Fans get ever so attached to "their" series so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that someone came up with a term to describe their rejection of bits of story-arc that they don't like. Krypto-revisionism (yes, a pun on the Superman reboot) - and here's what Wikipedia mentions about a certain Film That Should Not Be Named:
"Another example of this would be the Highlander movie franchise. Many people chose to ignore the second movie because they believed it turned everything laid out in the first movie on its ear, just to make a quick buck. The makers of the third Highlander movie practiced their own form of Krypto-revisionism and continued the franchise in the vein of the first movie, choosing to disregard the whole plot of Highlander 2."
Now you see, krypto-revisionism sounds silly and petty and, well, fannish. But that bit about the Unnameable Sequel, well, that just makes sense.
"Another example of this would be the Highlander movie franchise. Many people chose to ignore the second movie because they believed it turned everything laid out in the first movie on its ear, just to make a quick buck. The makers of the third Highlander movie practiced their own form of Krypto-revisionism and continued the franchise in the vein of the first movie, choosing to disregard the whole plot of Highlander 2."
Now you see, krypto-revisionism sounds silly and petty and, well, fannish. But that bit about the Unnameable Sequel, well, that just makes sense.