Talk:The Fourth Wall/@comment-24152851-20151020230618/@comment-26168272-20151024044228

I don't think making all these so-called "anti-hater episodes" is an any way a good route in addressing their critics. For one thing, it makes the writers look extremely unprofessional, they are basically using valuable time, money, and resources to carry out a personal argument and using their characters as mouth pieces for their own frustrations. This is not the behavior that experienced professionals in the animation field should be exhibiting; one episode of this nature would have been understandable and tasteful, but the fact that they keep on making "call out episodes" like this to me demonstrates a profound lack of maturity, as well as a lack of healthy self-seperation from the artistic piece--something that all good entertainers are expected to master.

Perhaps the writers and their supporters think they're "sticking up for themselves," but really all they're doing is unnecessarily poking the hornet's nest. Critics of the show would inevitably exhaust their frustrations, accept TTG's reality, and move on, but the writers are choosing to re-open wounds and give the critics new things to be angry about. And frankly, they have every right to be angry. You don't just get to repeatedly publicly slam a sizable group of people and then wonder, "Why don't they just let us have our show and stop saying bad things about us?!" TTG is not South Park or Family Guy, they are, as they love to repeat, a children's show, and have no business trying to play the game of "test how far we can push the audience's limits." If TTG does get canceled, it won't be because of it's unpopularity with original fans, it'll be because it's writers were so wrapped-up in using the show as a sockpuppet for their personal vendettas that the Suits will finally get sick of the ever-increasing bad publicity and pull the plug entirely so they can give the project to a team that knows how to properly conduct themselves in audience relations.

If anything, TTG fans should be more mad about this than the critics. I'm sure they would love nothing more than to just sit back and forget about all the hate and actually enjoy their show, but the show itself keeps reminding them of all the grief they have go through as fans of it. It's not fair to anyone involved. The best route for TTG to go if it's really serious about "being itself" and "ignoring the haters" is to stop trying to throw itself in the ring and accept that it's ill-gotten reputation among old fans is here to stay.