Actually, Anon, I don’t recall criticizing the finale.
I recall criticizing the actions of a character in the finale and during the rest of s4. I recall criticizing the way the fandom has reacted to the actions of that character, but I do not ever recall saying that I considered the finale bad in any way. It’s brilliant, frankly – anything that makes me react the way I did and has me still talking about it seven months later has to be something pretty special. It’s complex, it’s heartbreaking, it’s wonderful in the fact that we all got something we never expected to get – a semi-happy ending for a character that quite frankly I expected to be mourning by the end of the series. I loved the finale, but I did not love the fact that while I saw a man get the love of his life back but at a truly horrifying, to me unacceptable cost and be betrayed by someone he trusted, other people seem to have seen that character being forced into slavery as an act of love. I did not love the fact that while I watched a woman’s lover turn on her and treat her very, very poorly – even arguably abusively – other parts of the fandom seem to have disregarded her worth and decisions in much the same way to say that her lover did the right thing in treating her like her needs mattered less than his.
Do you see the difference? I can love a thing but not love the actions of a specific character or the way the fandom reacts to them.
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