User blog comment:Corbierr/Characters as Story Devices (A Deeper Look Into Those Affected By THE PLOT)/@comment-25014978-20140812204902/@comment-25014978-20140812211410

Yeah I think they actually did well with her in the first season of HoA. Fun fact: the German version of HHA cut Joy's character all-together because they found her boring and irrelevant. That says a lot about a character. If I would have to sum up her plot development (and the same can be said about Mick): they dated people. And that's it. For 4 season. Or actually 7 if you like me count by 50-70 EP DVD boxes. They were also unaware to EVERYTHING Sibuna did. Even in the series finale. Making Joy an antagonist to Nina might've actually been a try to make her relevant/give her something to do. Well that backfired.

One more thing on Mara in HoA though. Mara was recognized as being boring in Season 1 which is why they were going to give her the whole Chosen One role and she would've been excited, but then the actrice was already fed up with the part. In HoA they followed the same pattern as in Season 1 (they did with most things), but there was nothing for Mara to do post Season 1, because all of her season 2 plotlines were related to her leaving and beyond that there was... nothing. And since they couldn't borrow any of Noa's plotlines they just did... stuff.

Yeah HHA does have some season reset. The biggest offender is still Jerome though. That one bothered me every time. In season 2 ending he was a Sibuna (they even did the whole cover the eye welcome to the club thing) and then in season 3 they were like NOPE. And then late Season 3 he kinda joined again and then again it was like NOPE. And then he went to Egypt to find stuff because the actor was doing other stuff.

I guess the original series also had quite a bit of flaws. It did however have much more realistic character development and plot, which is why I still love it so much.