My big quibble with the Season 4 finale (spoilers)

So why did the writers think it was a good idea to have Daya hold the gun? She has exhibited no taste for violence in the past and was not one of the aggrieved inmates. They laid no storyline pipe for her to have this moment - there was no scene of her being terrorized by the guards and she never exhibited an actual desire to truly break bad.

The writing staff clearly wanted to realize her mother's worst nightmare: Daya crossing a line and being fundamentally changed by prison life. But this season did nothing to show an actual change in Daya, other than her hanging out with the gang.

So when she picks up that gun, it does not feel earned. I don't understand why she is doing this or why she deserves the satisfaction. You could have put the gun in the hand of 20 other characters who would make more narrative sense and it would be more satisfying.

Dascha Polanco has done solid work on this show, but she has been completely unable to sell this underwritten character pivot. When she brandishes the gun at the guards, the moment is shockingly phony.

It just struck me as forced, like the moving of a chess piece instead of an actual character making an organic decision. 'Orange in the New Black' regularly is better than this and I thought it was a shame that it would fumble a season climax this way.

"This aggression will not stand, Man."
- Plato