Hype Backlast - TV Tropes Wiki
Your friends have been bugging you to watch the latest TV show that everyone’s talking about. Every newspaper raves about its originality, well-deserved popularity, and effective mix of comedy and drama, on the front page of the Entertainment section. The critics are rushing to hail it as the re-definition of its genre. After the thirtieth or so “Just watch it already, geez!” and maybe a Hype Aversion stage, you finally give in, pop the DVD in your player, and lay back to enjoy the latest masterpiece…
…Only to end up watching a mediocre show with average plots and few laughs or an utterly confusing one with more than enough Shocking Swerves to boggle the mind; one that definitely isn’t the seminal classic everyone’s been touting it as. What on earth did everybody see in this retread and/or overrated piece of drivel?
Usually occurs when Quality By Popular Vote fails. Most often, the work isn’t bad at all by itself, and would have easily been accepted as a solid and enjoyable work by the same person under different circumstances. But to someone who was expecting nothing short of a flawless masterpiece to live up to all the hype, the disappointment can be bitter indeed.
The true backlash comes when the person who “doesn’t get it” becomes so irritated at others’ tendency to see that work as absolutely perfect that they put as much energy into downplaying or nitpicking it to show that it isn’t as wonderful as everybody seems to think it is. If it becomes particularly nasty enough, the two camps can degenerate into a Flame War.
This sums my “Shin Seiki Evangelion” impressions pretty accurately.
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