02-06-2016, 04:35 PM
My experience in watching a lot of supernatural modern TV shows has taught me that people's 'bad deeds' rarely catch up with them in these type of shows. What most writers do is simply do a reboot.
Reboots are usually achieved through 'memory wipes', retrograde amnesia, possession, death and resurrection in which the resurrected comes back altered in some kind of way that they no longer relate to their old lives. Another plot also involves some characters losing their unique powers and becoming ordinary causing a tilt of balance.
Also, in most of these shows, there are rarely 'heroes' most characters are either villains or anti-heroes meaning their actions are mostly in a grey area.
Unlike daytime soaps where a person can hide a secret for 3 months or pay for their transgression eventually. The writers have 22 episodes to tell the story and wrap it up. There is not enough time to do all that so they have to find loopholes around it. The only way most characters can begin to pay dearly is by death.
The end serves to justify the means here. We may be waiting for a very long time for poetic justice.
Reboots are usually achieved through 'memory wipes', retrograde amnesia, possession, death and resurrection in which the resurrected comes back altered in some kind of way that they no longer relate to their old lives. Another plot also involves some characters losing their unique powers and becoming ordinary causing a tilt of balance.
Also, in most of these shows, there are rarely 'heroes' most characters are either villains or anti-heroes meaning their actions are mostly in a grey area.
Unlike daytime soaps where a person can hide a secret for 3 months or pay for their transgression eventually. The writers have 22 episodes to tell the story and wrap it up. There is not enough time to do all that so they have to find loopholes around it. The only way most characters can begin to pay dearly is by death.
The end serves to justify the means here. We may be waiting for a very long time for poetic justice.