Cora should have been written meaner

I heard that Elizabeth McGovern asked Julian Fellowes to rewrite her character nicer back in season one. That was a mistake because her character is very inconsistent. She’s sweet to Mrs. Hughes when she has her cancer scare but is very unkind to Bates. Of course characters are allowed to be contradictory but Cora never gets her own character arc to explain her contradictions. Instead we’re left with these unexplained tonal shifts and mood swings. I never knew what the show was trying to do with her and I think if they just made her mean à la Ms. O’brian, she would have had a clearer role in the show.