reddit ask: What TV show plot point still baffles you to this day?

[theemii]

reddit user @Inner_Squirrel7167 asked "What TV show plot point still baffles you to this day?" and here are some of the answers, you can read the whole thing at the source.

- That time in Bones when they did a crossover with Sleepy Hollow and introduced FUCKING MAGIC as a thing that exists in canon 12 SEASONS IN.

- Why do people keep working at

Comments

[ahkna]

Why the showrunners on Battlestar Galactica put "AND THEY HAVE A PLAN" for seasons on the opening credits. Then revealed...no, there was no plan because the writers didn't actually think of one first.

The entirety of Lost.

[ginainabottle]

Andie cheating on Pacey. I mean, I know it happened to make room for Joey and Pacey's toxic garbage of a relationship, but it still pisses me off TO THIS DAY.

[just444]

i hate out of nowhere cheating stories just to break up a couple

[senshi_forever]

You're right! They did Andie (and Pacey/Andie) dirty!

[blandinavian]

When Zack in Bones was suddenly a murderer. And Landry from FNL too.

Also still think it's stupid af that HIMYM spent the entire series showing us that Ted and Robin were not a good match, and then they just… ignore all of that in the last couple of minutes of the season finale.

The rape scene in Buffy.

[pi_lady]

No matter how many years pass, I will always be pissed at how the show treated the mother. Robin couldn't give him what he wanted, so he had kids with somebody else. Then they kill the mother and he goes to Robin, cheered on by the kids. The show also did a great job at showing us why Ted and Robin did not work.

I remember how relieved I was by Ted finally letting go of Robin, with her floating away, and then they went back to square 1.

[insomniachobs]

I'm still going on about it this long later because it was such *awful* writing. The pacing was beyond terrible. We'd just spent an entire season having the show invest the audience in Robin and Barney's marriage, with huge emphasis on how wrong she was for Ted... and it's not like the audience had ever really invested in Robin and Ted either, they weren't Ross and Rachel. Undoing an entire season in under five minutes to make her end game was an insane choice.

And that's insane by itself, never mind when you put it in context that it was done at the expense of wrecking the pay off everyone had actually been invested in for the entire length of the show

[overprotected]

Yeah I think they could have gotten away with it if the ENTIRE SEASON leading up to it hadn't been Robin & Barney's wedding lol. Like it was just horribly executed.

[nutella_forever]

In Dawson’s creek when they revealed that Eve was Jen’s half sister and then it got never mentioned again

[jensonanckles]

The Initiative in BTVS. I always hated it, it was so pointless.

[skyler_white_yo]

I am currently rewatching this season, and I forgot how dumb the initiative was.

[insomniachobs]

I don't think it was a terrible idea in theory, but it doesn't seem like it was properly planned out or that they really had the budget to execute it well. Like, when I heard that Lindsay Crouse was supposed to be in more episodes and then they had to kill her off because they couldn't keep her, I was so unsurprised. The whole thing smacked of being done a bit on the fly.

[shineitonme]

I always tend to skip season 4 when I do my rewatch lol