Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-25425003-20140916030507

I agree this season had a problem with the writing for everyone. The writing for Malia was the worst, though (IMO), because of the degree to which they've made her a ridiculous character. I realize this is a show about werewolves, but when you create a character that's a werecoyote and you give her the background they gave Malia (eight years, mother and sister, and later Eichen House) then you have to explain at least some of those things. But they didn't. Instead, they stick her in high school and put her with Stiles and expect everyone to just assume she's doing fine, except when they need her to be weird for a funny line. The other characters weren't written THAT badly.

Everyone has their own limit to what they can or can't put up with in a show. For me, I can take stupid plot lines as long as the characters and relationships are done well. It's when the characters - especially main ones in the opening credits - start being written badly that I question whether the show is worth it. I want to like the people I'm watching, even if I'm laughing at plot holes. I want to root for the characters and care about their relationships - not just romantic ones but family ones and friendships.

I couldn't like Malia because she made no sense. I had no idea why we never saw her father, why she was in high school, why she had been in Eichen House and able to leave by herself, etc. For me, she was the limit to what I could take. That's my response to the OP about whether someone could actually quit watching a show they like just because of one character.

(BTW, those two comments earlier upthread were me.  My browser keeps logging me out.)