The characters need to be consistent and they need to grow and they need to react to these things that happen to them and they don’t.
Agreed. I think the major reason the characters are inconsistent is because they try to cram too much plot into the story and then they need the characters to behave accordingly in order to move the plot along, instead of how they should react and behave to something, which is certainly a form of bad writing. But if they slow it down, and just focus on how the characters should behave instead of what they have been doing, I think they can fix it. If Snowing starts exhibiting more intelligence than that of a rock, and moving forward, doesn’t just leave their son behind because A&E needed them in the underworld for plot reasons, couldn’t that help fix them? Some characters have been assassinated for sure, but if they bring them back to how they should be acting, yes you could see that as inconsistent again, but if they stick with it, it would be better for the show. If you murder a character with inconsistent dialogue and behavior, can’t you bring them back to life with better writing and less plot driven motivations?
Except that they don’t want to. The two halfs format, which is partly to be blamed, have been criticized a lot, but they kept saying that that’s what works best for them (because that way they can just write 11 episodes and just forget about them and do something new and unrelated to the overall narrative of the show. In other words, that allows them to be lazy). As long as they keep the two halfs format, they will never allow characters to be properly fleshed out, everything will be contrived just to finish it fast and move on to the next shiny toy.
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