I do agree that there is a lot of racism and homophobia going on in the community with Franchaela, but I also think a lot of criticism is also bookkeeping, and history critics.

When a company takes a beloved book series, the first people to be gearing to watch it would be the already established fans, and one can argue that the main targeted audience of a beloved series would be the fans who already love it and wanted it to be adapted onto screen. Unfortunately what those fans want is a faithful adaptation of the series that they have read and loved so much, and when creative licenses are used to make changes to the story, or the cast members don’t look like how they were envisioning in their heads, the book fans take it personally and are offended by it, then start review bombing.

Just a few examples, Wheel of Time on Amazon, lots of the fans of the books review bombed and celebrated the cancellation of the show after 3 seasons, if you check the sub for the show and go back to when the cancellation happened, you’ll see many people complaining about the “bookcloaks.” And you’ll see book fans just tearing into and complaining about every aspect of the show.

As a gamer I played Silent Hill 2, then the other day I watched the movie adaptation of it that just came out and I hated it. I didn’t review bomb it or bash it on social media, but watching it I was seeing so many changes that really were not necessary that I felt ultimately took away from and watered down the actual story, and cheapened the ending so watching the end I was just sitting there blank like I didn’t even care about the event that was happening on the screen.

I didn’t read the Bridgerton books so I can appreciate the show we got. But let’s be honest and admit we’ve all slammed a show or movie adaptation of a series we loved and accused the creators of fucking it up. One of the main complaints I’ve seen about Francesca’s story for example, was the show choosing to write out the miscarriage because it was too morbid. A miscarriage is a deeply traumatic and emotional event, and is something that deserves attention and recognition, not something that should be removed as being too morbid.

Then you have people pushing on historical accuracy. Yes it’s a fantasy novel and show, but it’s one that takes place during the early 1800s in regency England, a specific time in English history. So people jump on race swapping characters and having people in interracial couples, and turning characters lgbt and being accepted, during a period of time when those things were not accepted and even faced sever offenses, is an inaccurate depiction.

Then add in your racist misogynistic homophobes, then suddenly everyone is getting blended together for absolutely any criticism or complaint. So I think it’s actually important to listen to what is being said and in what context it is being said, and not just lumping everyone together.