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I got myself cafeinated for the first time in like, six months today. I don't know if it helped me concentrate on my homework, but it DID help me be seriously kind of terrified by this week's episode of LOST.
I call LOST retarded a lot--and I don't take it back, because it totally is and I have come to hate most of the characters--but I think the thing that really keeps me from walking away from the show is Ben. If you think of the main characters, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke & Co., as the heroes of the series, then you're bound to be disapointed because your heroes are 1.5 dimensional morons who are being dragged along by the writers' very visible puppet strings. But if you think of the story as centering on BEN, as everything that happens only being shown because of its eventual relation to HIM, that gives the entire series the sense of purpose I think it's been missing. I don't trust the writers. I think they've been BSing their plots and characters for most of the duration. The idea of a main character who doesn't show up until two years into a show is bizarre and genius and probably near impossible to do well if that was what you intended to do, which they weren't, and I don't think they know that's what they've done now. I do trust and am somewhat in awe of Michael Emerson for twisting stupid things into brilliant things, and that's really all I have to say.
I call LOST retarded a lot--and I don't take it back, because it totally is and I have come to hate most of the characters--but I think the thing that really keeps me from walking away from the show is Ben. If you think of the main characters, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke & Co., as the heroes of the series, then you're bound to be disapointed because your heroes are 1.5 dimensional morons who are being dragged along by the writers' very visible puppet strings. But if you think of the story as centering on BEN, as everything that happens only being shown because of its eventual relation to HIM, that gives the entire series the sense of purpose I think it's been missing. I don't trust the writers. I think they've been BSing their plots and characters for most of the duration. The idea of a main character who doesn't show up until two years into a show is bizarre and genius and probably near impossible to do well if that was what you intended to do, which they weren't, and I don't think they know that's what they've done now. I do trust and am somewhat in awe of Michael Emerson for twisting stupid things into brilliant things, and that's really all I have to say.