An open letter...
Dear Television,
While I applaud your recent efforts to create more realistic, fully-dimensional characters, please note that there's more to being morally ambiguous than just arbitrarily shifting between "good" and "evil".
Conflicted heroes and villains should still have agendas and goals, and merely having them randomly switch sides for no reason doesn't make them more complex and interesting. It just makes them come across as confusing and possibly mentally ill.
Please do keep trying though.
Sincerely,
A Viewer
While I applaud your recent efforts to create more realistic, fully-dimensional characters, please note that there's more to being morally ambiguous than just arbitrarily shifting between "good" and "evil".
Conflicted heroes and villains should still have agendas and goals, and merely having them randomly switch sides for no reason doesn't make them more complex and interesting. It just makes them come across as confusing and possibly mentally ill.
Please do keep trying though.
Sincerely,
A Viewer