical-theatre fans prefer more sophisticated fare like Stephen Sondheim shows, The Book of Mormon or Next to Normal, those shows arenâ€™t exactly suitable for families.
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Critical Dissonance / int_3c08531b	comment	Avengers Assemble is generally seen in a mixed reception kind of light. However, that didn't stop it from getting 5 seasons and 127 episodes, making it the longest-running Marvel cartoon.
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Critical Dissonance / int_3ce6a231	comment	We Will Rock You was panned when it opened in London, but word of mouth kept it alive, turning it into a sellout show that ran for over a decade and launched several sister productions elsewhere.
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Critical Dissonance / int_3d6f1647	comment	Fellow Cartoon Network series Squirrel Boy was considered to be decent by professional critics and its target audience of children liked it just fine, but the mixed-to-negative reception from the network's Periphery Demographic resulted in the show's early cancellation.
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Critical Dissonance / int_40ef1034	comment	The Seven Deadly Sins won the Best ShÅ�nen Manga at the 39th Kodansha Manga Awards and was nominated for the 2014 Manga TaishÅ� award and Best Youth Comic at the 42nd AngoulÃªme International Comics Festival in France. Amongst the manga community, The Seven Deadly Sins is one of the most hated shÅ�nen series and experienced widespread derision since it ended.note Much of this has to do with how most of the plot ended up being tied to romance, the uncomfortableness of Meliodas and Ban's relationships with Elizabeth and Elaine, the ridiculousness of the power-scaling, the anti-climactic final villain in the Demon King, and the finale's Arc Fatigue. Not helping is the very shoddy anime adaptation of Season 3 and onwards by Studio DEEN which became ridiculed by many for its poor, stiff animation and off-model art.
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Critical Dissonance / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life received dismal reviews from Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, panning it for allegedly copying The Ren & Stimpy Show. In stark contrast, audiences consider it to be among the network's best series. The fan following it maintained over the years was strong enough for Nickelodeon to produce a proper finale for the show long after it ended.
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Critical Dissonance / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion has been almost unanimously positively reviewed by professional anime/manga critics, yet it's a very divisive series within the world of anime fandom, with some finding the tone way too dark, the cast having so many issues that they're under-developed or unlikable, and an ending that was hard for many to understand, among others.
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Critical Dissonance / int_4509d2d4	comment	The "Female Thor series" re-direction for The Mighty Thor is another hugely contentious Marvel work. Critics absolutely adored the idea of relaunching one of Marvel's most iconic heroes as a woman, whilst fans were torn between those who agreed and a very vocal alignment of those who hated the idea, citing a vast list of problems with the series' execution ranging from the handling of "the Thor identity"note unlike most superheroes, Thor is the character's actual name, but the series treats it as a "handle", which results in something akin to Spider-Woman running around calling herself "Peter Parker", to the reduction of many characters to straw misogynists in order to make Female Thor look better.
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Critical Dissonance / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld for a while â€” at the time when Terry Pratchett was being claimed as "the most shoplifted author in Britain", most critics seemed mildly baffled by him. Eventually, it went meta; by the 2000s the majority of reviews were hailing him as a genius while claiming that all other critics were blinded by genre snobbery.
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Critical Dissonance / int_4dd947ba	comment	Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, the sequel to Fusion, is considered by many fans to be the worst series of the franchise for numerous criticisms like its two unlikable, underdeveloped leads who replaced the ones from the previous series. Despite this, the series was nominated for Best Animation at the 2012 International Emmy Kids Awards.
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Critical Dissonance / int_4fb39203	comment	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain is typically seen as an unneeded retool of a series that was already doing fine, and one that was simply lit by Executive Meddling, to the point that it went unmentioned when the original Pinky and the Brain series was released on DVD. Critics loved it, though, and it won several awards (including an Emmy) during its really short run.
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Critical Dissonance / int_58532c2b	comment	Atomic Puppet did quite well with professional critics and animators, seeing how the series was nominated for two Annie Awards, as well as a Reuben Award for Best Animated Series (alongside The Loud House and The Simpsons, both immensely praised series), and the Dallas Morning News called it "a hoot of a superhero show". However, casual fans and viewers were more mixed to the series, with the show earning a lousy 5.1 on IMDb and user reviews on Common Sense Media dismissing the series as generic and mediocre.
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Critical Dissonance / int_593d0ca4	comment	Gail Simoneâ€™s The Movement was critically beloved, but readers couldnâ€™t have cared less about it, leading to it being Cut Short just as its plot was kicking into high gear. Nowadays, it's more or less forgotten outside of the tiny, niche fanbase it formed during its brief run.
