thoughts on character arcs.

i'm addicted to scandal, it's official. every character is so amazingly well crafted, and it's so interesting to watch each and every one start off so perfect and put together. it's even better to watch them spiral out of control, and to grow. it's this process of spinning apart and slowly recovering into a new being that is so important to storytelling, it's what we crave when we read stories. it's the human news--we want to see change, we want to read about it, even though it's not necessarily something that we ourselves want to do.