Stumbled over a really interesting thread inviting people to share their own unpopular opinions about the show Gargoyles. I'm not in the fandom, even though it is something I like checking out fic and fan art for.
Though there are one or two things mentioned there that I either don't really care about or disagree with, the vast majority of things people are saying is stuff I've thought myself for a long time. For one, the fandom's fixation with strictly sticking to the ideas Greg Weisman lays out on his Station 8 site, such as the Timedancer stuff. People in general have different ideas on exactly what constitutes canon versus non-canon, myself included. Since the concepts Weisman discusses were never actually featured in the show, I personally do not really consider them canon. I think the best Gargoyles fanfics I've read were the ones that just did their own thing instead of clinging to his ideas, some of which... *sigh* aren't really the greatest. I also just enjoy seeing fan creativity in action, but this rigid "make everything fit into what Greg said" mentality more often then not clamps down on fan theories and other fun stuff.
Several people in that thread also bring up how fandom and even canon seems to gloss over the fact that Xanatos did a lot of
super-messed up stuff in the series, like experimenting on the poor and minorities, and never paid for it.
But I wasn't too shocked to discover yet another fandom where certain opinions and thoughts get held up as The Law, and anybody who doesn't want to tow the party line gets ostracized or worse. Sad.
