Lynxara
Nice post!!
I just don't see why people are continuing with something they obviously find unpleasant when they have a choice about it.
Just check out the thread! If you publicly say you're dropping something*, you will get told to watch more of it. When it comes to forums, people will always tell you that until you've seen every episode, you should go watch the whole show because you might like it eventually. (If you've seen every episode and still hate it, well, clearly you're a troll or stupid.)
It's an attitude that seems geared to generate maximum unhappiness for all involved. The tendency of fandom is to want to make everyone like everything the fandom is about, which we can achieve to a point. You can't make everyone see the show the same way, though, and that's fine.
Catering to lots of different people is why I think it's awesome that Toei just completely changes up Rider every year. So if you didn't like last year's show there's always next year. And if you don't like this year... well, wait long enough and Toei will eventually make something else you like. Even if you had to wait about ten years like I did!
* Now a fair response here is "Why bother saying you're dropping it if you're not trolling the fans who didn't?" Good response. In my case, it's so I'm not solicited for an opinion about OOO in other forum-related places like other threads, IM, podcast, etc. I dislike having to tell someone to their face that I think their baby is ugly, more or less.
