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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 281873" data-attributes="member: 27">As petulant and selfish as he is, Wyatt&#039;s main &quot;offense&quot; in the series is his total lack of character evolution.&nbsp; I cannot think of any other character on a soap I&#039;ve watched that had so little growth.&nbsp; After the first season or so he was stuck in neutral, doing the same scenes over and over.&nbsp; It had to be irritating to the actor, and was of course more irritating for the audience.I can&#039;t get on board with keeping Amanda around, though.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say for sure if the interpretation of the character by the actress was how Tyler Perry wanted her to behave, or if it was the actress&#039;s choices in how Amanda behaved, but the end product (what I saw onscreen) was bizarre and unrealistic.&nbsp; I want to believe they were directing the actress to behave as she did (in my effort to give the actress the benefit of the doubt), but at the time I felt the actress was out of her depth and did not fully grasp how to play schizophrenia, and instead played her as if she was high on drugs.&nbsp; Again, shows like this are a group effort so it can&#039;t simply be the fault of one person...it&#039;s unfortunate that when a character isn&#039;t working, the actor usually gets most of the criticism.&nbsp; On the other hand, if it turned out she was just not handling the part very well and they decided she was not going to improve, killing the character off in such a spectacular fashion could have been their way of making lemonade out of lemons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 281873, member: 27"] As petulant and selfish as he is, Wyatt's main "offense" in the series is his total lack of character evolution. I cannot think of any other character on a soap I've watched that had so little growth. After the first season or so he was stuck in neutral, doing the same scenes over and over. It had to be irritating to the actor, and was of course more irritating for the audience. I can't get on board with keeping Amanda around, though. I can't say for sure if the interpretation of the character by the actress was how Tyler Perry wanted her to behave, or if it was the actress's choices in how Amanda behaved, but the end product (what I saw onscreen) was bizarre and unrealistic. I want to believe they were directing the actress to behave as she did (in my effort to give the actress the benefit of the doubt), but at the time I felt the actress was out of her depth and did not fully grasp how to play schizophrenia, and instead played her as if she was high on drugs. Again, shows like this are a group effort so it can't simply be the fault of one person...it's unfortunate that when a character isn't working, the actor usually gets most of the criticism. On the other hand, if it turned out she was just not handling the part very well and they decided she was not going to improve, killing the character off in such a spectacular fashion could have been their way of making lemonade out of lemons. [/QUOTE]

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