Welcome to the Age of Fan-Entitlement

Tom Fisher
Nov 5 · 6 min read
“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.” — Jeor Mormont

When the final season of Game of Thrones aired on our screens earlier this year, over a million people signed a petition asking for the season to be ‘rewritten using competent writers’. Fans were disappointed, upset and angry about all sorts of aspects of the show’s denouement and so they took to the Internet to voice their opinions. They were angry because they felt as though they deserved better — that they were entitled

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