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Critical Dissonance / int_5ae078da	comment	ECW on the other hand was mostly hated by the Dave Meltzer types at the time, even though it had the biggest buzz in wrestling for a while and the Attitude Era was pretty much a direct ripoff of ECW, albeit with much better talent. Newsletters claimed that for every great technical or high flying match you might see the rest of the card was nothing but guys bashing each other in the heads with whatever was lying around ringside, which was a very valid criticism. Even more than the Attitude Era, ECW is looked at as having really not having aged well, especially when you take into account the physical damage that style of wrestling did to the workers, many of whom didn't even live to see 50.
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Critical Dissonance / int_5bfb6e68	comment	Summer Rae. The casual audiences couldn't give less of a fuck about her, as she was little more than a heel Jobber who occasionally got fluke wins, and that's not even getting into the near-universally panned love quadrilateral storyline with Rusev, Lana and Dolph Ziggler during 2015. However, smarks, particularly those who saw her work in NXT, consider her an underrated talent with much potential dealt a bad hand on the main roster.
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Critical Dissonance / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover performs very well in popularity polls in Weekly Shonen Jump, both the Japanese and English versions, but gets mediocre to negative reviews overall (even going as far to be deemed the worst manga of 2016 at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con). Detractors call the series highly formulaic and derivative, resulting in a boring read for those who have already read a lot of Shonen action manga, and it also doesn't help matters that it's compared unfavorably to its more critically acclaimed, popular and well-regarded contemporaries.note Compare and contrast Blue Exorcist and fellow Weekly Shonen Jump titles My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen, all of which have been criticized for relying on cliches and stereotypes.
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Critical Dissonance / int_5eb99c57	comment	Fifty Shades of Grey sold remarkably well. Quite a few literature/English majors, participants in the actual world of BDSM, and critics as a whole despise it.
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Critical Dissonance / int_637e942e	comment	Avengers Arena and its sequel Avengers Undercover. Professional reviewers loved them and praised their social satire and Anyone Can Die tone. Readers were divided at best on the former and almost entirely despised the latter, which ended up getting axed at only ten issues.
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Critical Dissonance / int_69392c59	comment	The Cinema Snob was made as a response to this trope. Brad Jones created his snob-persona to make fun of Exploitation Films because he felt it was weird that film critics panned those films for lacking qualities they werenâ€™t supposed to have.
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Critical Dissonance / int_6b681688	comment	Batman (Tom King) by Tom King won multiple awards (including several "Best of the Decade" ones). You wouldn't know that, considering the tepid to downright hostile reception it had from the fans. Critics enjoyed it as an ambitious and in-depth character study of Batman, while fans hated it for the darker-than-usual atmosphere and the general sidelining of the rest of the Bat-Family. Bruce's characterization becoming Unintentionally Unsympathetic as he started abusing said family after the failed Bat/Cat wedding (which in itself was hated) certainly didn't help and proved to be one of the most controversial aspects of the run. The Bruce/Selina romance also became contentious, as while it was initially welcomed, it became divisive after it started consuming the plot the more Bruce became obsessed with it post-wedding.
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Critical Dissonance / int_6c70d88b	comment	The Attitude Era is considered by many fans to be WWE's apex (considering that it's WWE's most profitable period, had the highest ratings ever and unquestionably saved them from WCW's wrath, this opinion isn't unfounded). However, it's divisive to many other fans now because of the rampant misogyny, occasional homophobia and racism and match quality (which even at the time was pretty devisive), and there's a growing Hype Backlash towards that era in favor of the Ruthless Aggression Era, which, while still quite crude, is almost unanimously agreed to have had consistently better matches.
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Critical Dissonance / int_6ef03be6	comment	My Gym Partner's a Monkey was generally seen as a solid series by the few mainstream critics who noticed it at the time, but audiences were pretty divided on it, with some deeming it one of Cartoon Network's worst animated series and many others calling it So Okay, It's Average at best. However, the series did prove fairly successful with target audiences.
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Critical Dissonance / int_7219e05	comment	The Clique, at least when the books first came out. Critics hated them, but they were bestsellers and beloved by their demographic. Fast forward to today, however, and said demographic has grown up, realized all the Fridge Horror and Dude, Not Funny! moments in the series, and now theyâ€™re nigh-universally despised.
