ITT: Wasted potential
>MC spends 16 years in another dimension
>MC learns how to take down one of the most powerful entities in the universe
>MC spends so much time chasing after a pair of scissors, he forgets the reason he was there in the first place
>MC faces the moral dilemma of choosing between his life back home and the life he crafted for himself
>MC suddenly find himself back in his 14 year old body
>MC's home is now foreign to him, can't even remember his own password
>MC goes back to status quo by the next episode
>Plot point is only brought back up so that showrunners can kill off any remaining shreds of potential
Any other examples of shows abandoning interesting plot developments?
>MC spends 16 years in another dimension
>MC learns how to take down one of the most powerful entities in the universe
>MC spends so much time chasing after a pair of scissors, he forgets the reason he was there in the first place
>MC faces the moral dilemma of choosing between his life back home and the life he crafted for himself
>MC suddenly find himself back in his 14 year old body
>MC's home is now foreign to him, can't even remember his own password
>MC goes back to status quo by the next episode
>Plot point is only brought back up so that showrunners can kill off any remaining shreds of potential
Any other examples of shows abandoning interesting plot developments?
