Talk:Run, Ali, Run/@comment-188.120.187.136-20140715185910/@comment-71.178.135.26-20140715194848

Agreed. She used to direct good episodes (although to be fair she gave herself the episodes that would have been great anyway like the finales). Now she just stretches material, contradicts plots and evidence (and lets be real, us fans see this, she isn't fooling anyone), and draws out stale relationships. She has taken the show from it's original thriller/mystery and essentially turned it into a soap opera with a bit of mystery on the side.

Seasons 1 and 2 largely made sense. Sure there were a few mysteries we never quite figured out but I was okay with that. The amount of stuff we don't know now is crazy. I would even tolerate the identity of Big A being dragged out until season 7 (still think this is a bad idea though) if Marlene bothered to answer the side questions that seem to come up every episode then discarded and never mentioned again.

Also the mystery premise for season 5A is fairly weak. We get no closer to A. We only find out that a completely random girl is buried in Ali's grave and after 12 episodes we find out who killed her. No closer to A. And to be honest, given that we don't even know who Bethany Young really is, finding her killer isn't really all that interesting. But Marlene must find ways to drag the show out longer.