Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-71.202.210.157-20150224231124

Not sure if it belongs here but here I go.They kill them for shock value which doesn't help the series. It doesn't give character development or furthers the plot unless its a mass murder. My main problem is how most of the characters react after someone they loved just died it seems hollow. I know death is a part of the show and they can't worry about the dead because they have the living to worry about is just an excuse as to not address how these things affect and change them. The rare moments when they do show them going through something like this they just don't decide not to follow through with the development and make it seem like what they just experience didn't happen a few episodes later.

For Example:

Thelonious who to me was finally facing his emotions, decisions and how they affected and changed him. In "Inclement Weather" we finally see him deal with his emotions and in "Many Happy Returns" we see how they changed him. He regretted sending his son to die. In a tweet from Jason "I think Jaha admires Sienna. She made a choice Jaha couldn’t have. Jaha chose to send Wells to the ground." She sacrifice everything for her son and when you see his reaction to this he wished he did the same. Now he must live with the fact he let his son die. He sacrificed himself for Zoran and his parents because he wanted to be a better man and do right by everyone not just his people, he even told Sienne he had no room for hate.

Unfortunately they threw all that development out the window just to make him fill a role they wanted to fill. He became distrustful of the Grounders didn't even want to make peace with them he just thought about hhow he could save his people. He became so preachy about how he would save his people by finding the city of light and coming back for them like some kind of messiah. That just ruined the character for me. He's not the only character they seem to have done this to. Does anybody else agree? Any characters you have in mind.  