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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabari Lamar" data-source="post: 266237" data-attributes="member: 2208">Nah, Cidre was pretty clear that he was to be dead. They'd already started writing the next season, jumping ahead six months with him still dead and Bobby dealing with the fallout. I mean it's true it's a soap, so if they show had remained successful who knows what could have happened down the line, and it was definitely a last minute decision to attempt to raise ratings, but I believe them that the intention was that Christopher would be dead. I personally never understood the criticism that Metcalf got here. I thought his character wasn't always written right but I never faulted him for that. As others have noted, Christopher as the "bad" cousin made a lot more sense from an in-story perspective, but they not only avoided that they tried to keep driving the point home that he was a goody two shoes, and it just ended up making him look boring (or smug, at times). By comparison Josh got to show a lot more emotional range.</blockquote>