User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 090514/@comment-107.220.16.57-20140907205336

People don't really "outgrow" truely quality entertainment. A good story is a good story and will attract viewers regardless of the viewers ages in relation to the characters. I started watching Teen Wolf when I was 32 and I'm now 34.

I'm not going to lie:  I started watching because of Sterek. I never believed it would become canon, but I found S1 and S2 to be fun and campy - definitely not perfect - but certainly entertaining enough. And I got involved in the fandom and became emotionally involved in the characters (all of them, not just Sterek).

In case you are new to fandoms, fandoms run on emotional involvement. Without emotional involvement fandoms don't exist. The problem with emotions, however, it that they can turn sour. After nearly 15 years of actively participating in many fandoms, I am witnessing something I never thought I would see:  a show and its fans turning on each other. It's fascinating really, and I can't blame the fans for it. I have never seen a show with such inept PR and such a blatant contempt for its fandom. And the dip in quality (such as it was ever quality...) is staggering. (I mean really!  Who was the Benefactor?  Where did the Deadpool list come from?  I still don't know.  That was so damn confusing, and not even worth trying to figure out, because apparently the very next episode all is forgotten.  Is anyone even going to jail for that shit?!?!?!  Not Peter.  He's on his way to Mexico.  And where is Meredith?  F@#K!)

At any rate, my point is that these emotions that drove the show to relative popularity are the same emotions that turned to hatred and anger once TPTB decided that certain elements of the fandom were persona non grata and simultaneously stopped giving a shit about the quality of their own product. Positive emotions don't just dissipate and disappear overnight, they turn hella sour first. That's perfectly natural. And it's also natural that fans will take to the internet to rant their anger much like they did to gush and squee their love. If the gushing and squeeing isn't indicative of a mental health problem, then neither is the anger.

Don't worry. In due course, the anger will turn to apathy and disinterest, and people will move on - they always do. But here's the bottomline:  we are ALL losers on the internet who spend way too much time obsessing over a low-quality show about teenage werewolves. We all live in this glass house and need to put down our rocks of judgement about the mental and emotional help others might need, unless we are willing to acknowledge our own need for the same help.

/rant over/