hatewatching or hatereading isn't specific enough

[cimorene]

Sometimes you know you're going to hate all of it, but you have to experience it anyway because some bizarre sense of internal fairness tells you that it's not technically fair to decide (even privately) that you hate it without giving it a chance, but once you check you'll be free to judge it with a clear conscience.

The reaction videos I've seen for Cats make this familiar process look a lot more fun than it usually feels to me, though. I laughed all the way through Folding Ideas's.

Comments

[cimorene]

Oh, ugh. Yeah, it's really irritating when you have such strong opinions about your canon that you can't really even enjoy the new canon in spite of tons of people shouting about it. That feels like it happens way more often than it should to me...

[yvannairie]

It's... people can be so protective of their fandoms, and not realise how that can make the thing less appealing. If someone repeatedly tries to override my stated preferences in order to "give me a good experience", even if I end up enjoying the thing, it will always be tainted by having been pressganged into "enjoying myself".

IDK. Fandom's marbles seem to have gotten particularly scattered lately.