LOST thread
Mar 25, 2010 14:57:44 GMT -5
Post by Lucky on Mar 25, 2010 14:57:44 GMT -5
I don't know, man... I don't think the Lost writers knowing that the foot was part of a statue and the statue was destroyed by weather/wreckage is really a great sign of foresight. That's what we all assumed back in S2 when we saw the foot. We didn't know who the statue was or what destroyed it, but it wasn't exactly brain surgery to figure out it was an old statue from forgotten times that got wrecked away by time and nature.
Nor is this the sort of thing I gave any shit about even though I suspect when everyone freaks out and accusses me and my ilk of needing all the answers they think its this sort of total mundane and meaningless thing we want. Its not. I mean, its nice to just know what happened and to just know what the statue was. I'd be lying if I said that if those things went totally unresolved I wouldn't wonder. But its pretty minor shit that I think only serves to convince folks like you that they know what they're doing when, really, they could have just been making that up as they went along.
I mean, I don't know if they've really been clearly setting shit up. I'm admittedly cynical on them at this stage and I may well be missing things because of that. Minor shit like S1's Black Rock leading to S6's Richard story don't strike me as foresight and planning... they strike me as writers drawing perfectly simple connections between their stories. And they may well have always known Richard was a slave on the Black Rock from the first moment they introduced him. I don't know and I'm not saying they don't. But from season to season I've never gotten the sense that these writers have a plan and that there's a singular story I'm following. I've never been sucked into it so completely. Well I was, back in the early seasons when much of the show was fairly simple survival with decent characters portrayed by decent actors with over the top soap opera writing. But the story as a whole just feels very disconnected to me in a way that made it impossible for me to marathon the show prior to it returning.
But again, I fully admit I'm jaded at this stage and may be viewing the show harshly because of my complaints of the last season or so. But in fairness to me, many of my complaints about the writers are ones fans have had for a long time and which really only show up over time. They right derivative stories that hammer home the same crap over and over and over, and the great mysteries have always felt less like a secret I just don't know and more like a whole mess of questions that I have no idea if there are answers to.
Nor is this the sort of thing I gave any shit about even though I suspect when everyone freaks out and accusses me and my ilk of needing all the answers they think its this sort of total mundane and meaningless thing we want. Its not. I mean, its nice to just know what happened and to just know what the statue was. I'd be lying if I said that if those things went totally unresolved I wouldn't wonder. But its pretty minor shit that I think only serves to convince folks like you that they know what they're doing when, really, they could have just been making that up as they went along.
I mean, I don't know if they've really been clearly setting shit up. I'm admittedly cynical on them at this stage and I may well be missing things because of that. Minor shit like S1's Black Rock leading to S6's Richard story don't strike me as foresight and planning... they strike me as writers drawing perfectly simple connections between their stories. And they may well have always known Richard was a slave on the Black Rock from the first moment they introduced him. I don't know and I'm not saying they don't. But from season to season I've never gotten the sense that these writers have a plan and that there's a singular story I'm following. I've never been sucked into it so completely. Well I was, back in the early seasons when much of the show was fairly simple survival with decent characters portrayed by decent actors with over the top soap opera writing. But the story as a whole just feels very disconnected to me in a way that made it impossible for me to marathon the show prior to it returning.
But again, I fully admit I'm jaded at this stage and may be viewing the show harshly because of my complaints of the last season or so. But in fairness to me, many of my complaints about the writers are ones fans have had for a long time and which really only show up over time. They right derivative stories that hammer home the same crap over and over and over, and the great mysteries have always felt less like a secret I just don't know and more like a whole mess of questions that I have no idea if there are answers to.