Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43756665-20200112065842/@comment-43757330-20200112163309

Lord Jaric wrote: If Cinder lives to the final season it is because it was planned from the start. While I agree with you in principle, this just isn't true. We don't have any idea how far along they had this planned at the time of Monty's death, and we don't know if they had any preestablished notion of when Cinder or any of the other characters were going to die.

Personally, I think it's kinda excusatory to just say, 'well, this was planned from the start'. It's like subtly blaming Monty for the state of the show, and that's just not fair. We need to start holding Miles and Kerry solely accountable for the creative choices they're making. Because even Monty did have a hand in the whole plot up until V7, who is to say he wouldn't have made changes along the way?

This is Miles and Kerry's show now. They own it, and anything that happens on it is firmly on them. Even if Monty had wanted Cinder to go to the end, they have the right and the obligation to override him if it's the right thing to do for the show's sake. And it is.