I think that whether or not we're able to express it this well, this is what is bothering most of the fans/viewers at this point. This is what we have consensus on. I've seen shippers and non-shippers alike rather annoyed at this episode (and everything leading up to it - these problems have been building for a while now, as you noted, they've just come to a nasty head and burst).
I don't think we'd be as upset if they didn't do so many things well. But it's confusing for them to do a lot of amazing things - and then let basic character continuity fall into the toilet. (The sister's name thing - holy COW, that should have been caught long before it was. It wasn't that long ago that the sister was mentioned and named...and perhaps the ep writer can be cut some slack for not knowing it, but the script's got to go through a chain of command eventually, right? You're saying that that no one thought 'hey wait a minnit...let me go look this up'? And that's not even a particularly important issue, story-wise...it just highlights the utter carelessness that appears to be expressing itself more and more.)
I also wish the writers/showrunners would stop to understand this. That it's not just 'oh, fans just want kissy-face, and they can't understand what goes into making a good dramatic story'. We *do* understand it, which is why we're so frustrated.
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I think that whether or not we're able to express it this well, this is what is bothering most of the fans/viewers at this point. This is what we have consensus on. I've seen shippers and non-shippers alike rather annoyed at this episode (and everything leading up to it - these problems have been building for a while now, as you noted, they've just come to a nasty head and burst).
I don't think we'd be as upset if they didn't do so many things well. But it's confusing for them to do a lot of amazing things - and then let basic character continuity fall into the toilet. (The sister's name thing - holy COW, that should have been caught long before it was. It wasn't that long ago that the sister was mentioned and named...and perhaps the ep writer can be cut some slack for not knowing it, but the script's got to go through a chain of command eventually, right? You're saying that that no one thought 'hey wait a minnit...let me go look this up'? And that's not even a particularly important issue, story-wise...it just highlights the utter carelessness that appears to be expressing itself more and more.)
I also wish the writers/showrunners would stop to understand this. That it's not just 'oh, fans just want kissy-face, and they can't understand what goes into making a good dramatic story'. We *do* understand it, which is why we're so frustrated.