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The second season's writing was AWFUL just AWFUL.

posted 9 years ago by dudde_lovve
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The second season's writing was AWFUL just AWFUL. I will fully admit to hate watching this show at points this season because the writing was so bad. The actors they have playing the characters are for the most part pretty good but they can only do so much with what they were given.

I have read that the show's creator was taken off the show following the first season due to her obligation with other shows and a new show runner was put in place but now they are probably bringing the creator on board for rewrites before filming continues to try and save the show's writing. They have to do something because its so bad.

When they made Lori the egg donor right in the first episode this season the show went downhill as they contradicted there own writing from season 1 and the ratings tanked and the stories got worse and worse as the season went. Its like they blew up their show for no reason. On top of that they did not even know their own characters when they were writing stories making them do things that were way out of character.

If they are smart and really want to fix the show they need to end the farce of a trial with Lori in jail (they botched the story to be so unbelievable its time to move on, different writers maybe the Lori story line works) and Carter having nothing to do with her. I think they started this process when they had Carter say on the stand she was done with Lori, her name is Carter Wilson and Elizabeth his her mother. It has to be done because the manipulation got to the point where it made Carter unlikable. The Ben character can work and be a plus for the show with additional storytelling so long as Lori is out the picture. But what I don't understand (granted the whole trial is a farce) is how this kid is going to be a character witness for Lori as its clear he was taken from her for some reason.

To sum it up end the trial Lori in jail, Carter finally able to move forward in life, tell the story of the Wilson's regrowing together and with Ben if he is indeed David's son, write better teenage angst and drama that fits with the characters and remove the dead weight characters such as Madison, Damon and possibly Bird.

[–] xXenomicXx 9 years ago

Every episode is awful! There is not one scene I can't predict what is going to happen.

[–] sexbunnyalex 9 years ago

Agreed. They should have never had any sort of egg donor. Lori being the egg donor was stupid.

Lori should have went to jail, because even if Carter does love her and even if she is her mother, parents can and do kidnap their children. In fact they're often the first suspects. It is illegal to take a child from the other parent without letting them know where you are. That whole plotline was stupid.

The only way to salvage this season is to reveal that the entire thing is a delusion of Lori's, and that Carter is tied up somewhere and the entire second season never happened. No Ben, no bar job, no Lori getting out of it, and no Lori being the egg donor or any egg donor at all.

[–] dudde_lovve 9 years ago

So I stopped watching this show but I have been reading the EW episode recaps of the episodes and it looks like it has gotten even dumber then season 2A.

Lori walks free from trial to open the season (are you kidding me) - she kidnapped Carter at age 3, Carter is found again 16, Lori stalks Carter, drugs Carter, kidnaps her again, holds her against her will with a gun, forces Carter to call Taylor, holds Liz and Carter with a gun while revealing the egg donor (totally changed the story right here) while trying to kidnap Taylor as well (Hollaback with the Season 2A jump the shark moment). I can never get past the Lori character and story line its so far beyond belief it ruins the whole show.

Carter is the most unlikable lead character ever written, such a brat and punk. So now she drops out of school starts dating a 30 year old and working at his bar underage, Liz would never allow this being a cop. Doesn't believe or trust Liz at all but believes CRAZY Lori and moves in with her after what she did and believes this 30 year old dude after finding out he is married with a kid and who is obviously no good.

Sounds like the Ben character has been a big waste of time, from the recaps his story is just another non needed character like Bird, Mason, etc. because they already have enough over the top story lines going. What happened to David?

Then they go and try to do a love triangle between Max - Taylor - Gabe but no fans care about Gabe enough to root for him in the triangle, they have shown over the 2 seasons I watched Gabe and Taylor are friends and she loves Max. I mean they already did that stupid Carter-Max hook up in 2A that was just dumb fodder and totally unnecessary because they established Max and Taylor's romance so well. That hookup made no sense just like the triangle.

Anyway I couldn't watch 2B so I read the recaps because I want to know how Liz, Taylor and Max end up as they are the three characters on the show who you can actually get behind and root for. Gabe as well if they give him a real story.