Lost bitching, part the two
This actually is not about the show so much anymore, but about the reactions of people who watch the show. I keep complaining about fake-nice-guy-Jack, though they’re pushing the nice a lot less. I also complain about the lack of agency of the female characters. My cousin, who I brought up in the last post so I could make this point, but decided to put it into a different post without editing the beginning of the last one, had much the same reactions. Go cousin! Given the stupid nasty cracks you made about your women’s studies course (though really, I made just as many about mine, only that’s because the course I took was full of idiots and the prof didn’t run the course so much as let them all talk, idiotically) — anyways, I was sort of pleased to see that my cousin noted and was annoyed by the same anti-womanness in the show that I am.
A friend of mine also watches the show, and likes it way, way more than I do. (I took to watching it a day or two later, just to annoy him. I am such a super awesome friend.) He does not concede that Jack is a jerk. (Incidentally, although I also hate Jack, it’s not his jerkitude that annoys me, since I am a fan of Sawyer.) And he doesn’t seem to be annoyed by the new eye-candy-ness of Kate, nor will he accept that the show is becoming more anti-woman. (House, on the other hand, is getting marginally better.) I think he just waits for these sorts of rants to stop so we can discuss the show again. But you know, this *is* discussing the show. Another problem we have: I like complaining, and he does not.
I don’t want to say too much, because I don’t like blogging about friends too much. It feels inappropriate.
It’s almost more enjoyable to see how other people respond to these issues in and about the show than to watch it. Except for the scenery.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Oh, I totally hate most of the characters on Lost*. Sawyer’s all right though. Hugo and Sun are about the only other characters I actually like.
My beef is with the plotting. The writers either a) are not very intelligent or b) never anticipated a second season. I loathe the way they retroactively try to insert meaning and make connections that never were there before with new flashbacks. The stories are not self-consistent. They like dropping tantalizing hints to the mysteries of the island, but they drop so many without resolving any that I both cease to remember them and cease to care. I think I might be just about done watching Lost. We shall see.
*I still haven’t got around to watching the final two episodes. They’re taped, but my enthusiasm has waned.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I don’t remember the second-to-last, but I’d recommend watching the last one. They answer one question: why did the plane crash? And another: what happens when the button isn’t pushed? Which is nice.
I like Hugo and Sun, I still like Jin, and I like Sawyer and Sayid. I liked Shannon, too. Oh, and I lovelovelove Henry Gale. He’s so incredibly awesomely creepy.
The plotting is a little seat-of-the-pants, clearly. They’ve done somewhat better this season than last, but I can only follow all the threads by reading TWoP and having them pointed out to me. But the set is so beautiful I will keep watching it, at least for the beginning of the next season. But they better plan on wrapping things up soon, because it will take them 2 full seasons to answer half the questions they’ve brought up.
June 1st, 2006 at 1:14 am
I stopped reading TWOP when I was watching regularly because the recaps tended to be to, ahhh, recappish and fannish, and not snarky enough for my taste. When I watch less regularly and just want a straight recap, I don’t have time to read a dozen pages!
Jin is good, and Daniel Dae Kim rocks. However, I don’t think he gets enough screen time to develop the English-free character. Love his and Sun’s flashback eps though.
I love Veronica Mars for the very reason that they wrap things up each season (or at least they make you think they did).