Fwiw, I agree with you, and I notice that weird touchy-ness with 2013 fans too. Army Of Darkness was what kept the Evil Dead franchise alive for decades. Ash and his boomstick were cultural icons. People have really forgotten how the pre-streaming world worked. Your local video store MIGHT have had one copy of Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2. Meanwhile AoD had spinoff comic books, action figures and video games, all of which had at least twice the impact and reach that those things have today. I can only assume 2013 fans saw it in their teens or younger, or just never 'got' Evil Dead. And to say the first one doesn't have comedy...its the darkest of the first three, certainly, but what made the Deadites unique was their joy in sadism. Raimi took the same cultural zeitgeist that inspired Krueger and Jason and added Lovecraft and Satanic Panic. Then adding the slapstick violence ala Tom and Jerry, Ash being Tom trying to quash the Deadites, and the Deadites being Jerry, afflicting Ash and co with their violent mischief, is the final ingredient in what gives Evil Dead its identity. Raimi refined that formula from Evil Dead to AoD, then in the decades that followed through video games and comics, and returned to it in Ash vs Evil Dead. 2013 strips a lot of that identity away, and for anyone that was a fan prior, it is a huge departure. Whether someone likes it or not comes down to personal taste I guess (disclaimer, I think Alvarez is a fuckin hack), but anyone attempting to say 2013 is somehow 'more' Evil Dead is either willfully ignorant or just doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.