Monsters of the Week

DNF @ 8%I hereby solemnly swear that I will never try to read another essay compilation for something I like, but especially not something I love. These essays may not be as arrogant or problematic as the ones about Supernatural and The Mortal Instruments in [b:In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural 3840034 In the Hunt Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural Leah Wilson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347589629l/3840034.SX50.jpg 3884866] and [b:Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader 13583766 Shadowhunters and Downworlders A Mortal Instruments Reader Cassandra Clare https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1341879537l/13583766.SY75.jpg 19170521], respectively, but they are unappealing in perhaps a worse way. Whereas those were too busy ass-kissing abusive characters and mocking other media, these essays are too busy trying to invent reasons to drag modern politics and morals into a show from the 1990s and tear it apart piece-by-piece.Yes, the book is clear that these are critical essays, but I expected that to mean something more along the lines of reviews and not... whatever this hot mess is. Actually referring to an episode as “the first genuinely bad episode” is not critical, it's just being overly opinionated. And doing so in a book which claims to have been written with new viewers in mind...? Are you trying to scare them away?I was already annoyed, but I just can't make it any further now that race has been unnecessarily dragged into it (protip: white men aren't the only ones who can be overprotective of women in their lives) and things which aren't sexist - in a show with plenty of prime examples which that argument could have been saved for - are being criticized with wild assumptions about the authorial intent... Nah, I can't do it. I would just be sitting here, seething at something I love being torn to shreds by people I am frankly not at all convinced actually even like the show.Also how dare they act like the best part of Ghost In the Shell is the worst part.