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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 355367" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>And this is often why head writers prefer to write for his or her creations, the characters they know best since they created them and their back-story.  The veteran characters the writers inherited when they took the job might 'scare' the writer, since their long, storied histories might look somewhat like a mine field to negotiate.  It's not unusual for a newly-hired writer to be criticized for ignoring the veterans and filling the screen with new characters no one really cares about...and this is one reason why.</p></blockquote><p></p>