"... Being out of step with your fandom is no fun."

I agree with everything you say above, but especially this. I really don't enjoy hating anything or anyone. It's just that, when your brain is in critique mode, it's actually working. When a person is just being completely uncritical and adoring about anything, I think it's dangerous. I really do. It turns your brain to mush. However, as I pointed out above, I also think -- and this is just my own opinion -- that everyone has certain areas they tend to be more or less critically engaged with. We can't all be hypercritical about everything. I tend to ignore certain flaws, and become enraged about others. It's just how my own unique brain works, or something. So, when I ignore plot holes in shows I love, it's because I don't care all that much about plot holes, most of the time. Unless the plot holes are used to support something I do care about a lot -- like the ethics of the show. In this case, it's one flaw piled upon another.