obsessionisaperfume:

I’m totally with you on that, Nonny, and I’m usually the first one to say that if it showed up on my screen, it is BY DEFINITION not OOC because the character actually did do whatever, and then find a way to reconcile what doesn’t seem to fit.  I’m usually about finding reasons for what the characters do from inside the story.

I’m pretty laid-back about the writing, and a lot of things that I see people ranting about don’t fash me overmuch because I can usually find an internal reason for stuff, but even I have trouble with some of the character decisions the writers made in the last episode. 

I can see what they were trying to do–split Charlie off from the very powerful angel who could have just smote the crap out of Styne and saved her, and then putting her in the motel bathroom where there wasn’t a lot of maneuvering room in a fight, but I agree with the complaint that she should have had more than a knife with her.  

People develop their own ideas of where a story is going, and they don’t want to let go of that idea, even in the face of clear indications that the story is headed someplace else.  That’s why so many of us tried so hard to find ways that the foreshadowing of Charlie’s death that we were seeing was wrong.  Most of us are able to adjust to the new direction eventually, but some people can’t make that adjustment easily, and some of them just plain won’t.

I can sympathize with the ones who find it hard to adjust to the story going a way they didn’t expect and don’t like, because I have been there and done that, but the ones who refuse to accept things they don’t like and outright deny what they’re seeing on screen is canon make me very, very cranky. (And I’m not even talking about Supernatural, yo. This goes WAY back for me.)

But yeah.  “I don’t like this, it doesn’t make sense!” is not always due to bad writing.