Note to writers - most of your readers (there are exceptions of course but not many) really don't give a shit about you, they care about the fictional characters you have written or are taking over from someone else, and more to the point what you are doing with them.
Truer words have never been spoken. Although I want to point out that there is a difference between doing something to the characters that the fans don't like, and writing them OOC. I can cope with the former (no matter how much it might hurt), but can't abide the latter.