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You know what you'll never find me doing? Telling fans how to enjoy a show. Telling fans they "need" to like every aspect in a show. Because, fuck that. I am allowed to enjoy whatever parts of s show I want to and not enjoy others.
Yes that article makes me mad, largely because it represents in the worst in fandom gatekeeping. "I am allowed to be mad at things in the story I don't like, but you're not because you are not as good a fan as me."
As a shipper I have been dealing with this since The X-Files fandom, when noromos would say shippers were fake fans who should go watch Melrose Place. Shippers are fans, and frankly shippers keep shows running after "better" fans have left.
Carylers are invested in the story and so get emotional when they feel let down. DO NOT tell me fans did not react exactly the same way when Carl died, when Glenn died, when Rick left. I was here. I saw it. But somehow that's acceptable?
Were this the final season and that's that,there may be some justification to the"shut up and accept it" brigade, because the show is over. But the point is, a spin off for these 2 characters is coming. They need and expect the carylers as the core audience.
If they are driving carylers away, it's appropriate feedback to let them know. It's also massively presumptuous of this article to think Carylers are the only ones upset by this particular story - because from what I have so far, that's far from the case.
