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[laurelin_kit]

The show is really losing me. Har har. Seriously, though. I don't look forward to it as much as I do Veronica Mars, and the characters just don't catch me as much any more.

I'm sick of how this show brings up so many mysteries and then just drops them completely, or when we get partial answers, they're so unsatisfactory that the speculation was better. Mystical smoke? Bullshit. Crazy numbers and a test experiment? Seems like a letdown.

I'm tired of watching the Lostaways make idiotic decisions and not band together. If everyone - and I'm assuming they do by now, or else they're a bunch of maroons - knows about the danger in the jungle, why aren't they doing something for protection? At the end of last season I was waiting for them to make Cavetown-on-Dead-Pool into something of a fortress, or at least have them set up a perimeter fence around the encampments. They're still all acting like they expect to be rescued any day. They keep showing people setting tents up in the montages at the end of each episode, but I don't see any results.

The doctor, who is arguably the most important and irreplacable person on the island, is always the person to rush headlong into danger, and only once in my memory has someone called him on that. The group is falling apart sociologically and none of the actions make sense on a larger scale. The information about the hatch and the crazy numbers wouldn't have been kept under wraps this long. People get curious, and Arzt the Red Herring did say something like, "If you want to keep something a secret, don't tell the fat guy." So Hurley can't have been hiding everything that well.

Sayid is in mourning, yes, but he is underused. Strategically, he should be in the core group of leaders. Kate should not, but there was no reason for Jack to prevent her from going into the jungle that time, unless Jack has expert Strider tracking skills and weapons skills that we haven't learned about. Just because he can handle a weapon doesn't mean he's good at it, and we know Kate is good at it.

I'm fucking sick of Charlie. Yeah, cry cry cry, LotR fans, I used to be one of you, but Charlie has become useless. No one talks to him any more, his story arc has run out, and the only reason he's still there is because of ratings. The producers said at the beginning that they weren't going to kill the hobbit because he brought in too many viewers. His character arc was overcoming drug addiction and helping Claire. He did that. Now his character is just annoying and superfluous. Shannon finished her character arc, I suppose, and died. Boone finished his character arc (he became somewhat useful, and I say this being a hardcore Boone fan, too) and died. Charlie finished his character arc and hangs around annoying people.

The writers seemed to have forgotten all about Claire's memory problems. They've just disappeared. WHOOP, GONE! Claire was held by the Others for God knows how many episodes and they haven't even mentioned it this season, at the time that it should have become a major plot point. It's just been dropped. No one is trying to get her to remember what it was like, where she went. Not even when they were worried about Walt. They have someone right in their camp who's been abducted by the Others and it's not even brought up.

These inconsistencies are making me crazy. I don't know.

I feel like my rant power has been exhausted now. Does anyone else have any other thoughts? I'd love to have more of a discussion.

Comments

[awesomesquared.livejournal.com]

All I gotta say is, all of your ranting about Charlie is put to rest next episode. It's a charlie-centric episode, and due to some spoilers I read, it is a DOOZY.

I actually think they're answering a lot more questions this year than asking more of them. It's like heroin. I want it all the time.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I don't even care about spoilers. Try blackout text or something so I have to highlight it to read it. Tell me. Tell meeeee.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I honestly have nothing to say except OMG PEOPLE USE MY ICONS!!!!!111!

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I love that icon. I've been waiting for ages to get to use it because it's just the perfect face and perfect text.

And what font did you use on this one? I love it!

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I found it over here and I think I use it wayy too much on text icons. But it's just perfect.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Okay, I lied about the having nothing to say part. [g]

I haven't gotten frustrated with the show yet, but I totally agree on the not using Sayid part. Come on. If I was trooping off through the jungle, I wouldn't just take the hunter. No, I'd be looking for the trained soldier and yes, even the cop. That part is grating. I mean, much as I adore Sawyer, boy had no business going along, even if he did or didn't want revenge. I mean, really.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

The show is now performing auto-fellatio on it's own mythology, and it needs to stop.

Exactly. It's expecting us to keep adoring the Lost of last year and they aren't making the effort to keep up.

[queen-kiwi.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I still like it, I'm still willing to follow it through, hoping it'll come together in the end--but I have insane, foolish faith in these kinds of shows, even after they fall apart. I'm not really reasonable and logical about a lot of the things I like. :)

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I know. I won't be giving up on it, but I'm liking Veronica Mars more than Lost right now. So that's getting precedence, unless Lost gets back to the best it ever was next episode.

[queen-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, Veronica Mars is pretty damn cool. ;)

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? My keyword for this icon is "Veronica wins at life." She is definitely pretty damn cool. ;)

But I'm not going all crazy Veronica Mars pusher fan.

[iammeinuk.livejournal.com]

Alright, so you knew I eventually had to get in on the Lost discussion. :) I thought a lot about what you said, and yeah, most of it's rather true... I just have too much invested in the damn show to not watch it.

Charlie is annoying me as well - it does seem like they don't have anything new for him to do (they wrapped up the drug problem VERY early in Season 1) and now they're just pushing him back towards it, which is frustrating. I'm predicting nothing's going to happen between him and Claire until next season (watch, this week's episode's TOTALLY going to prove me wrong). Charlie's jealousy is really what gets me though. It's like he's a different person than Season 1 Charlie.

Ironic that they've forgotten the whole "Convienent Amnesia" thing, right? I personally am DYING for another Claire flashback. Her episode from Season 1 is still in the Top 3 Favorite Episodes for me.

Jack is pissing me off. And I miss soldier Sayid. The whole Fabio Sayid was bothering me a bit. Michael's been a bit inconsistent in his Insane Dad act.

You hit the nail on the head with the discord... what with the Hatch and the Tailies, our Lostaways are not working together anymore, and it's very unfortunate that that has been pushed to the side to answer the "bigger" questions. But, perhaps with an "army" in the future, we have something to look forward to?

I dunno. They're juggling A LOT. There are a lot of inconsistencies; you're right, but for some reason, I'm letting them slide by me. I'm one of those people who will follow the stupid thing to its grave. ;)

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely can't drop it completely. I mean, it's fuckin' Lost! They did Walkabout, for God's sake! But it's not on my high-priority list any more.

I think Grant got it right with his comment about them performing auto-fellatio on their own mythos. They keep congratulating themselves on setting up such a great mystery, but they're forgetting to address the follow-through and make it live up to the suspense.

Seriously, I used to love Charlie. Now? If he dies, I seriously will not give a shit. And that's bad for the show. They haven't even given me a decent reason why I now hate a character I used to adore.

They need to stop winning a scrillion awards and have to work for their recognition again, or they're going to tank faster than Tara Reid.