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Critical Dissonance / int_7336205a	comment	Molly Holly is praised by smarks as one of the greatest female wrestlers ever, a Hall of Fame talent who never botched and could carry lesser opponents to a decent match. However, casual fans didn't care anything about her, partly because she was a devout Christian and refused to have the blatant sex appeal her colleagues did, partly because she was too willing to let others shine at her expense, and partly because she was too gung-ho to make herself the butt of comedy spots.
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Critical Dissonance / int_73e1e827	comment	Sanjay and Craig is another example of being popular with children but hated by adults. Unlike the aforementioned Breadwinners, though, people warmed up to it somewhat from its second season onward instead of hating it even more. In addition, the few professional critics who paid attention to the show gave it mixed-to-positive reviews from the beginning. Notably, the San Francisco Chronicle praised it for its witty writing and The AV Club gave the first two episodes an "A" grade.
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Critical Dissonance / int_7669911c	comment	A recurring theme in House to Astonish is comics that are praised to the skies, but nobody actually reads, and which are therefore doomed to be cancelled after six issues, no matter how good they might be. However, rather than suggest there's a dichotomy between what comics critics like and what the public like, Al and Paul reckon that comics readers have been trained to believe that anything outside the norm (which is what critics tend to like) isn't worth picking up because it won't affect the DC/Marvel Meta Plot and will probably be cancelled after six issues anyway.
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Critical Dissonance / int_7c96a245	comment	Not a wrestler, but a storyline. In October of 2009 Mickie James (who is almost universally liked by both casual fans and smart marks) had been moved from Raw to SmackDown. LayCool (the Heel duo of Michelle McCool and Layla, both of whom were stick-thin) began making fun of her and calling her "Piggy James" for supposedly being overweight, which initially drove Mickie to tears before she started fighting back. Despite winning her fifth and final Women's Championship from McCool, Mickie ultimately lost the feud and was subsequently released from WWE. Numerous critics and smart marks hated it (though Diva Dirt were more sympathetic to it) claiming that the opinions of LayCool reflected those of WWE's management (since they used to focus on Hollywood Thin supermodel-type women) and LayCool received a fair amount of X-Pac Heat because of it. Mickie listed it as one of the better feuds she had done during her time in WWE. Other fans pointed out that the commentators and other women made it perfectly clear that they didn't think Mickie was fat at all, that it was the first real storyline the Divas had in a while, and that many who criticized the angle were being hypocritical, since numerous smarks had been calling Mickie fat for ages.
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Critical Dissonance / int_7f6eb95d	comment	One review of Romeo and Juliet's premiere described it as â€œa mawkish melodrama which, God willing, will see no second performance.â€�
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Critical Dissonance / int_7ff3216c	comment	Garfield and Friends was poorly-reviewed during its time, gaining ire from both the Los Angeles Times and the Pittsburgh Press. Audiences, however, often consider it one of the best cartoons to come out of the The '80s, the best thing to come out of the Garfield franchise, and a forerunner of The Renaissance Age of Animation.
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Critical Dissonance / int_8075edc8	comment	Brickleberry was disparaged as a wannabe Family Guy clone in a time where Family Guy isn't seen as much better in hindsight, yet the Internet Movie Database gives the show a 7.4 score.
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Critical Dissonance / int_89f2031	comment	Tokyo Revengers has won the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category and ranked 9th in the "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine. However, among Western anime and manga fans the series is one of the most hated modern shonen, with critics bringing up its unrealisticness, repetitive story, and divisive main character. Not helping was Hype Backlash and the manga entering its divisive final arc around the time the series was gaining a lot of popularity.
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Critical Dissonance / int_8cc1090a	comment	Margaret Keaneâ€™s paintings of vulnerable angels and waifs with enormous doe-like eyes are widely reproduced and appear in a lot of households. Youâ€™ll never see her work being exhibited in a serious museum, though. In Sleeper, by intellectual darling Woody Allen, it's even joked that in the future Keane will be considered one of the greatest artists in history.
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Critical Dissonance / int_99885b85	comment	Velma got mixed-to-negative reviews from professional critics and was absolutely despised by online commentators, uniting people across cultural and political lines to rag on it as one of the worst animated series ever made. Left-leaning critics thought that its Adaptational Diversity was an attempt to cover for mean-spirited writing that was rooted in dated and offensive stereotypes, right-leaning critics opposed its Adaptational Diversity in general and saw its writing as bigoted against white men, and nearly everybody thought that its Animated Shock Comedy take on the Scooby-Doo franchise was outright Canon Defilement. And yet, despite (or perhaps because of) the controversy swirling around it as well as the turmoil at Warner Bros. Discovery that was causing them to cancel many TV shows, it wound up as the most popular animated series on HBO Max and was quickly renewed for a second season.
