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

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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.