Talk:CaT Reviews: BBO Season 4!/@comment-4816710-20160601003513/@comment-1824169-20160601192409

I wouldn't call it a 'rant' in any way, you were calm and rationally made some good points.

I don't believe I'll be changing the rating in the future, however, and I'd like to be perfectly clear as to why.

In addition to these reviews being based around my opinion, they're also largely based around a standard 'critic mindset', as it were, and to be frank, the 'Plug 'N Play' style of storytelling (taking something from a different work and plugging it directly into your own) is critical suicide unless you're specifically creating a parody or crossover of some sort.

Even taking everything from Red Vs Blue out of the picture, there are still 'Plug 'N Play' elements everywhere. Whiplash literally just being Lobo, Orion Pax being...well, yeah, and endless amount of images taken from Google without any credit given to the creators.

I understand that you don't consider originality to be very important, and this is all very common by fanfiction standards, but I don't make these reviews around fanfiction standards. I make them around standard...standards, and although I did sorta glance over this stuff in the initial review, it really is a problem, critically speaking, one which I think justifies the new 5/10 score.

I think the main issue here is that you made something for purely casual enjoyment and had me put it up to non-casual scrutiny. There's nothing wrong with doing what you want with this series, but from the critical standpoint of a lengthy review like this, you have to understand that it's not going to do that favorably.