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Critical Dissonance / int_99f7471e	comment	Jommeke: In Flanders, itâ€™s among the most popular, best-known and top-selling comic strips, widely read among children and remembered fondly by many adults who grew up with them. Yet serious readers have always looked down upon them because it is extremely bland, formulaic, naÃ¯ve and conventional. Only in the final years leading to his death did creator Jef Nys finally get some kind of serious attention and praise for his work, though the taboo still remains.
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Critical Dissonance / int_9ab064e6	comment	Les MisÃ©rables, which has been running nonstop for thirty-plus years in London and played to over 60 million people worldwide, was derided when it first opened, being accused of being glum and mawkish. The 2012 movie adaptation received a similar reception but was a box-office smash to the point that USA Today did a feature story about the dissonance.
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Critical Dissonance / int_9cdbcbaa	comment	Bordertown was doomed to fail with critics and ratings. But it did solid with audiences via IMDB and TV.com and viewed it as one of Fox's better animated shows.
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Critical Dissonance / int_9d9c71a4	comment	The My Little Pony (G3) specials are not well-liked by the general public (outside of its target demographic), but several specials score around six or seven on IMDb.
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Critical Dissonance / int_9e9b57f1	comment	The Sorrows of Satan was critically panned when it was first released in 1895, but it was hugely popular, becoming one of the first modern bestsellers, and was praised by people including Oscar Wilde.
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Critical Dissonance / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The first three movies were the only ones to receive widespread release in the U.S., and all of them were critically panned, in the west at least (the first movie was more well-regarded by Japanese critics). However, they are generally considered good by both audiences and PokÃ©mon fans (the English dub of the first movie notwithstanding), and are better regarded than most of the subsequent sixteen (and counting!) sequels. PokÃ©mon: The Series is often criticized for its Strictly Formula nature ever since Takeshi Shudō left, as well as refusing to age the characters with each passing year. Yet, despite the decline in popularity it experienced in the Johto series, it still maintains high ratings in both Japan and the U.S. and has a large and devoted fanbase.
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Critical Dissonance / int_a3f96576	comment	FC De Kampioenen: This comic strip is based on the popularity of the Flemish sitcom of the same name and the last comic strip launched in Flanders to still sell in enormous quantities. It has even survived the original sitcom which has now been cancelled in 2011. Despite being a huge bestseller, critics who consider the creatorâ€™s other works to be much better loathe it.
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Critical Dissonance / int_a552d172	comment	The controversial 2023 anime adaptation of ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! from Studio Bind gained almost nothing but negative reception upon its original release from western critics and audiences alike for its unconventional story and presentation, but was a major success in Japan, becoming both the top rated and highest selling anime of its respective season, praised for its heartwarming themes and characters.
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Critical Dissonance / int_a96a7ada	comment	All incarnations of Yu-Gi-Oh! have been huge financial successes and run for years, but many people outside the demographic consider them to be little more than either glorified card game commercials or watered down garbage. Complaints include overreliance on gimmicks.
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Critical Dissonance / int_b0605518	comment	Sid's polar opposite would probably be Dean Malenko. Considered one of the best technical wrestlers in the world (if not the best) by smarks and ragsheets, to the point that he was #1 in the 1997 Pro Wrestling Illustrated "PWI 500" when no one really did well enough in kayfabe to earn the top spotnote The WWF title was a bit of a mess during the grading period (in this case from August 1996 to July 1997) due to injuries, "injuries", titles being relinquished, and contract holdouts. Steve Austin was the highest ranked WWF wrestler at #3 despite never even holding the title, on the other channel Hulk Hogan held the WCW title for nearly that entire year but because he was on the Brock Lesnar schedule he fell to 55th because his output was so low, and because the few matches he did have almost always involved a fuck finish. Mitsuharu Misawa of All Japan Pro Wrestling was #2 for those curious, and Tazz was the top ranked ECW wrestler at #11 and PWI awarded it to who they called the best wrestler. Outside of one program with Chris Jericho (which can be credited to Jericho's usual stellar work as a heel), crowds never really gave a shit about Dean unless the rest of the The Four Horsemen were standing next to him. Kevin Nash got torn apart for calling The Radicals (Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and Perry Saturn) "vanilla midgets" after they fled up north, but with Dean he might have had a point; Dean was never the best talker and even many people who are fans of his will admit that he had the charisma of a block of ice (ironically, one of Dean's nicknames was "The Iceman").
