So, a while back, a TV writer I like, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, was doing a Q&A, and I asked him what writing lessons you could take away from Andor. His answer was something along the lines of, “The writers on Andor are very good at making archetypes personal, and the personal archetypal”.
And that made me realize what was bothering me about King. His characters are nothing but archetypes. So not only does he SHOW them doing archetypal things, his characters are mostly SAYING things like “I must do this archetypal thing because I am an archetype, that’s who I am.” His Wonder Woman is so much an archetype that she doesn’t seem to be a person with agency.