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[avrelia]

Sometimes I wonder whether I love shows that I started to watch when they were over (or mostly over) more (Buffy and Avatar the last airbender), is that I avoided all of broken expectations and most of the fandom drama?

I mean, I only watched season 7 of BtVS as it aired, and I loved it. Spike already got his sole, so the question whether he needed one was not I cared about. There was a lot of people who started watching in season one and involved in fandom, and had their expectations subverted several times over, and they often ended hating all the later seasons and Buffy herself. Would I hate them if I started from the beginning?

I don't know. I watched several shows from the beginning and loved them, and then either grew bored (OUaT after season 4), or unhappy with the direction the show took (Fringe, after season 4, Sleepy Hollow mid season 2), and I saw that the creators wanted to tell a story I have no interest in following and I dropped the shows and the fandom, but I was never seriously involved.

Avatar TLA is crazy in this regard. There still so much unhappiness and conspiracy theories about creator being evil and ruining all the good ideas other writers had, and all the complains how everything is badly written and nothing makes sense... I and I cannot understand - what's keeping you here if it makes you so unhappy? But no, Zuko/Katara still is the most popular ship and people still are writing diatribes how it should have been canon... It's magic.

And what's also magical, that I started in the fandom, just being happy about all story and the characters and found all canon relationships very cool and fresh and brave.

And after reading a lot of complains, I grew bitter and annoyed. I still like the canon relationships, but with much more passion, :)))

But seriously, how do people enjoy something that makes them so unhappy?