the professional critics
The problem is that professional critics fan pander the show, they are not critic towards it , they praise and about the fans, are seen as haters that dont like a show bc their ships didnt make it, in fact there is a media that actually said that fans were messing with polls about one episode i think was 510, where teh episode got a F note from fans and the media came to say that teh episode was so good that haters were using informatic ways to mess with the poll. That is one of OUAT problems, the Professional critics dont dare critic the show, dont know if is afraid of going against Disney, or afraid of a portion of fans that are bullies and toxic, in the end that is OUAT thing, fans critics are called haters bc of ships, media cater to ouat and ratings are not that bad( even with the huge drop), bc they dont have competition on that day and hour, so yeah, for all means ouat is a hit.
As for critics, There are some who gives negative criticism when it’s due such as Lily from tv.com, Jenn from Bustle, Meredith from IO9, the podcast in here and Shark Jumping podcast. Lindsay Ellis aka Nostalgia chick said she thinks the show is bad as well. The only biased critics I see are the ones who wants to be on A&E’s good side so they would give them scoops about the show and ones who don’t have any knowledge about film or television so they say that anything that is popular is good, which we know it’s not the case (i.e: Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey).
As for Fans, it really depends where: from what I understand, in Facebook they delete any comment that criticize the show, G+ mostly has fan made art, twitter mostly has the most extreme fans (both hate and love) but they mostly cares about ships and not actually the story, which is a shame cause that is what Adam and co see the most so I guess that is why the show became very ships driven. Tumbler has a bit of twitter and G+ feeling (hate, love and images). Wiki are mostly children that think the show can do no wrong, but sometimes there people that call the show for what it is and they get the usual “why do you even watch the show” comments. IMO, here are the most objective fans of the show.
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