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Critical Dissonance / int_b527a8f4	comment	Jon Moxley. Look almost anywhere online and you'll find that professional critics like Jim Cornette or just anonymous online commentators on wrestling websites love to dogpile on Moxley and trash him for his persona, his wrestling ability, him being a "garbage wrestler", and almost anything you can think of. On the other hand, when you take a look at Moxley in AEW or any other indy wrestling ring, the live audience absolutely loves him and Moxley always has them pumped up and cheering with his promos and matches.
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Critical Dissonance / int_b7190456	comment	America (2017) is the best example of this in the already contentious All-New Marvel lineup. Critics adored the series for starring a lesbian person of color, America Chavez, as its main character; readers instead considered it one of the worst series in the lineup, criticizing it as poorly written with an Unintentionally Unsympathetic main character, narmy dialoguenote Does "Holy Menstruation!" ring a bell?, nonsensical plot decisionsnote in the first issue, America breaks up with her longtime girlfriend because she doesn't want to join her in moving for college — even though America's primary superpower is teleporting and hamfisted political viewpoint pushingnote in particular, the constant reminders that America is a lesbian Latina grated on many readers. On Comic Book Roundup, its lowest Critics rating from the first 10 issues is a 6.9; in contrast, its highest User rating from that same period is only 3.7. The most telling aspect of dissonance? Entertainment Weekly named America Superhero of the Year because of her solo; the next day, her book was revealed to have been cancelled, likely due to its abysmal sales.
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Critical Dissonance / int_b82c33f4	comment	And then there's Sid, who was hated by wrestling critics and many smarks for his lack of technical ability, unintelligible promos, his tendency to quit and go play softball in the middle of anglesnote This isn't a joke, Sid loves softball and it often took priority over his wrestling career, and other unprofessional behavior (nearly stabbing Arn Anderson to death certainly didn't win him too many friends, it also got him shitcanned and cost him a world title run). Didn't stop the crowds that were actually in the arenas from going crazy for him, and when he managed to show up and do what he was told he usually drew decent money. Today the smart fan crowd tends to appreciate Sid a little more (he's often called the best "bad" wrestler) thanks to having the kind of look and charisma (not to the mention the "what the hell is this nutjob gonna do this week?" factor) that is sorely lacking in current pro wrestling.
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Critical Dissonance / int_b8b10e08	comment	Pogo has always been more popular with fans of good satire than regular comic fans, who would find it too pretentious.
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Critical Dissonance / int_b98da5d2	comment	Love Hina was adored by critics, but many audiences, especially over time, dislike it for using or inventing some of the most hated cliches in harem manga and anime, most of the characters being Jerk Asses, or for constantly playing what looks like domestic abuse for laughs. To say nothing of the quality of the English, Latin American Spanish, and German dubs. This was Lampshaded by Bennett the Sage in one of his reviews for the series, whenever there was a scene he found really absurd, he made quotes from positive reviews appear on the screen.
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Critical Dissonance / int_bb7d6a95	comment	Duckman received great reviews from TV critics, intellectuals and people who liked its satirical bite. But at best the show could only get a cult following due to the relatively few people who watched USA Network.
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Critical Dissonance / int_bb849177	comment	Goldberg. Crowds have always been crazy about Goldberg (aside from a few incidents in his WWE runs) due to his intensity and devastating Spear and Jackhammer finisher. However, his reception among smart marks has never been great. He's often accused by smarks of being incredibly limited in the ring (especially during his second WWE run, largely due to his age), an unsafe worker (a botched superkick from Goldberg to Bret Hart gave Bret a severe concussion which led to Bret's retirement and neither smarks nor Bret have forgiven Goldberg for the kick) and a jerk who doesn't care about wrestling and is only involved in wrestling for the paycheck (He did watch some wrestling as a kid, but was never a huge fan of it and pursued a wrestling career because his NFL career was a bust and he had no other options. Smarks tend to dislike wrestlers who didn't come from a wrestling background nor were fans of wrestling growing up).
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Critical Dissonance / int_bc848d30	comment	Seasons 6 and 8 of SpongeBob SquarePants received mixed-to-positive reviews from professional critics. Fans, on the other hand, absolutely loathe both of them for their abuse of gross-out humor and mean-spirited plots. This trope does not apply to Season 7, which was lambasted by critics and fans alike.
