Fanrage

I don't know if people understand how much the fandom of something or someone can come to feel valued and respected by the idea that whatever it is exists for them and them specifically. Telling fans to chill out or calm down in the face of changes to the object of their feelings is to tell them that the needs the fandom fulfills are, in fact, trivial.

And, to be sure, to many people, they are. For me, whether or not a character in a movie adaptation is faithful to some original portrayal of them is completely unimportant. But that can also be said for a lot of things that people find important... Importance is, after all, a subjective determination.

So I think that discounting people's emotional attachments may be something done too often in haste.