Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-104.33.231.45-20140912073138/@comment-11489125-20140913174853

Mgc26133 wrote: yes, but this show covers a very short amount of time in one season, and you can't expect the characters waste 2 entire seasons mourning and suffering.. death strikes you hard, but it gets boring to write and watch.. It happens on every show.. besides, if you make the characters hold on to dead, there's a pretty strong chance they'll become annoying. Allison in season 2 after her mom died, Kate on Angel after her dad died, Alex on Nikita at some point.. So making people holding on to the dead - yes, makes them look kind of apathethic or impassive, but the alternative is much worse. I disagree completely. I don't think that Allison was forgotten, at all. She's consistantly mentioned, which isn't just forgetting about her. Even at the very end of 3b, Kira was asking how long she should let Scott grieve. And if you watch Lydia's expression everytime Allison is even mentioned, it's heartbreaking. Characters that are dead make the ones they were close to different. That's not always boring, at all. It gives them time and space to grow in a world where that person isn't there anymore, and that's a very important realistic aspect. It's not always properly achieved in Teen Wolf, and even though characters like Isaac aren't given proper goodbyes, I think he was the one most affected, even though Scott and Allison were endgame, Jeff had to make the best of it with Crystal Reed leaving.