If that qualified as great storytelling, then every story ever told would look like this:
"Something happens to a person. As a result, that person feels an emotion and does something. The End, fill in the blanks any way you want."
I'm not saying all stories should reveal everything right away. But there has to be SOMETHING there to work with, some hint of what's happening. Kenny is a huge nothing which I can't be bothered to make up a backstory for, since I know that that backstory will be 100.0% my own invention (not even fanfic but original fiction) and I'm not paying Joss to do his work for him. Again, why should I care about a character about whom I know nothing?
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If that qualified as great storytelling, then every story ever told would look like this:
"Something happens to a person. As a result, that person feels an emotion and does something. The End, fill in the blanks any way you want."
I'm not saying all stories should reveal everything right away. But there has to be SOMETHING there to work with, some hint of what's happening. Kenny is a huge nothing which I can't be bothered to make up a backstory for, since I know that that backstory will be 100.0% my own invention (not even fanfic but original fiction) and I'm not paying Joss to do his work for him. Again, why should I care about a character about whom I know nothing?