_VEndeTta Wrote:Well, I'm going off the assumption that he isn't watching it for himself, but, rather, he completes series because he felt responsible for rating it on his thread/website.

That's certainly an interesting assumption...
I wouldn't selectively watch things for ratings, rather, I'd rate what I watch.

_VEndeTta Wrote:You can't give something an accurate rating if you only watch the first few episodes. I mean, look at the first episode of Haruhi...It's awful, atrocious, and boring, and tedious. And yet the series is considered one of the best in the last decade.

Depends on who you're going on.  I think there's many people who would consider otherwise.  It hasn't even appeared in the top 10 of any "major" anime rating chart I've seen.
Yes, you can't rate an anime series based on the first part of it, but you can rate an anime series without watching things from different genres. :P
Watching different genres may change your ideas, but then, there's so many other things which may as well, such as lifestyle decisions.

_VEndeTta Wrote:

Quote:Why would you watch something that you probably wouldn't like?! O_o

I don't like romance anime, but I still enjoyed Love Hina and The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi and
Princess Mononoke, I despise Big Robot Anime, but I still loved Evangelion, Etc. There are plenty of
anime I enjoy that are in genres I despise.

Ahh, you're confusing yourself.  You only watched them because you thought you might enjoy them.  If you have the thought stuck into your head that you're going to hate an anime that you're about to watch, even if it turns out good, you'll probably still find it hard to not hate it (psychology :P).
Whereas, you, being a little more open minded than that, don't judge an anime by it's genre.