I should have been more specific, I did mean to refer to the Afterlife Inhumans as the stereotyped ones. My question is why the "villainous Inhumans" were portrayed as such to begin with (I assume we're both talking about Jiaying and Gordon, right?) Warning: this is long. Sorry.

My problem with the Inhumans arc was twofold. Firstly, I thought it was a waste to have any of the Inhumans, let alone the leadership, turning evil. I thought the Afterlife Inhumans could have been used to flesh out the aspects of Civil War the movies couldn't explore, i.e how the Act affects powered people BESIDES the Avengers. CACW largely discussed Civil War in terms of whether it was right to give the government control and/or be able to "rein in" superheroes, but neglected other aspects (the secret identities, the fact that ALL powered individuals are to be registered and has to meet certain govt criteria before they've ever allowed to utilize those powers). The Inhumans were, I thought, an obvious way to explore these issues (in fact, the Superhuman Registration Act of the comics seems to be exactly what Gonzales suggests to Jiaying, when he requests that they allow all their inhabitants to be indexed). I thought there were obvious questions about freedom and human rights (the same question Cap essentially brings up in CACW) involved in indexing the Afterlife Inhumans, only at an even greater level, because unlike the Avengers, they're secretive and secluded from most of humanity, and therefore there is virtually zero contact between their use of powers and the outside world, and while SHIELD obviously has good reasons for wanting to index the Inhumans (a mere precaution in case any of them turn deadly), it's also unfair to the Inhumans too, because for decades now they have lived life untouched and, barring one unfortunate exception (Bahrain) have never injured other humans (I'm not counting Jiaying's kills in this, because I take issue with Jiaying's characterization as a villain and had she not been one, her body count would likely have been contained within Afterlife and the Inhumans), so why do all of them have to give up their "secrecy" (i.e let their identities be known by SHIELD) and be subjected to the indexing and monitoring of SHIELD? Furthermore, Inhumans are in the unique position of being born with the ability to have powers, but not actually being born with powers (the SRA covers all individuals with powers, period), therefore to what extent should the Inhumans be indexed? Are ALL Inhumans indexed, regardless of whether they've undergone the transformation? Or do they have to routinely report back to SHIELD every time an Inhuman transforms? I had wanted to see a more nuanced take between the differing views of Civil War on a smaller scale than the movies portrayed (there's an argument to be made that Civil War dealt more specifically with how the government used the Avengers, versus the legality of the indexing itself). The show, however, chose to go the route of completely validating SHIELD's stance; by portraying Jiaying as the stereotypical villain that starts an all-out war on SHIELD and aims to turn or kill humanity, in a way it automatically "proves" that SHIELD was right to be wary, without truly considering the deeper conflict, or the nuance to the Inhuman side, and this wasted the potential the Afterlife Inhumans had.

Secondly, I didn't like the decision because of what it did with Daisy's character. I actually did watch S3, and it seems to support the hypothesis I initially formed after watching S2, which is that the writers don't WANT Daisy to have character development. They're looking for character regression. The writers, I think, believe that the way to build Daisy up as a hero is to rip her apart with traumas, first with her mother turning psychotic evil (which denies her a chance to choose the family she wants, SHIELD vs Inhumans, and simply drives her back into SHIELD's arms, resulting in essentially over-dependence on SHIELD, and later Hive for the connection/support she's been seeking her entire life, as an orphan) and then with Lincoln's death. IIRC, an interview with Jed and Melissa had them explaining that Daisy would have liked to sacrifice her life, as an easy way out, by performing a heroic act to wipe away the misdeeds she did under Hive's control (this backs the theory that Daisy is being regressed as a character - she instinctively tries to hide/escape from her problems, and for all of S1 Skye's flaws, she never did that. She always faced her fears head on, be it having Coulson tell her what he found out about her parents, or taking the initiative to try and trick Ward into getting arrested, etc) and that because Lincoln performs this act instead of her, Daisy will spend the rest of her life doing little things to make up for this. More fundamentally, I don't want to watch a show that thinks the only way to build up its heroine is through destruction; to repeatedly traumatize her beyond belief without any real attempt to build her back up (even the S2 finale - after Daisy is betrayed by her mother, WHY does she take back her name? Her family is a bloody wreck, psychotic mother and kind of crazy dad who murders psychotic mother, and she's likely suffering trauma from the way her mother tried to kill her in like the very same episode so why is she taking up the name they gave her? It seems to imply growth/an acceptance of "who she is" but never actually shows that to us).

I would even argue that the show dropped the ball a little in terms of its characterization for Daisy/Lincoln/Hive. The fundamental drive to be accepted, to seek a connection is a common thread for all three of them; it's what fuels Daisy to dedicate herself to SHIELD, it's why Lincoln resorts to drinking and other coping mechanisms (because he can't fully accept his nature and powers), and most importantly, it's what drives Hive, as a literal connector between Inhumans, but IMO besides that last (fairly brilliant) scene with the two Inhumans dying, by and large, AoS doesn't satisfyingly explore this massive parallel it sets up between the three key Inhumans of S3.