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Being completely aboveboard about my feelings regarding the show and my complete lack of motivation to change anyone else's feelings about it is intellectually dishonest and hypocritical

I meant ingratiating to our peanut gallery, not specifically to me.

I don't think you were exclusively appealing to anyone maliciously, but I think you were quickly trying to reach the middle ground of "I respect your opinion and I'm just this humble dude respecting everyone even if they're being ridiculous". That part, specifically, is what I'm referring/referred to. To me, that's potshotting and trying to remain noncommittal. I'm only saying hypocrite about this, it has nothing to do with the show.

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Like, even after a Spurs win, I can probably be heard grousing about our shitty defense, or a particular player's lack of progression, etc. She doesn't have to turn her brain off or something to enjoy it in spite of what I deem glaring holes in the team's performance, it just doesn't affect her enjoyment of the event.

The problem is that the analogy falls flat, and that...you're proving my point. You're not ridiculous for enjoying Basketball at a more in-depth level.

The bigger problem is that this isn't like a bad defense, possession or coaching. This is like the game is rigged. People can enjoy the spectacle of a rigged game, but if you're paying attention there is fundamentally no way to overlook it and enjoy the game.

The more attention someone puts to the show, the more likely they were to not enjoy the final season. It's objective fact. I didn't mean an Avengers' style watcher as an insult and I explained to teamjackson that it had nothing to do with being someone who is worse for liking it; I meant that you weren't paying attention to things like Arya saying she knows a killer when she sees one while simultaneously standing on the corpses and rubble of people the Queen just killed.

You either look at that and roll your eyes, or you don't even notice because you're there for a different reason.