1. Padmé Amidala: Yes, I know that I’ve ranted about this in the past, but her role and character in the third prequel film really were so disappointing. I wish that her romance and marriage with Anakin had been written well, but I also wish that *she* had been written well. George Lucas set her up to be an awesome character (queen, senator, and fighter) and then he dropped the ball on her.
2. Korra: Again, so much potential and her writers failed her. Korra didn’t learn anything at the end of Season 1 and she’s barely learned anything since. Her show is called “Legend of Korra,” and yet it seems to be about everything *but* her. Where’s her personal journey? Where are the episodes where she fully learned from her mistakes and grew as a result? Where are the positive changes that she made as Avatar (did she solve the Equalist issue? No. It just went away. Did she solve the issue with the spirits? No. It’s just brushed under the rug.)?
3. Sakura Sakurakoji: Because she just got derailed. At the beginning of her manga, she was a tough, principled, and no-nonsense girl who knew how to fight and didn’t back down even when facing a boy who could burn her to a crisp. Then, for some ungodly reason, her writers decided to transform her into a preachy, useless, and annoying tag-a-long whose sole method of attack was to glomp people.
4. Misa Amane: Because I get the feeling that Tsugumi Ohba just didn’t know what to do with her. She started out as a bubbly owner of a Death Note who learned who Kira was and ended up being Light’s devoted minion. Seriously, she could have ended the manga early by just going to the police and telling them who Kira was. She could have used her knowledge to threaten or blackmail Light into doing her bidding. But no, instead she ended up being a deluded airhead who put up with Light’s abuse, was shunted to the side to make way for more minions for Light, and ended up as an afterthought.
5. Hermione Granger: Oh, Hermione, where did you go wrong? How did you go from a bossy, insecure, but loyal, intelligent, and hardworking friend to a ruthless fanatic who branded Marietta’s face, sent Ron to the hospital wing, and mind-wiped her own parents? Why, Hermione, why?
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13 - That I wish had better development/writing
Date: 2014-10-18 06:26 pm (UTC)2. Korra: Again, so much potential and her writers failed her. Korra didn’t learn anything at the end of Season 1 and she’s barely learned anything since. Her show is called “Legend of Korra,” and yet it seems to be about everything *but* her. Where’s her personal journey? Where are the episodes where she fully learned from her mistakes and grew as a result? Where are the positive changes that she made as Avatar (did she solve the Equalist issue? No. It just went away. Did she solve the issue with the spirits? No. It’s just brushed under the rug.)?
3. Sakura Sakurakoji: Because she just got derailed. At the beginning of her manga, she was a tough, principled, and no-nonsense girl who knew how to fight and didn’t back down even when facing a boy who could burn her to a crisp. Then, for some ungodly reason, her writers decided to transform her into a preachy, useless, and annoying tag-a-long whose sole method of attack was to glomp people.
4. Misa Amane: Because I get the feeling that Tsugumi Ohba just didn’t know what to do with her. She started out as a bubbly owner of a Death Note who learned who Kira was and ended up being Light’s devoted minion. Seriously, she could have ended the manga early by just going to the police and telling them who Kira was. She could have used her knowledge to threaten or blackmail Light into doing her bidding. But no, instead she ended up being a deluded airhead who put up with Light’s abuse, was shunted to the side to make way for more minions for Light, and ended up as an afterthought.
5. Hermione Granger: Oh, Hermione, where did you go wrong? How did you go from a bossy, insecure, but loyal, intelligent, and hardworking friend to a ruthless fanatic who branded Marietta’s face, sent Ron to the hospital wing, and mind-wiped her own parents? Why, Hermione, why?