oh. my. god. this is soooo true! i'm new to dw fandom but picked up on this phenomenon immediately...cos we have the same thing in harry potter fandom - but, i think, on an even bigger/angrier scale. i can't tell you how many people hated book 6 with such a violent passion but stuck around through book 7 just to spend time criticizing what it had 'become' and bashing jkr as some sort of hack.

i really hope these attitudes don't drive me from dw the way they did from hp!