Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26234227-20151106103951/@comment-25926288-20151106184418

Applegirl wrote: I believe it's fine to be critical about the show, the episodes and characters for both things that were good and bad. Let's be real. No show is 100% perfectly written to how each of us will walk away from seeing each episode with the belief that everything about it had no flaws or things we didn't like. Criticism is not unusual, and neither is everyone having different perceptions about the episodes. What is most important, I think, is when there is criticism, there's a good and and bad way to go about it. People can disagree about the direction of the show/storyline or even express disdain for characters they don't like, but as long as the opinion is given respectfully, I don't think there is a problem. The most a thread like that does is generate good conversation for analyzing the subject matter (whether it's about an episode, character, storyline, etc) because with any show fandom, people have diverse opinions, and just because the majority say yay or nay to a character or episode doesn't mean there aren't people on the other side of the spectrum. I completely agree.

We share opinions and we gain new insight discussing things we didn't like, didn't understand or took a different way. And that's exactly what a forum is! A forum is a medium in which ideas and views or particualr issues, like characters, storylines and more are shared.

And when I speak of criticism, I mean constructive criticism that has a foundation that it stands on. If you don't like something, there must be a reason why. If you do like something, the same still applies. There are some times when you can't but as long as it isn't "Dis show STUpid" or an equivalent, it's all valid.

Just for clarification,

destructive criticism: criticism. tending to overthrow, disprove, or discredit; performed with the intention to harm someone, derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem

This si something that isn't helpful and even constructive criticism without explanation is not beneficial to a discussion. The writers may not hear it, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.