I didn't like that it broke the fourth wall either. I thought the fandom portrayal was okay, far better than in many other series (especially considering that the part of fandom they gave a nod to was incest porn), but I don't enjoy fiction about fictional characters becoming aware they are written. I like to pretend the fiction is "real" while I watch to immerse myself in the story, and meta intrusions collapse that fantasy, and make the fiction less real. I'm not into that whole post-modern ironic detachment or whatever this self-referential mindset is called.