[finnthehuman]

The scripts aren't good because they're not designed to be good. TV and movies are fleeting bouts of entertainment with little re-use value, cranked out by a system that cares more about quantity than quality. Characters, dialog and plot are the minimum necessary to allow suspension of disbelief. Good storytelling is not important if the option to profit without it exists.

Then there is a segment of the market that specializes in creating higher quality products for demanding consumers, and to command higher paychecks and respect for the actors and production brands involved. Sometimes people who care about fiction manage to sneak in here. But Hollywood has gotten increasingly good at replacing the director-auteur with schmaltzy schlock that still tickles the sensibilities of people who want to believe that hollywood is art.

For example: The problem with Game of Thrones' last few seasons was that they ran out source material from an author who cared about his fiction. TV and film don't know how to tell a story because they're designed not to. Maybe most of the individuals involved do, but the system doesn't. It's so bad that a resource-rich production shit the bed with a head of steam and plot points from a real author. They couldn't even convey "bad person is BAD" without falling back on Nazi imagery. Of course the conclusion was doomed.