I think that just disengaging from the intense emotions of the fandom for a couple of months helped a lot, as well as thinking about the show in terms of other closed-canon fandoms I've had before. I've fanned on a lot of shows and movies and anime that would have been massively disappointing if I hadn't known "that's all there is, they're never going to do this cool thing or explain that mystery over there" and then worked from that point onwards. (There's one manga, in fact, that converted me to being a fan with the very last installment ... out of something like 300. Granted, I hadn't actually read all of those prior to converting to the fan-love, but if it was still ongoing, I doubt if I'd enjoy it nearly as much; instead I look back on it with a lot of fondness.)
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I think that just disengaging from the intense emotions of the fandom for a couple of months helped a lot, as well as thinking about the show in terms of other closed-canon fandoms I've had before. I've fanned on a lot of shows and movies and anime that would have been massively disappointing if I hadn't known "that's all there is, they're never going to do this cool thing or explain that mystery over there" and then worked from that point onwards. (There's one manga, in fact, that converted me to being a fan with the very last installment ... out of something like 300. Granted, I hadn't actually read all of those prior to converting to the fan-love, but if it was still ongoing, I doubt if I'd enjoy it nearly as much; instead I look back on it with a lot of fondness.)