Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170419212817/@comment-1916997-20170421145926

Farerb wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote: What your talking about is a problem on a lot of tv shows though, and it is because they need to justify something in the plot, so they kind of mold the character to do what they need for that episode. Basically, if you watch enough tv shows, you just realize that is how they work, and adjust your suspention of disbelief accordingly. Not reallt, no. There are a lot of TV shows that put characters before the plot, meaning that if it doesn't make sense for a character to do something, they just don't go there. If it doesn't make sense for a certain character to remain on a show, then the character won't stay on the show anymore.

I think this is more true for old TV shows when social media was not really a thing and TV producers put more attention to "how can we write the best possible story?" instead of "how can we make our audience happy in order to maintain ratings?". It's possible, but tv shows always had to maintain ratings, otherwise they would be canceled. That didn't come up because of social media, that's because tv, like all industries, is a business, and businesses need to make profit.