Thread:TRRFan6/@comment-26986696-20190531212225/@comment-5928665-20191120164956

If they mistreated their fans, it's a two-way street. Some of the fans have been pretty terrible to them in the past. Christian Potenza received DEATH THREATS because of the backlash over Mike in TDAS. It's a credit to him that he still wanted anything to do with this franchise after that. I wouldn't have blamed him at all if he had walked away.

I do think they care about their fans. They just didn't consider that so many fans actually cared about the reality show aspect of the series. They just figured that fans would be happy to see some of their favorite characters from the first three seasons, who they hadn't seen in nearly a decade, back no matter what form they were in. That's a perfectly understandable line of thought. Myself, I've always watched the series because of the characters, not because of the premise.