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.

Well, he's not entirely wrong. Shippers go absolutely ballistic when the ships they theorized and argued about online for years and wrote endless fanfics for don't pan out. One only needs to look at the abuse Adam Driver got to see what I mean, not only for his character not hooking up with Rey, but for him not hooking up with Daisy Ridley in real life, despite the fact that he was married and had a child underway at the time. But since they're always a combination of autistic, female, lefty, alphabet, and self-proclaimed alphabet ally, they're just conveniently ignored.

Let's also ignore the fact that there were no "fan theories" concerning the Star Wars heroes' fates; there was an entire expanded universe that said all there was to say about them that people generally really liked. Then Disney omitted all that and replaced it with a shoddy film trilogy that turned Luke, Leia, Han, and everyone else into losers whose accomplishments amounted to jack-all. Of course people are going to get mad when you take away something good and substitute it with something godawful.

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.

One point of fairness I'll give to this is that it's the only important thing Arya actually does in the entirety of the series. Her story is otherwise completely isolated from everyone else's and never has an effect on the larger world until that point. However, that doesn't justify her killing the Night King; it just goes to show how the showrunners never had a clue what the point behind her character was, and possibly by extension, neither does Martin.

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.

Well, he's not entirely wrong. Shippers go absolutely ballistic when the ships they theorized and argued about online for years and wrote endless fanfics for don't pan out. One only needs to look at the abuse Adam Driver got, not only for his character not hooking up with Rey, but for him not hooking up with Daisy Ridley in real life, despite the fact that he was married and had a child underway at the time. But since they're always a combination of autistic, female, lefty, alphabet, and self-proclaimed alphabet ally, they're just conveniently ignored.

Let's also ignore the fact that there were no "fan theories" concerning the Star Wars heroes' fates; there was an entire expanded universe that said all there was to say about them that people generally really liked. Then Disney omitted all that and replaced it with a shoddy film trilogy that turned Luke, Leia, Han, and everyone else into losers whose accomplishments amounted to jack-all. Of course people are going to get mad when you take away something good and substitute it with something godawful.

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.

One point of fairness I'll give to this is that it's the only important thing Arya actually does in the entirety of the series. Her story is otherwise completely isolated from everyone else's and never has an effect on the larger world until that point. However, that doesn't justify her killing the Night King; it just goes to show how the showrunners never had a clue what the point behind her character was, and possibly by extension, neither does Martin.