Thread:Greenhatdigital/@comment-1141831-20140801171143/@comment-1037137-20140805031841

There can be a perfectly dramatic and exciting season without doing things that turn us against the characters we enjoy and distorting them by exploiting their worst flaws or by straight up ignoring the problems with them. Character development is where it has been suffering the most, it just isn't there and has made the experience frustrating for too many. It's been a problem for a long time, All-Stars is where it was at its worst. It did not resonate well because of how bad the derailments had become, where everyone was so far removed from their old selves and the positive development absent that it's hard to ignore. Whatever the nature of the production schedule, that doesn't excuse the toll taken on nearly everyone in the series.