Some people hate anything that isn't "the latest".
So they hate the Toby MacGuire Spider-Man just because Andrew Garfield is the one in the theaters this week. So they hate Chris Reeves Superman just because Zack Snyder's Man of Steel is the one in the theaters recently. So they hate seventy years of DC continuity just because New 52 is the one that's in the comic book rack this week. So they hate every TV iteration of Star Trek just because the reboot is the one that's in the theaters this year. So they hate the girlfriend they couldn't stop talking about every single day of last month because they're dating someone else this month.
And when Spider-Man is inevitably rebooted again, they will turn on Andrew Garfield as remorselessly as they turned on Toby MacGuire. When a new Superman appears, they will turn on Snyder's vision as snidely as they turned on Chris Reeves' performance. When DC reboots in ten years, because DC pretty much reboots every ten years, they will have as little fidelity and loyalty to New 52 as they had to the pre-New 52 DC. When there's a different Enterprise crew, they will mock Chris Pine and company as much as they now mock William Shatner's era. And, of course, when they break up next month with the girl they had been dating this month, the one they can't stop praising, they will hate her without a second thought.
We live now in the age when everything is disposable and no one understands what loyalty, history, or context mean any more. Ten years of listening to what people say and reading what they post online has taught me this, and reading fans of the odious New 52 defend it as the one and only DC worth reading made certain I would never forget that lesson.
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