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

Good read. I have to say that I agree with pretty much everything in there.

Joy has always been a plot device. Even in the original series she was just that. Joy disappeared. People get angry at Nina. Some unexplained yada-yada with Rufus Malpied and then on to the real villains with Zeno (who btw was the better villain yet HoA merged them and mostly used Rufus) and the Society of Anubis. Then POOF Joy is back. Her story was just ignored and not explained at all. It was decided that Patricia should leave Sibuna and the actrice that played Mara wanted to leave the series so Joy achieved both of these things. Mara btw was even more boring in the original and having her being replaced was great. Even if she would've originally been the Chosen One.

HHA does have one stupid plot thing that HoA also suffered from. The "season reset". After one season all the characters forget what they learned and become who they were at the beginning of the previous season. Prime example: Jerome. In HHA Jerome sided with Sibuna quite a few times in the series finale, but then in the beginning of the new season he would've forgotten all about that, he wasn't a part of Sibuna and it would only take a while for him to turn "evil" again.