This discussion made me realize that it's also partly, I think, because in this race every member of the cast is flying their leg of the race solo. Even if another plane is in sight, they're solo in the cockpit. They have a couple of days on the ground at each city between legs of the race -- they fly London to Paris, take a few days, Paris to the next city, and so on -- and they can interact then. But you don't have the school story situation where so-and-so is always speaking up in class, and so-and-so is running off to sports practice, and these two characters are working on the school play together, and those three are in detention together this week, and so on.
I don't think that's inherently a fault or anything! But it did give Wein a much harder job at giving her secondary characters enough screen time to develop personalities, even lightly sketched ones (I did mostly keep track of them, but in a "right, the, uh, tall Swedish one" way), and I don't think she really fully managed it beyond the core three and a couple of key chaperones.
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Date: 2023-07-07 03:24 am (UTC)I don't think that's inherently a fault or anything! But it did give Wein a much harder job at giving her secondary characters enough screen time to develop personalities, even lightly sketched ones (I did mostly keep track of them, but in a "right, the, uh, tall Swedish one" way), and I don't think she really fully managed it beyond the core three and a couple of key chaperones.