azdak

I... think I might be hitting the WTF? elements about now. (I have a suspicion from spoilers I have not completely managed to avoid that they get even more WTF in an episode or so).

I am glad to know that they are genre-related because my internal monologue from the writer's room was going something like

FRIEND: Oh, hi, Xi, how's it going?
WRITER: Not so good. Written myself into a bit of a corner to be honest.
F: It can't be that bad. What's happening?
W: Really compelling plot, lots of emotional drama but the whole thing hangs on my hero interacting with his best friend for forty-six episodes without the best friend ever knowing who he is."
F: Best friend's really, really stupid?
W: But he's not...
F: Best friend's really, really shortsighted?
W: He's a general....
F: Some people really change facially between 19 and 30?
W: Oh, come on. Who's going to believe that??

F pulls up a chair. Time passes. Daylight dims, lights come on. Closeup on growing mound of espresso cups, crumpled diet coke cans, discarded sheets of scrap paper

F: GOT IT! Mysterious magical illness for which the only cure includes complete and utter change of appearance!
W: YOU'RE A GENIUS!