And sometimes a writer is just not very good. Code of Honor was a pile of crap that should have never made it out of the brain, down to the fingertips and onto the IBM Selectric keys. That particular gem was co-written by a one-miss-wonder who never wrote anything else for tv, ever, and Katharyn Powers who probably shouldn't have.Every professional writer knows more than armchair critics about how to do what they are doing.
Good batters strike out and legendary quarterbacks get sacked. That does not make the sports-obsessed couch potatoes shouting at their big screens the athletic equals of the players. Even the third-string players and bench warmers are better at the game than 99.99% of the fans.