Can you enjoy shows when you hate the direction it goes in?

[NameGoesHere1066]

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

How about if a character you like gets crapped on by the writers and starts being written in a way that you hate? Or they get the shaft for creative plot purposes. Does anyone have any examples of this happening in their favorite shows?

Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald from the soap opera Passions. SHe was a character I think the writer took particular joy in writing in demeaning humiliating ways where nothing would go her way, while simultaneously making her look like an asshole trying to get ahead or keep people from getting one over her. The reason she would look like an asshole is because when people would lie and cheat and try to screw her over, she would retaliate but she would always be made out to look like the bad guy because the people messing with her would never get caught. But when she would get caught to was ushaully some dragged out painful scene where she would be completely humilated and treated like crap. There was one scene where she had her baby taken away from her because she would not drop charges against the bitch who tried to kill her--and the baby was given to her would be killer.



It got to the point where I could not even watch it any more because notrhing good ever happened to her and the people who would hurt her always got away with it, and if she retaliated she got punished for it. like in this scene here I just posted.

If a writer can not write something in a way where it is the same outcome (so-in-so is always the one who is going to get screwed over, it is just a matter of how) then I can't watch it. It is just frustrating after awhile especially if it just doesn't have any pay off.

I'd say Castiel on Supernatural. Great character in season 4 and 5, but post-apocolypse seasons... not so much

I also watch this. Can you explain what you mean here? I am on season 5 right now.

[turtlefanforever]

once it goes in the wrong direction I stop watching

[Jelly Bean]

Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066

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Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald from the soap opera Passions. SHe was a character I think the writer took particular joy in writing in demeaning humiliating ways where nothing would go her way, while simultaneously making her look like an asshole trying to get ahead or keep people from getting one over her. The reason she would look like an asshole is because when people would lie and cheat and try to screw her over, she would retaliate but she would always be made out to look like the bad guy because the people messing with her would never get caught. But when she would get caught to was ushaully some dragged out painful scene where she would be completely humilated and treated like crap. There was one scene where she had her baby taken away from her because she would not drop charges against the bitch who tried to kill her--and the baby was given to her would be killer.




It got to the point where I could not even watch it any more because notrhing good ever happened to her and the people who would hurt her always got away with it, and if she retaliated she got punished for it. like in this scene here I just posted.

If a writer can not write something in a way where it is the same outcome (so-in-so is always the one who is going to get screwed over, it is just a matter of how) then I can't watch it. It is just frustrating after awhile especially if it just doesn't have any pay off.



I also watch this. Can you explain what you mean here? I am on season 5 right now.

Good God! Just the look of that blonde girls shiteating smirk as she bounced that baby in her arms while the mother cried over losing her is enough for me to NEVER get involved in a show with a storyline like that. I think that is why I have never liked or bothered to get into soap operas. They seem to be the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as television entertainment goes. There whole thing seems to hinge on dragging out storylines and and keeping people who should be ****ing murdered out of harms way.

This is something I can not stand. Have any of you read a story or watched a show where a certain plot development happened and you just wanted it to be resolved and it just kept draging on forever and forever!

What I don't like is when I get the feeling the writer does not know how to resolve the issue so it keeps being dragged on forever for the sake of drama or maintaining the status quo. That is the worse because I think unless they strike while the iron is hot most people will get fed up waiting for a resolution or the pay off. Has this happened to anyone?

[Krutch]

Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066

I also watch this. Can you explain what you mean here? I am on season 5 right now.

Without spoiling its difficult, but, needless to say the character makes some very large and irrational decisions, completely out of character and out of nowhere during season 6. And Season 7 in general made a habit of returning powerful characters to be the silly comic relief.

You'll see