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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9411772" data-attributes="member: 18">I think this is true - it's better to stick with something you actually like than to try and force yourself to like something you don't.No finer example of this than the modern Star Wars fandom, especially some Gen Xers. Like, for me, Star Wars has been up and down, but it's been up and down - there's always been stuff I've liked and stuff I haven't. Whereas for a significant proportion of Gen X SW fans, it seems like really they only actually liked maybe the OT, some of the old EU, maybe Clone Wars (but not really the PT)/Rebels (maybe!), maybe TFA and/or Rogue One, maybe Andor or some of Mando, but not really enjoying or even hating most of it, yet they keep forcing themselves to watch more and more and more of it, hating (it seems) every moment. I get that maybe there is just enough annoying/awful about the modern stuff that they can't overlook it despite attempting to "choose joy" (I mean, a lot of TROS was on that level for me, or Boba Fett), but at a certain point, maybe just go "Let's stick with what I know I like!"?Likewise with Trek, I realized pretty early on that just because I didn't like VOY, it didn't somehow make DS9 worse, and also, I could just not watch or think about VOY!I think there's a real problem in "fandom" where people like some shows from an IP feel they need to consume like, all of an IP's "content" (ugh), or they're "not a real fan" or something. When in fact you're so much better off just enjoying the bits you enjoy! I didn't watch Discovery Season 5 and nobody can make me! Hahaha! I can re-watch DS9 whenever I want! (um, at least currently - it sucks when you can't get a show or book or record or whatever you like because it's OOP and/or otherwise inaccessible).</blockquote>

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