@Moppit
I'd like to give insight on "I never drop a show after I start watching it.", as I am someone who does so, but before that; I'm loving this season, and have very few issues with this season. None of which are the long conversations, in fact I feel that they're a strength of this season. I plan on giving it an 8-9/10 currently. I mention this to bring up the fact that I despised Season 2 Part 2, and had a love hate relationship with Season 2 Part 1.
So from that I'm sure my first point, and imo the most obvious one for why someone would have that mentality, is that "it can become better." That includes it objectively gets better, subjectively, or a mix of both.
My second reasoning would be related to learning, I'm personally interested in anime enough to the point of being a wannabe critic, as I had an interest in being one even before watching anime, I like to learn about what makes a show good or bad, and have even taken high school & online lessons. I might end up being a writer at some point in my life, but I am content with it being a hobby. I'm particularly interested in what makes a show good subjectively, as it constantly has me challenging my own views of something, and helps me realise when I am wrong. I'm also interested in just learning about what's even happening during the anime season, even if I absolutely despise a show, I always come out of it with something I can at least talk about and I value that. Therefor I never end up wasting my time, or at least it doesn't ever feel that way. I end up "complaining", as you put it, to voice my opinions and see what people think of them. Which ends up making me not ever being able to drop something as I always feel like I'm missing out.
My third and final reasoning is very simple, I can enjoy a show being bad because it's objectively/subjectively bad or both. You know of them, the people who watch the worst of the worst and somehow obtain enjoyment at something so horrendously bad. Except to a degree, I can do so with any anime I dislike.
IMO most people who have the same mentality, to some degree follow these 3 above. The particular distinction between most is how serious they take the 2nd reason. Some do so with an ego, thinking they're "better than everyone else" because they're slightly interested and knowledgeable. These are probably the ones you encounter the most and quite frankly they are just complaining. If I can exaggerate a bit it goes something like this, THEY know what makes a show good or bad, so THEY should watch it and voice their superior anime giga brain opinion. So all the cat girls/boys flock at them for how based their opinion is at dictating the anime. They genuinely want to learn something about the creation or what's going on currently to some capacity but they take what they know, or what they think they know, too far.
Others are interested in that way but they just don't realise it, I often questioned myself in the past why I kept putting myself through this all the time. I later learned I was just super interested in everything about it.
Both of those can be the starting point to where I've ended up, where I'm genuinely taking it seriously, albeit very slowly.
Hopefully that helps |