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Critical Dissonance / int_be03a5ee	comment	The Left Behind series of Christian apocalyptic fiction fits into this, as the critical response to the books tended to accuse them of starring dull, unlikable characters and having a plot only made possible by an ostensibly Like Reality, Unless Noted Earth populated with Flat Earth Atheists.note As the seriesâ€™ plot is based on a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation, this is a case of All There in the Manual. However, it sold amazingly well, constantly enjoying New York Times bestseller status, and is regarded as one of the most influential pieces of contemporary â€œChristianâ€� fiction.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c01ca2df	comment	Kelly Kelly was insanely over in the PG Era, and even Diva Dirt writers warmed up to her. Anyone outside the Diva-fan demographic utterly hated her guts.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c06a9c1c	comment	Critics have been mixed towards Final Space; fans and members of online animation communities, however, have been far more positive with the series, especially once it more clearly started to develop into a more serious plot driven show, and because of it trying hard to not be reliant on vulgarity and meanness for the sake of it like Animated Shock Comedies are so often known for. Season 2 received somewhat more positive reviews from the professional critics that did review it, although it also didn't receive as many reviews from them as the first season did due to a lot of critics being underwhelmed by the first season and not feeling like the show was worth their time as a result.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c0eadab8	comment	Sonic X generally received mixed to positive reviews. Fans generally consider the show's first two seasons to be mediocre at best, with Season 3 being considered either the best season or the worst.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c1a0f861	comment	Mamma Mia! â€” this fluffy Jukebox Musical is a symbol of the Lowest Common Denominator to hardcore musical-theatre lovers, and its 2008 movie adaptation didnâ€™t wow film critics, but itâ€™s sort of the Lighter and Softer Les Miserables when one looks at its global popularity.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c3210502	comment	The most despised wrestler among the smart mark crowd is none other than Hulk Hogan, for most of the same reasons as Kevin Nash. He still had legions of Hulkamaniacs and got standing ovations whenever he appeared on TV...until he was caught on tape being racist and was publically called out by other wrestlers like The New Day. The WWE still trots him out on occasion but his appearances now are controversial.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels was well-recieved by critics during its first season, but Star Wars fans were dissatisfied with it. As they disliked the new art-style and the more childish plotlines when compared to Star Wars: The Clone Wars (though Clone Wars had its fair share of growing pains as well). However, this changed as the show went on, with it now being regarded by both fans and critics as one of the best Star Wars shows ever made. Because of this, criticisms of the first season are now considerably muted than they were at the time of its release. This would happen again with Star Wars Resistance, yet again, the show was positively reviewed by critics (even being nominated for two Emmys) but Star Wars fans saw it as inferior to the two previous shows, oh, and they disliked the new art-style and more childish plotlines. While the second season improved the opinion of fans, the show was cancelled shortly after that, so because it only ran for two seasons (as opposed to Clone Wars' 7 seasons and Rebels 4) means that the show never truly found its footing.
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Critical Dissonance / int_c8be1c93	comment	Digimon Adventure: (2020) has been well-received critically; with many praising the changes in direction from the original Digimon Adventure. Fan reaction has been much more mixed for much of the same reasons.
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Critical Dissonance / int_ccbaad5d	comment	Judging for several critics's reviews, one could think that Digimon Fusion was a sound success in general. While critics liked the show and it did had a relatively strong merchandising presence, Fusion ultimately failed to endear itself to fans and harvested the lowest ratings in the entire Digimon franchise, to the point its sequel series was never dubbed. Even today, the most popular opinion in the internet is that it was So Okay, It's Average with few really memorable elements.
