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Look, as someone violently allergic to Reylo1, I get being frustrated when the thing you don't like is popular. But if the worst you have to say about a TV show is that it's "boring slop" then like... okay? Hooray for your superior intellect? Go watch the shows you do like. Not everyone shares your highly specific and rigid standards for Fine Art, and enjoying something for reasons other than its groundbreaking watertight plot and meticulous verisimilitude does not make someone "shallow".2 For God's sake. Sometimes I'm not sure if I hate anti-intellectuals or pseudo-intellectuals the most. 1 My objection to Reylo is not that it was boring slop, but that it was deeply regressive boring slop. 2 yes, this is yet another post about "Pursuit of Jade".