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Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by ramblerman on Saturday September 22, 2012 @12:29PM (#4558221)
" I can't even find the MASH TV show, only the movie. Pretty weird considering that it's considered the 2nd best TV comedy of all time. #74 'Seinfeld' - considered the 3rd best TV comedy of all time."

Are you really criticizing the subjectivity of this list based on the subjective rankings of your generation?

Also game of thrones is brilliant, imo.

Re:Show HN: 5000 best movies by Zimahl on Saturday September 22, 2012 @04:25PM (#4558902)
I'm saying you are clearly seeing a generational and tech savvy bias to the rankings. For Avengers to be so high shows it's good movie, and it is. But the fanboyism of the comic-reading, tech savvy audience is skewing the metric way higher than it should be.

The same thing is happening with Game of Thrones. It's excellent but I've seen many, many TV dramas that are just as good if not better.

Comedy is a terrible example to criticize due to it tending to be very cross-generational. MASH, Seinfeld, and I Love Lucy are still shown on TV today. MASH and I Love Lucy on more obscure cable channels, but Seinfeld still is on in reruns for an hour before primetime TV on our CBS affiliate.