Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-4637931-20180520200954/@comment-31231929-20180520213716

Sometimes, fans focus so much on the negative aspects (to them personally or otherwise) of a show they watch that it causes them to not like the show anymore so they end up hate-watching (watching for the purpose of finding things to complain about) . Other fans only enjoy a few aspects of the show and not any of the others. So it's perfectly reasonable that they say they only watch because of this character or this ship or whatever it is. Some of them choose to focus on the parts they don't like for whatever reason, but not all do. Fans tend to watch through "goggles" so they see what they want to see. Which causes them to get upset when things don't go their way so they go to twitter or tumblr or wherever to criticize/bash/generally complain. Sometimes criticim is warranted, but I hate it when there is an overabundance of it. The worst thing in my opinion is saying you're a fan of a ship, but you prefer one character over another and when the character you don't like as much does anything that might be the tiniest bit detrimental to the other person or their relationship if they're in one, they rake said character over the coals. I saw a post on tumblr once that had multiple people absolutely bashing Emma for trying to protect Killian (their favorite) from the knowledge of her death visions/finding the ring and being so overcome with joy she misread the situation because they've known each other for 5 seasons and Emma should know better, etc. etc. But Emma's a complex character with flaws. She's allowed to make mistakes sometimes. It isn't ooc or a reverse of character development. The same goes for any character. They're not perfect and just because they're development isn't always perfect doesn't mean it's bad. Of course if a character is constantly backsliding, then there is reverse development. But that usually means the character is meant to go in a negative direction. The best example of this is Rumple who had good development in Season 3, but constantly backslid until the end of Season 6. But that was because he was the main villain of the show. Then in Season 7, he developed postively the whole way through. So I guess that it's best to ignore those who complain and criticize and focus on those who stay positive.