I'm still bitter that Gamble was so deplored by huge swathes of the fandom just for trying to do something different with the show and breathe new life into it, which it desperately needed and does again now more so than ever - alas, the angelic rot had already set in at that point and those that latched onto it will apparently not settle for anything else, to hell with what that does to the integrity of the show.
I'd like to say 'yes, stop watching, preserve the love you once had', but it hasn't worked like that for me, I stopped watching and now still can't even look at the early seasons because all that does is remind me of how far the show fell. :( So I totally understand your resentment because it's a large part of what drove me away and keeps me away - I guess this is how you came to feel about AtS (and I've still never managed to rewatch S5 of that myself, despite owning the DVD for so many years).
But I'm dissatisfied with a lot of things at the moment, which might also contribute.
I do want to watch the early seasons again someday, when I can get past my upset over how far the show drifted from that original vision. If I can focus on the episodes and not let myself think about the turgid mess it descended into in later years... Not yet, though.
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I'm still bitter that Gamble was so deplored by huge swathes of the fandom just for trying to do something different with the show and breathe new life into it, which it desperately needed and does again now more so than ever - alas, the angelic rot had already set in at that point and those that latched onto it will apparently not settle for anything else, to hell with what that does to the integrity of the show.
I'd like to say 'yes, stop watching, preserve the love you once had', but it hasn't worked like that for me, I stopped watching and now still can't even look at the early seasons because all that does is remind me of how far the show fell. :( So I totally understand your resentment because it's a large part of what drove me away and keeps me away - I guess this is how you came to feel about AtS (and I've still never managed to rewatch S5 of that myself, despite owning the DVD for so many years).
But I'm dissatisfied with a lot of things at the moment, which might also contribute.
I do want to watch the early seasons again someday, when I can get past my upset over how far the show drifted from that original vision. If I can focus on the episodes and not let myself think about the turgid mess it descended into in later years... Not yet, though.