[NewChief]

Here's the deal:

There are too many characters and plots to truly focus on the development of all of them while still moving things forward in the context of a television show. This is the fault of the source material and attempting to adapt it to the screen, not of the show. Silock's criticisms are valid in some ways, but invalid in that he's criticizing something beyond the control of the creators of the show.

That being said, the creators of the show have done a damned fine job of adapting the source material.