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Critical Dissonance / int_cf92e85a	comment	Like Fifty Shades a few decades later, Jacqueline Susann's work gained notoriety partly from the mere fact that its trashy, critically-lambasted prurience was so popular.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show recieved mixed reviews (and some backlash) from critics and fans of the original Looney Tunes because of the character redesigns and the change in humor from Tongue-in-cheek slapstick comedy to low-key, Slice of Life sitcom. Despite this, the show was much better recieved by younger audiences and does have a devoted fanbase that appreciated the Seinfeld esque humor acknowleding that it wasn't competing or trying to replace the original Looney Tunes, but rather be a different interpretation of well-known characters. To make things even more confusing, critics and audiences tend to agree that changing Lola Bunny from Ms. Fanservice to scatterbrained Valley Girl was a welcome change but die-hard Lola Bunny fans were less pleased with the change.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga gets a mention here too. Successful as it was (in its target market, at least), many readers still avoid it like the plague years after the fad ended. Whatâ€™s funny is that Twilightâ€™s original target demographic has by now outgrown the books themselves.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d22a9a66	comment	Critical reception to Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf has always been mixed-to-positive and news sources are often impressed at how long the show's been around. Viewer reception is often negative-to-mixed with many viewers considering it childish or flat.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d29275fa	comment	Contrary to popular belief, the infamous witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum was condemned by much of the Catholic Church, the Inquisition, and the Pope himself for its Insane Troll Logic and rampant misogyny (yes, it was considered misogynistic in the fifteenth century, that's how bad it was). Unfortunately, the lay people took it to be completely valid, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d3332a46	comment	In one The Comics Curmudgeon post, Josh went on a tangent about NCIS and Mad Men, pointing out that NCIS averages nearly ten times the maximum viewership of the critically-acclaimed series, and TV critics don't even acknowledge it exists.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d4cb8a02	comment	Natalya Neidhart is one of the favourites on Diva Dirt but smarks tend to be indifferent to her. Likewise with Alicia Fox.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d5caef92	comment	Super Sonico get mixed to negative reviews from Anime reviewers on the web, but the few Anime fans that have given the series a chance has been much kinder.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series is often criticized for its Strictly Formula nature ever since Takeshi Shudō left, as well as refusing to age the characters with each passing year. Yet, despite the decline in popularity it experienced in the Johto series, it still maintains high ratings in both Japan and the U.S. and has a large and devoted fanbase.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d6f42e48	comment	Jacqueline. Audiences outside the South Eastern US never cared for her (WWE crowds would often be dead when she'd enter the arena), but she's one of the more well-respected competitors among Smart Marks.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d7aab7c1	comment	The original anime adaptation of Sailor Moon is one of the most iconic anime series of the '90s and among the most popular and recognized anime of all time, but if you asked some critics what they thought about it, they'd likely call it nothing more than formulaic Magical Girl fare, likely because the series suffers a big case of Once Original, Now Common.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d85a4c96	comment	Bless the Harts. It is positively received by professional critics with an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes from them, but general audiences tend to dislike the show, with a paltry 4.8/10 on IMDb and a 49% audience Tomatometer, accusing it of copying other Fox animated sitcoms. Season 2 was viewed by audiences as an improvement, but not by much, so the show was unceremoniously cancelled after that.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d908efc	comment	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba faces criticism from anime critics and the more hardcore side of the anime fandom in contrast to mainstream audiences. While Demon Slayer is perhaps one of the most successful anime franchises in the late 2010s/early 2020s where mainstream audiences praise it mainly due to its themes, action sequences and especially its art, many critics and hardcore anime fans believe that when one looks past the manga's art and the anime's high production values, it's really an average battle shonen series with a simplistic storyline and out of place comedy (with sidekicks whom some may not tolerate), which clashes with its serious tone and graphic violence.
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Critical Dissonance / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park episode "Stanley's Cup" was well-liked by critics, with IGN giving it a 9.1 out of 10 and calling it a funny satire of sports movies. However, general audiences were far less positive on the episode, due to the widely-disliked Downer Ending even by the standards of the Sadist Show, where Stan's pee-wee hockey team gets crushed by the much-larger Detroit Red Wings and one of their players dies of cancer afterwards.
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Critical Dissonance / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra has been well-received by critics with positive reviews all around. Fans, on the other hand, had a more mixed reception, viewing it as a Contested Sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender. However, with the arrival of Book 3, the series has become universally acclaimed by both critics and fans as well, with the remaining detractors mainly being The Last Airbender purists.
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Critical Dissonance / int_dc46d036	comment	Corto Maltese is praised as one of the most important and impressive comic strips of the 20th century, yet the general public has usually not even heard of it.
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Critical Dissonance / int_ddd4b174	comment	Despite being the biggest licensed board game in the world, Monopoly is almost universally maligned by tabletop gaming enthusiasts due to its emphasis on luck, player elimination, and the tendency of one player to gain an early runaway lead with little chance of anyone else catching up.
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Critical Dissonance / int_e25dd7d7	comment	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017) received fair reviews from professional critics and was nominated for two awards.note A Saturn Award and a Canadian Screen Award Most fans of the films, however, loathe it for Flanderizing the characters, its clichÃ©d and/or dumb stories, the cheap-looking character designs, and many Series Continuity Errors with the films.
