The other day I was driving home and listening to sports radio and I guess they had been talking about a trade a team didn't make and the fans were angry. One of the hosts said that the angry fans reminded him of nerds who get angry and become toxic because their fan theories didn't come true. I couldn't have rolled my eyes any harder.
Just brought back memories of all the moronic critics when The Last Jedi came out. It wasn't enough to simply say they enjoyed the movie, they had to crap on everyone who didn't and Disney being Disney went along with it. I remember hearing the "you're just mad because your fan theories did come true" or "You just wanted to see a heroic Luke" I remember asking someone who said those exact things why it was a bad thing to want to see a heroic Luke. They didn't respond.
This also popped up in Game of Thrones with Arya killing the Night King and people getting called sexist for saying that it should've been Jon.
I guess in hindsight this exposed all the media shills for what they were. Anyone who was actually interested in the IP would know that fan theories have been around in nerdom since the beginning. Anyone who actually cared about the IPs would know this, but this is what happens when a site/channel that was made to cater to fans is bought out by a corporation and gets re-staffed with a bunch of hacks. Sci-Fi Channel and the Star Wars websites I would frequent in the 90s and early 00s come to mind.
Arya killing the Night King was stupid because she'd had absolutely no interaction with him or any White Walkers before it happened. You can't just have a good guy kill a bad guy when they've never met and have it be satisfying when you have Jon Snow right there.
Well since they were close I figured if they were intent on having Ayra involved then they could’ve fought together but their excuse for not letting Jon kill or even fight the Night king was idiotic. They actually said that’s what everyone expects. Well yes because Jon has been dealing with the white walkers since the beginning. It’s hard to come up with any reason other than girl power for it.
In the first seasons Renly was killed by a shadow assassin birthed by Melisandre. His army collapsed and the remnants were subsequently absorbed by his brother. There are other examples of this in GOT lore.
The theory was sound: kill the leader, and the army dissolves.This was especially true in the case of the Night King. But in this case it came across as weak and pathetic, because they sullied the show with feminism-on-stilts prior to her arrival at Winterfell. Also, her skills were no match for an army of undead. They were setting her up as the killer-to-be as a supernatural assassin, but her powers didn't allow for her to infiltrate the Night King's army.
it's a sign of bad storytelling when you try to subvert expectations just for the sake of doing it, you have to be a much better writer than the guys behind the Game of Thrones show to pull it off.