Two things. Firstly I wanted to say there is a
Hurley character discussion posted and it's only had two responses so far. Don't forget to show the big guy some love!
Secondly, I wanted some thoughts from my fellow writers on dealing with so-called politically-charged issues in your writing. Things like portrayal of gender, race, sexuality, etc.
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1) I consider myself a feminist in the sense that I think that there's absolutely no difference between what a woman can do and what a man can do and I hate gender discrimination fiercely. And as elliotsmelliot said, if I were a better one I'd have more problems than I have with Lost, but I just take it as the show it is and just enjoy what I like and try to dismiss the rest (see after 1x20 policy). It could also be that I'm way more bothered with Heroes right now on both racism and women issues if I have to be sincere ( ... )
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How do you feel about writing atheist characters?
They are the only characters I can write on that aspect because being an atheist myself I feel like I can give my two cents on the issue.
Does your own belief system influence how you portray religion or spiritualism in your writing?
Yes because I feel like my atheism could make me portray religion in a negative way and it wouldn't really be fair. I'd just rather not deal with it at all and I carefully avoid it. Which is also one of the reasons for which I feel like I don't exactly get Charlie and, to be honest, the main reason for which I never really warmed up to Eko as a character even if I liked him just fine. And the reason for which the island part on Fire + Water bothered me like television has rarely bothered me, which is why I just try avoid it while writing Lost ( ... )
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That's an interesting comment about Fire & Water. I actually found the religious imagery the most interesting part of that episode.
Do you think the final episode will have the Flying Spaghetti monster besting Jacob and turn the islanders into rollicking pasta-eating pirates!
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You know, maybe Fire + Water could have been interesting, but I found the whole on island Charlie story ridiculous (baby stealing? *rolls eyes*), the whole 'what do you know about baptism' issue pretty implausible and in the end it just felt forced.
Do you think the final episode will have the Flying Spaghetti monster besting Jacob and turn the islanders into rollicking pasta-eating pirates!
If it happened it would make the BEST FINALE EVER IN HISTORY. And I'm sure that Sawyer would be on board as soon as he knew that he was going to get strippers in Heaven!
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Things like phantom-limb syndrome are very intense to write about.Oh, indeed. At certain points I was feeling terrible ( ... )
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