Oh, definitely. Lots of us have been critical of "Safe House" (the Amador death episode), for that and other reasons. Check out the "Safe House" post for a pretty brutal critique from a lot of the members.
I, for one, definitely blame the writers rather than the actors for that. If they'd showed some of the Amador-Stan friendship scenes in the episodes leading up to "Safe House" rather than flashing back to them, it would have come across totally differently (and been much more effective). The good news, though, is that the writers have said publicly that they weren't happy with the way their storytelling worked there (and they mentioned the Zhukov-Elizabeth relationship as a similar problem), so they're likely to take steps to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen again in the future.
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Date: 2013-09-07 01:52 pm (UTC)I, for one, definitely blame the writers rather than the actors for that. If they'd showed some of the Amador-Stan friendship scenes in the episodes leading up to "Safe House" rather than flashing back to them, it would have come across totally differently (and been much more effective). The good news, though, is that the writers have said publicly that they weren't happy with the way their storytelling worked there (and they mentioned the Zhukov-Elizabeth relationship as a similar problem), so they're likely to take steps to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen again in the future.
-J