SECONDED. I'm of the mindset that the writers made some stupid ass decisions, so we go off and fix it in fanfic. That's what fanfic is for, ya'll.
Showrunners and writers make their decisions and we have no influence over that (and in the few cases where we have, it hasn't necessarily turned out well). The movie/tv show/comic/book is never going to perfectly align with our own personal headcanon and desires. It's just not. And if you can't accept that, they you really shouldn't be consuming someone else's product and just go off and create your own world where you have control over every single thing.
And FFS no one should be blaming the actors. They have almost as little control over the characters as we do. They are given a script. They may be able to ad lib a few lines and bring their own internal backstory to the character, but they're paid to say the lines that they're given. That's their job. Harassment of actors just makes all fans look bad and I haaaaaaaaaate that.
It's one thing to say to the writers, geez, I really wish this had happened or I wish this hadn't happened or this is how I would have done things differently, and another to threaten and harass them. This is never okay. I've read some really great debates about a particular character - a thing that didn't bother me in the moment but upon reflection, yeah, you're right. But that's exactly what you should do - let folks know, I didn't like this and this is why. Even contacting the writers about to say, if you'd done this a little differently it would have played the way you wanted it to, instead of pissing people off. Dialog, folks. Reasoned discussion.
Yeah, I'm a fandom old. I've lived through so many different schisms and wankage and general insanity. I've found that I'm much happier letting go of the idea that I can control canon and instead, find absolute joy in taking that canon and shaping it into whatever the hell I want. Well, okay, letting others do the shaping while I do the admiring because I'm not much of a creator. ;)
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Showrunners and writers make their decisions and we have no influence over that (and in the few cases where we have, it hasn't necessarily turned out well). The movie/tv show/comic/book is never going to perfectly align with our own personal headcanon and desires. It's just not. And if you can't accept that, they you really shouldn't be consuming someone else's product and just go off and create your own world where you have control over every single thing.
And FFS no one should be blaming the actors. They have almost as little control over the characters as we do. They are given a script. They may be able to ad lib a few lines and bring their own internal backstory to the character, but they're paid to say the lines that they're given. That's their job. Harassment of actors just makes all fans look bad and I haaaaaaaaaate that.
It's one thing to say to the writers, geez, I really wish this had happened or I wish this hadn't happened or this is how I would have done things differently, and another to threaten and harass them. This is never okay. I've read some really great debates about a particular character - a thing that didn't bother me in the moment but upon reflection, yeah, you're right. But that's exactly what you should do - let folks know, I didn't like this and this is why. Even contacting the writers about to say, if you'd done this a little differently it would have played the way you wanted it to, instead of pissing people off. Dialog, folks. Reasoned discussion.
Yeah, I'm a fandom old. I've lived through so many different schisms and wankage and general insanity. I've found that I'm much happier letting go of the idea that I can control canon and instead, find absolute joy in taking that canon and shaping it into whatever the hell I want. Well, okay, letting others do the shaping while I do the admiring because I'm not much of a creator. ;)