LKH Lashouts

C) BE ACTIVE. I've begun to really hate Anita because she never actually does anything. She just sits around and waits for something to happen and then reacts. Then more things happen and she reacts. She never decided to pack a bag and go to Paris to blow up the Council when they were psychically beaming themselves into her house. She never went on some deep spiritual pilgrimage to learn how to control the Ardeur or find some lost temple of monks in Tibet that can tell her what happened to defeat MOAD the first time around. There are a bazillion different things that could have happened instead of staying at home and whining that she has to have more sex with more hot guys noooo. And worse, she's stuck in this cycle of angsting, having someone point out "you always do that, you have so much awesome now!" and she's like "no you're right!" and then does nothing to fix what she was complaining about so she can slide back into complaining again. Case in point of the Ardeur where she's told she has to eat right to keep it in check, but she constantly skips meals or gets unhealthy take-out and then has to go nail someone.

I could ramble on, but then we're just going to get into a list of my personal gripes against the series rather than anything terribly helpful. Except maybe that characters should have their own motivations -- and lives beyond the scope of the protagonist -- "because of reasons!" is very rarely effective.