To be fair, I have not followed his writing that closely, but he does seem to have the 'I'll check this fandom out and explain why everybody else's opinions are wrong.'

I remember naively watching Spike/Buffy and being into it and not being aware of all the fannish controversy. And then when I discovered it, it kind of scared me away from the ship. It is complicated, and in the hard-to-talk-about way, not the fun-complicated way.