Ow, I'm sorry it backlashed on you like that! The NiF hype actually worked well for me, because the way it was pitched I went in expecting Prestige TV which I sometimes like but sometimes really don't, but then it had so many wildly OTT fannish things with h/c and slashiness and all that I ended up enjoying it more than I really had expected to. (Which I think is why many of us do hype it so much, because it can be fun to have a show that you can rec to people and random non-fans as Quality, but at the same time brings the fannish feels...)
I've definitely had things I did not enjoy because of hype backlash (Umbrella Academy I bounced off hard) but it especially sucks when you actually were enjoying something, but in a way that clashed with how others fanned on it. You need to find a circle of "people who like NiF well enough but also happily fast-forwarded or laughed through a lot of the nonsense"!
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Date: 2021-01-16 11:18 pm (UTC)I've definitely had things I did not enjoy because of hype backlash (Umbrella Academy I bounced off hard) but it especially sucks when you actually were enjoying something, but in a way that clashed with how others fanned on it. You need to find a circle of "people who like NiF well enough but also happily fast-forwarded or laughed through a lot of the nonsense"!