>>23029132Serena wasn't completely worthless, in a way her plot was developing with us being unaware of it as she tried out different things to find the one thing she found to be her call which was established as early as episode 7. Between that and her developing as a travel partner and friend for the rest of the group she was an okay character mind you not as good as she is now, but an okay one nevertheless. Whether you find that to be shitty writing or not is up to the eye of the beholder, but she was behind Dawn and May.