It‘s not my place to say when Bellamy shows up again, but I think it would have been proper to give the fans an official heads up ahead of the season that his absence would be so prolonged, rather than pretend like we are silly for asking about him week after week. https://twitter.com/astralkru/status/1290333103047577601">https://twitter.com/astralkru...

No explanation necessary. Just the courtesy of a “hey, due to unforeseen circumstances, a main character of a story we designed for you to get emotionally invested in will be absent for X episodes, and we know that will be jarring, but we hope you enjoy the rest of the story.”

I will always believe that fan passion and emotional engagement is a mark of a successful story, not a hindrance to its success.
If external factors impact your story in such a significant way, just do the fans the courtesy of letting them know. Not the why, just the how.

And the same goes for the apparent last minute script rewrites. Just be transparent about it from the outset rather than let it be revealed like a whisper game. This fanbase is a lot of things, but we’re all ultimately on the show’s team. That’s why we’re still playing.

I’m just annoyed that I have to be annoyed by this. We could have just been told ahead of time and I could have adjusted my expectations and celebrated all the great Indra content in peace.