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Originally Posted by Swaggs
In the TV show, those displays may appear poorly written or stupid at first glance, but I think they are, at worst, good attempts to show different aspects of the characters (as opposed to the characters doing what we think they should do or what we might do).
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And in part, frustrating though it can be at times, this is what makes this interesting. It's very very easy to go overboard with making characters unsympathetic & having audiences turn on them, something they'll have to be careful about. So far however, they've managed to keep enough people on the side of enough of the humans (even if not always the same ones) to keep you pulling for them. Narrow as some of them may be, there's also an onion layer or two to nearly every character and I think viewers have managed to connect with that. Flawed people in a brutal situation, trying to come to grips with it & maybe just doing the best they can at the moment, imperfect though it may often be.
And last night I was surprised to find myself actually pulling for the survival of even some characters that tend to annoy me.