3. There's No Character Development Or Consistency
because no one actually does anything that makes sense in this show. Our protagonists and supporting cast change their minds and their positions on important things from episode to episode, never mind from season to season. There are rarely, if ever, character-defining moments or arcs that explain the sudden changes of personality. It just happens. Now, we know that the mindset of True Blood is that its crazier than a fox in a chicken wig, but a story has to have some form of coherent internal logic even when its about things that dont exist killing or having wrong sex with other things (that dont exist). Were being asked to care about what happens to these people, after all. Terrible things are occurring to them all on a daily basis, when theyre not having inexplicable six month and year-long jumps in the story when its not important what happened just shhh and watch what happens next. Were still supposed to be invested enough to give a damn when horrible things happen to the good guys. But the problem is that these are not characters. Theyre ciphers, adaptable to changes of plot and circumstance. Theyre anything the writers need them to be at any given moment, able to turn on a dime and on a whim. You cant become properly invested in people that arent people, just like you cant bring yourself to care about
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