#and per your tags like i genuinely would have been fine with a further crow/mara storyline if it didn’t feel all over the place

[sovpologist]

agree, it’s been really confusing to watch them try to set up crow as hunter vanguard because i feel like all the actual “development” has happened offscreen. any kind of leadership skills, mission planning skills, etc, have all happened offscreen (like crow and mara suddenly being best buds and planning the retribution mission offscreen). i agree that it feels like the writers keep shoving crow in our faces because they want him to “earn it” and want people to like him, but it feels like they keep showing the wrong thing. they’re too scared to have crow make any kind of mistake because they don’t want the anti-uldren brigade to begin frothing at the mouth, but personally i think it’s a big mistake to write from the position of “what will the audience like? how can we get them to like this character?” instead of just writing interesting and well developed characters and going from there

the heavy narrative focus on crow confuses me because i feel like he isn't a fan favorite. he’s a very polarizing character, people either hate him or love him. and even people who really like him admit that he began to overstay his welcome in the seasonal narrative (i would say around lost, but definitely after haunted) and were glad when the writers seemed to recognize this and move on to other characters and plotlines.

the sudden heel turn not only to focus on him again but also to focus on old arcs that have already been explored and concluded (amanda didn't forgive him; he didn't want to talk to mara but was tentatively open to doing so in the future).... to ultimately come to the SAME conclusions (amanda still didn't forgive crow; mara is still interested in reconnecting but crow is still not) feels not only misguided but also completely unasked for. if crow is going to the “main character” no matter what the audience thinks of him then at least do something interesting and new with him instead of just rehashing the same couple of storylines!