I agree with Brent that sometimes shippers or other genre fans can add subtext to a show the creator did not mean. Harlan Ellison famously called a critic on that will at some panel after the critic had went on and on about some extra layer of subtext and meaning that Ellison never intended.

That all said, sometimes the audience know better the work of art that was produced (as opposed to what was intended) better than the artist. Sometimes the artist is simply wrong about his or her interpretation of their work–or least the audience’s interpretation is “better”. Or put simply: Han fired first.

– Ken from Chicago