[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 062 secrets from Secret Submission Post #409.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

Not something (though there's the whole of the series as well...) but someone: Downton Abbey's Thomas Barrow. He keeps getting tiny slivers of character development that all get retconned almost immediately. He is a character written completely incapable of change. And things that are important in his plot get brushed off in a less-than-five-minutes scene, while in the same episode, the topic of Lady Mary's new hairstyle needs about 15 minutes of screentime. It's frustrating, annoying and simply a waste of potential.

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

Urg anon this so much. I just sometimes feel like the writers want to have there cake and eat it too. They want to tell an interesting story using all of those cool controversial gay stories but they don't really want to offend anyone or make any characters unsympathetic. And they still need some sort of antagonist for the good characters to go against and make them look better and cause drama. He seems more a device then a well rounded character.

And the worst thing is that he is still the best gay character I can think of in an ensemble drama. When he is good he is an interesting character without to much stereotypes who is still unavoidably gay.

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's the sad thing: We keep getting small bits and pieces in the right direction, but then a giant leap backwards.

I don't even need him to be a sympathetic character. But the way he's written is so frustratingly one-note that it got old three seasons ago. He keeps making the same mistakes over and over again and it keeps backfiring in his face and he is always saved by some deus-ex-machina like intervention. Every single time.

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly I don't really mind if he stays a massive arse but at least some motivation for why he is being a shit. The random hate-on for Bates just makes no sense.

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

It was so disappointing, thinking that caring about someone besides himself might make a changed man of him--but maybe he thought "this is what happens when you care about anyone but yourself" and just re-armored himself.

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't even mind all of his assholishness but it's so badly written. This whole OTT mustache twirling bad guy thing is getting really old, especially since there rarely is any explanation for it. If they spent a little more time on some of the Downstairs peoples' motivations instead of filling episode upon episode on "Who will the Upstairs people fuck/marry/kill"...

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

IKR? this makes me sad.