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Critical Dissonance / int_e45a08d4	comment	Urbanus: In its early run it was a cult among the general audience in Flanders, mostly because of the fame of the comedian on which it was based, but critics absolutely despised its art which may go down as some of the ugliest art in a comic book ever this side of Pitch. As time changed and the art style got better critics started to like it as well, especially because the comedian has a good grasp of what the author is doing, but is still dismissed by hipsters. Seeing as they are targets of mockery itâ€™s very understandable.
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Critical Dissonance / int_e8c699a9	comment	A fan of the cult-classic book (and movie) Mommie Dearest would probably be shocked to find how much critics hated it, as well as other stars of The Golden Age of Hollywood who actually had known Joan Crawford and her adopted children and wrote in their own autobiographies how off-base the book was. Faye Dunaway said she wished she hadnâ€™t acted in that movie after it hurt her career.
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Critical Dissonance / int_e9637723	comment	Santino Marella was pretty over in his time, but critics never rated his matches very high. Smarks consider him an embarrassment.
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Critical Dissonance / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Within the series, "Life of Brian" is one of the most despised episodes among the fanbase for being a shameless Ratings Stunt. The AV Club, however, gave it an A-, the highest grade out of any Season 12 episode. "Send in Stewie, Please" garnered similar reactions. Critics loved the episode, and Gary Janetti was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the episode's script (though he didn't win). Among the fanbase, the episode is highly polarizing; some fans liked how it explored Stewie, while other fans found the episode boring and pointless. "Brian Writes a Bestseller" received a positive review from The AV Club, saying that it had "just about everything you'd ask for from the show". Among the fandom, the episode is very divisive due to Brian's Jerkass behavior. In addition, The AV Club singled out the Bill Maher scene as the only thing they didn't like about the episode, whereas many fans found the scene incredibly cathartic. On the other side, thereâ€™s â€œBig Man on Hippocampusâ€�. Many fans felt it was better than most of the rest of Season 8, gaining a pretty healthy 7.6/10 on IMDb and was on the most downloaded episodes list on iTunes 2010 Rewind. However, professional critics loathed it; the AV Club stated its plot was â€œa thin spine to hang jokes onâ€� and gave it a D.
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Critical Dissonance / int_ec265308	comment	There's also Shelton Benjamin. Like Malenko he's brilliant in-ring worker with a strong pedigree (he was a two-time NCAA All-American wrestler at the University of Minnesota and was college roommates with Brock Lesnar, and came from the same training program that gave us John Cena, Randy Orton, Batista, Lesnar, and basically every other major and minor homegrown star of the Ruthless Aggression Era) who everyone can agree puts on great matches, but like Malenko he's not particularly charismatic, can't cut a decent promo to save his life, and has never really connected with the crowd. He's spent most of his career in a tag team or as part of a stable and although he has had a few midcard singles title reigns, has never really received a serious singles push.
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Critical Dissonance / int_ec2c42ce	comment	Maria Kanellis (at least during her first WWE tenure). Diva Dirt writers didn't like her at all and expressed shock at the great reactions she got from fans in the arenas. She claims she would frequently check the ratings of the different segments. The WWE Diva Search was reviled by smarks, yet according to Maria, the segments were some of the highest rated on the show. That only applies to the 2004 and 2005 versions though, since, by 2006, the live audiences booed the shit out of those segments.
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Critical Dissonance / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender: The show has a notably loathed final season. Despite this, the critics praised it and gave it a 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This is 80% more than the audience gave.
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Critical Dissonance / int_f1606a0e	comment	Hot Gimmick has received mixed/poor reviews. Despite this, it has sold well as it had a twelve-volume run. In some circles, however, saying youâ€™re a fan of Hot Gimmick will get you very dirty looks.
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Critical Dissonance / int_f31d7d98	comment	Drawn Together was polarizing by critics, but those who hated it, really hated it. (to the point where the show made an episode about it after Entertainment Weekly gave the show an F), yet it managed to gain a cult following during its relatively short run.
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Critical Dissonance / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera received a lot of pans in its initial stagings in London, New York, and Toronto, but to say it rode those reviews out is an understatement â€” it celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in London in 2016 and reached that same milestone in New York in January 2018, with a myriad of foreign and touring productions as well.
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Critical Dissonance / int_fb4e4429	comment	The Mike Hammer books by Mickey Spillane were hated by critics back in the day, and to a degree they still are. On the other hand, in 1980 Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 bestselling books in America, and his books have been adapted into successful movies, TV shows, and radio dramas. Spillane himself mocked this trope, stating that he didnâ€™t care what critics thought so much as what his fans thought.
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