Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-26500342-20160108000001/@comment-71.94.221.9-20160216201804

Skyzy wrote: TheOmegaWerewolf wrote: The writers need to tread carefully. It seems like a few mains will be getting killed off this season, which could really hurt the ratings. I warned about this a few times over hiatus. It's all fine and good to want to be like GoT, however, when you don't have the same viewership, you have to be a lot more aware of who you kill off and especially how you kill them off.

Here is the thing, writers of a show should never let the fans dictate where the show goes or what the characters do just because they have fans. It should always remain true to the vision that the creators have for the show. As someone who was a huge fan of Joss Whedon's work on Buffy, Angel, Firefly (to a lesser extint Dollhouse) this is something he often touched upon. Often using the quote, "dont give people what they want, give them what they need." The creators know what narrative tones they want to hit, thematically this show is about far more than ships and stans. The head brass at CW told Rothenberg from the get go to go darker, they didn't want another protoypical CW show. In a show in which death and war are common place then people you love are going to die, that is the reality of the situation these characters live in. It doesnt mean much if the stakes aren't high. When shows start to cater to vocal parts of their fanbase then the quality of the story telling gets bad real quick, Vampire Diaries is a perfect CW example of that.