Thinking about it again this morning, the thing is I think he genuinely doesn't get the difference between stating an opinion civilly and throwing around words like "indefensible." The world indefensible doesn't mean, "I don't know what a good defense of this ep as #3 would be." It means, "There exists no good defense." If you say, "That ep sucked" we can all kind of nod along and understand the implicit 'IMHO'. But he's saying, "It is IMPOSSIBLE that that ep is good enough to be on this list," and then doubling back and wondering why people are upset, because it's *just his opinion, right*?
The other thing I just realized about the early-season-is-obviously-better crowd: what exactly is the point? Like, the early!season people are the ones with the power and seemingly a majority. I sometimes (though I am hopefully not too bad about it) get strident when talking about, say, Lost, but that's because I feel that the critical consensus is severely overrating it and so I see my position as underrepresented; there's something much more frustrating about the late!season!lovers!are!wrong!crowd making such a big point about it, because THEY ALREADY HAVE THE APPARENT (though possibly not actual) MAJORITY, WHAT MORE DO THEY WANT?
Ahem.
Usual disclaimer: Note that I love the early seasons too and early season lovers are awesome, and also some late season lovers are jerks. Plus my conspiracy theories about the power dynamics between early- and late-season lovers might not be accurate.
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The other thing I just realized about the early-season-is-obviously-better crowd: what exactly is the point? Like, the early!season people are the ones with the power and seemingly a majority. I sometimes (though I am hopefully not too bad about it) get strident when talking about, say, Lost, but that's because I feel that the critical consensus is severely overrating it and so I see my position as underrepresented; there's something much more frustrating about the late!season!lovers!are!wrong!crowd making such a big point about it, because THEY ALREADY HAVE THE APPARENT (though possibly not actual) MAJORITY, WHAT MORE DO THEY WANT?
Ahem.
Usual disclaimer: Note that I love the early seasons too and early season lovers are awesome, and also some late season lovers are jerks. Plus my conspiracy theories about the power dynamics between early- and late-season lovers might not be accurate.