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Originally posted by X/O/X/O
My point about them getting killed off when they finally start getting big is my biggest point there.
I mean, Gloria had such LITTLE screen time, and when we finally started to get more of her, after that emotional scene between her and Dandy, he shot her, then she appeared as a corpse and now she's been missing for 3 episodes in a row. She was a fantastic character, and she had little to no development at all, which comes from her lack of screen time at all. Poor use of Frances, who is such an amazing actress. We caught a glimpse of substance, then BOOM! Head shot.
Ethel was criminally underused, even after that scene with her diagnosis of cirrhosis, but then we started to get more with the big conversation between her and Elsa, only for her to get stabbed in the eye. I used that fantasy scene between her and Jimmy, but she was already dead at the point so it wasn't that useful. And now, like Gloria, she's been gone for 3 episodes in a row.
I despised Dell, and we started to see some emotion in him from Andy (who was also a lil pointless). He was about to kill himself, which was like the peak of his emotion, but we kind of swept past that easily as if it never happened. He showed more in that scene when he came clean about killing Ma Petite, only for him to get killed by Elsa. If we were going to develop him like that, I actually wanted him to live more, even though I was BEGGING for him to die around the time he first showed up and when he killed queen Mahadevi.
And then Maggie was also barely seen, accumulating like 5 minutes of screen time max, and we figured she wasn't going to do much. In this past episode, she was finally about to rise up for some redemption, and she even SAVED the freaks from Stanley's ways, yet they killed her and moved on as if she isn't the reason they're all still alive.
I mean...
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Everything about this post is so messy...
I truly feel like each one of the characters you mentioned met their end at the right time. Anything after that would've seemed like they were beating a dead horse.
Minus Maggie each one of their deaths helped propel the story further... just because you might not like how it all happened doesn't mean it's poor storytelling.
I've also seen you complain constantly about how Frances hasn't made an appearance in three episodes... what do you expect? Homegirl is dead and gone...
Ryan finally kills characters... they STAY dead and ya'll are still fuming.