Re: 4th Season Lost - The Other Woman - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

rwgibson13 wrote:
> On Mar 8, 6:20?am, "Neil Harrington" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> tdciago wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> What do any of those
>>>> have to do with anything? Knowing that Annie gave Ben a doll as a
>>>> child enhances your understanding of the situation how, exactly?
>>
>>> The producers have already said that Annie is of "seismic"
>>> im****tance to the story.
>>
>> So how does *that* enhance your understanding of the show?
>>
>> I don't give a flying fargle what "the producers have already said."
>> If it's im****tant or has any relevance to the story, it should be in
>> the show itself as we all see it on TV. Having the producers explain
>> or elaborate on the story outside of the show itself is as bad as it
>> would be for an author to write a book and then spend a lot of time
>> explaining it orally to the readers.
>
> It's im****tant to those who care to think of it as im****tant, not so
> much to those who aren't into the process.  Most of the time, the
> audience isn't privvy to the thoughts of the authors while the book is
> still being written.  LOST is an exception. If you want to keep it
> literary, think of LOST as a serial published in chapters every so
> often, with lots and lots of foreshadowing of things to come.
>
> If you're not into the forshadowing stuff, then you don't have to be
> bothered by it.  The references being tossed around here aren't really
> THAT im****tant in the overall scheme of LOST, unless you just happen
> to be really interested in the character of Ben.
>
>>> The fact that adult Ben is still toting around the doll
>>
>> When was he last seen doing that? I haven't noticed the doll in any
>> recent episode.
>
> We last saw it in "The Man Behind the Curtain."  It was in his pack
> when he headed off to intercept Jack and company last season, so it
> may be physically impossible to show it again unless that pack is
> somewhere around.

I guess I missed that, it being in his pack.

>
>>> she gave him should make it clear that Annie is a big part of his
>>> psyche and his motivation, but of course you will say that's
>>> gobbledegook, too.
>>
>> No, not yet anyway. It may develop into some more gobbledegook but
>> we'll have to wait and see. Fair is fair.
>
> Oh, unless they somehow decide not to show any more Ben flashbacks
> (extremely unlikely), I'd bet a good steak dinner that they'll
> eventually make it relevant to the whole character arc in a way that
> will make sense to your average viewer.  They really need to humanize
> the guy...

Yes, you're probably right that they will.

Neil