Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-24.229.140.201-20140915221432

Mgc, I don't think your perspective and the one stated above are mutually exclusive. Some people think Malia was introduced badly. Some may think Kira was. Personally, I think Malia was badly written in both of her seasons so far and Kira was decently written in 3b but badly written in S4. Malia was introduced as a werecoyote who killed (possibly ate) her mother and sister. We get hardly any explanation about how she feels about that now. She shows up in Eichen House, but we don't know why she's there or how she's able to just leave on her own at the end of the episode. She and Stiles may have had sex there, and there are all kinds of consent issues involved in that that a lot of don't like. In Season Four, she should be living with her adoptive dad, but we never see him (and the show could easily have recast him if the actor was unavailable), and she seems to be practically living with Stiles. She's Peter's daughter, but again we get hardly any scenes of them together, or of her showing how she feels about that. She hasn't been in school since she was eight, but they put her in Lydia's math class? Come on, that's just stupid on the part of the writers. And all season long, when she does something that's supposed to show that she is having problems adjusting, they do it in a way that's played as a joke and have her quasi-boyfriend apologize for it. (Frankly, if my boyfriend apologized for my behavior all the time we'd have broken up, because that's not cool.)  So  yes, she was badly written.

But I'll accept that some people think Kira was badly introduced, too.

You may not care what goes on behind the scenes, and that's fine. I don't much care about it either. But telling someone they're channeling their dislike on the wrong person or contradicting themselves just because you think they actually dislike something else instead doesn't make sense. People can legitimately dislike the character on her own merits. In fact, a lot of people do.