![]() This can often have the effect of making the person suddenly hate the work that he or she previously had no strong antipathy towards.Ĭommon with literature that school assignments force you to read and analyze if you decide that you don't like it, you can't just put the book down and pick up another one because you must read it from beginning to end, adding to the difficulty in reading the novel. Often, this results when a person initially only had a mild dislike, or even just a passive disinterest, in a particular work - until over-enthusiastic fans of the work start harping on and/or berating the person for not enjoying the work as much as they do. Over-enthusiastic fans can also provoke this reaction, of course a fan of something is always going to be particularly committed and convinced of its quality, but they can let their enthusiasm get out of hand. Almost guaranteed to occur if fans claim the work is a Trope Codifier, and/or that it's the inspiration of everything, including your beloved obscure work that was released years before it but is not as popular. If the people who are praising the work are also spoiling it in their praise, this becomes very likely. In some cases, the revolutionary unique show you're watching was only revolutionary when it was made. It's common for people coming to something that has been praised to the moon for its iconoclastic bravery or intellectual complexity to find that what they are watching is neither as revolutionary or deep as they've been led to believe. This can also show up when, for the person disappointed by the work, something is heavily over-analyzed or praised as being more rebellious, challenging or intellectually "deep" than it is. Critics have a loud voice in influencing people about what they think is worth seeing, but it's not uncommon for them and the public to have different tastes, expectations, and demands. This is often the root of the gulf that can exist between the critical praise a show receives and the public reaction to it. ![]() Or the inverse can happen a work that seems incredibly inventive and original to a relatively young target audience may fall flat when seen by an older viewer who has seen past works that it liberally borrows from. ![]() This is even more ironic if the disappointment stems from the viewer having seen the work's elements done to death already, when the work itself had originated those clichés. To someone who was expecting nothing short of a flawless masterpiece, the disappointment of anything less can be bitter indeed. But few things can live up to being praised as perfect works of pure genius by lots of people for long. Most often, the work isn't bad in itself, and would easily have been accepted as a solid and enjoyable work by the same person under different circumstances. ![]() This usually occurs when Quality by Popular Vote fails. Looks like you've just suffered Hype Backlash. Except you come away with a very different opinion than your friends to you, it's at best a mediocre show with average plots and few laughs or an utterly confusing one with more than enough twists to boggle the mind, a show that definitely isn't the seminal classic everyone's touting it as. After the thirtieth or so "Just watch it already, geez!" and maybe a Hype Aversion stage, you finally give in you rent the show's first season on DVD, pop it in your player, and lay back to enjoy the latest masterpiece. Critics are rushing to hail it as the re-definition of its genre. Every newspaper raves about its originality, well-deserved popularity, and effective mix of comedy and drama, on the front page of the Entertainment section. ![]() Your friends have been bugging you to watch the latest TV show that everyone's talking about. ![]()
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