I agree with this too. I've always been too nervous to say this, but here goes.
Even though I love the show, I'm not a fan of the fans. Or at least the ones I've seen posting on youtube and tumblr. Perhaps my mistake was going on youtube and tumblr in the first place, but..
I'm a book nerd. I love the original story of Carmilla. I first read it about 10 years ago and was hooked on the story and the implications of the novel. Carmilla is arguably the first vampire in literature, predating stupid Dracula fanghead by 10 years. It's just unfortunate that he got the fame for it and she didn't.
Carmilla the novel is one of the best and first gothic horrors ever written, and arguably not just the first vampire story ever written, but the first lesbian one too. It's a pioneer in these respects. I adore how eerie and dark and depressing it is - and I love how the story doesn't span across just the 90 pages it's contained in. It's said in the novel that Carmilla is a cursed monster who is doomed to fall in love with a girl only to end up killing her, over and over and over again throughout history. The novel suggests that even after the story has ended in 1871, that's just one of the numerous times that Carmilla has loved and killed a girl and she's just going to keep doing it for an eternity. She's a broken record. With fangs. It's awful and dark but damn it's a good story. There's a few novels (written by other authors obviously) that tell her story but set in the modern day, where it's pretty much just a repeat of the original story just with a contemporary setting. Some of them are quite worth a read.
Then this show comes along, and don't get me wrong I love it - I'm hooked. I think the writing is stellar and they've created what is definitely my favourite adaptation so far.
But..the fans. God damn, the fans. I like a bit of romance but it's all the fans seem to care about. I don't think any of them have read the book. I don't think many of them even know it is a book. Someone posted here a little while ago a thread that referred to the book - and it got no upvotes and no comments. It pains me a bit. No one seems to care where this great show and where these great characters originated from.
I might be wrong but I feel like the majority of people who like this show know nothing about the character that it's based on. They don't know that all the characters (including LaFontaine, Perry, and Betty) are named after and based on characters in the book. They don't know that Laura's Dad is overbearing and protective because that's how he was in the novel (except here, he teaches her martial arts instead of locking her up in a castle). They don't get the dozens of references the first series made to the novel, in the script and in the scenery. They don't know that the dreams of cats and smoke clouds in series one are in fact Carmilla's way of slowly killing her victim. They don't know that Carmilla is actually an immortal kind of evil monster - and they don't care. All they care about is the fluffy fanservice.
I looked on http://fyeahcarmilla.tumblr.com/ after the first episode of the new season aired, because it (used to) often have some good fanart or stories or discussion. But all I found was literally 3 pages of nothing but gifs of that kiss and posts going 'OMFG THEY KISSED AHMAGAD' - and I facepalmed.
There is so, so much more to Carmilla than that little fluffy bit of romance. But it's all the fans seem to focus on. Perhaps that's not the case and it's just the fans who have the loudest voices. And I feel like I'm all alone in being the only person who cares about the book..
I'm sorry. Getting off my soapbox now!