Lost bitching, part the one
I had a long chat with my cousin (who is 18) last week, about Lost. Now, I really liked Lost at first, and I haven’t entirely given up on it — I was close, at points this season, but the finale worked for me, and I am intrigued again. Spoilers for the entire season 2 of Lost.
But! Where the hell are all the women? We killed off Shannon this season — ok, we replaced her with Ana Lucia and Libby! Who we . . . killed off too. So, of the most important characters, we have — all men! Jack, Locke, Sawyer, maybe Eko, maybe Sayid, maybe Henry Gale. Kate, you wonder? Kate has been made into a meaningless Cute Girl. She was the one who could hunt and track and . . . get caught in a stupid trap that Rousseau left, get caught by the Others, get told to stay behind and do this and that. Now, I believe that Jack would tell her what to do, but first season, she would just have ignored him, and it would not have ended in Doom!
Of the more minor main cast, sure, we have Kate and Sun. Claire and Rose and Rousseau? Forget it.
I could talk about the remarkable consistency that Michael has shown, as a character, especially when we compare him to, for example, Locke. Or the fun job of “finding the relationships between the main cast and secondary characters” — which I suck at and only find out about when I read recaps. I could talk about how very much I want to go back to Hawaii it is so beautiful.
But instead, I will continue to complain about the pointless non-women in this show. I appreciate that Sun insisted on going with Sayid and Jin. And I understand that in an ensemble show with eleventy zillion characters and twelvy zillion zillion story lines happening, you can’t focus on them all at once. But you can, say, note that all of your characters that do anything are guys, and that all of your important storylines are about guys, and maybe try to balance that out a bit. (This may be what Desmond’s weird ex-girlfriend is trying to do. Who the hell knows.) Guess we’ll see next season, especially as we might have killed off half the men and lost Michael. Or maybe not.