[pjc50]

Some of the fandoms are toxic, although that's more an internet/social media issue and those involved tend to be teenagers more than "working class".

> Then game of thrones proved it was possible to make an adaptation that was both faithful and good cinema

.. up to the critical point where they couldn't be faithful because GRRM hadn't written the ending, so they wrote one which everyone got mad about.

[triceratops]

It wasn't the ending per se that everyone got mad about. It was how the ending was written. Silicon Valley has showed us that execution matters as much or more than ideas.