I feel sorry for Kathryn Prescott, and the other actors...

I feel sorry for Kathryn Prescott, and the other actors. It must be terrible to be a competent, professional actor, who is hired to play one character, only to have the money-men yank the senior producer, and replace them with a new producers who has a mandate to rewrite all the roles, forcing you to play a different character.

When the show first came out another viewer directed our attention to an interview with Terri Minsky, who seems like both a talented producer and a genuinely nice person. In that interview she said that when she told actor Milena Govich the backstory to her character Lori Stevens (Carter's kidnapper and would-be mom) she found that story so heart-breaking that she was brought to tears. Well, that seems to indicate a jarring character rewrite. Is there any element of Lori Stevens's character that would trigger any sympathy, let alone bring anyone to tears?

Was Kathryn Prescott's character Carter rewritten to be less competent, less independent?

Alexis Denisof's character, David Wilson -- there is a massive rewrite. He was originally written to be a cold, selfish deceiver and betrayer -- unloving and unloveable. He promised Carter he wouldn't write about her, but nevertheless quickly drafted a manuscript to Finding Carter, his followup to Losing Lyndon. He was content to see his children go through painful and embarrassing family therapy, when he planned to split as soon as he cashed in on his new book. He hid from Elizabeth that he owed his publisher $500,000 -- an advance on royalties he had to pay back for an undelivered manuscript. And then, of course, he betrayed his marital vows with Lori Stevens.

Now? Now he is a wise and doting dad. $500,000 debt? Forgotten. Plans to abandon his wife and children? Forgotten.

Denisof is a good actor, when given a chance. I didn't realize he was one of the bad guys on Grimm. He did a fine job there. But an actor can't do a good job when management keeps rewriting who they are.