Re: 4th Season Lost - Ji Yeon - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

> Brian Thorn wrote:
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>>On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:56:06 -0500, "IV III" <43@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>One point of that for messing with our heads and having a
>>>>flashforward and flashback thread running together
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>>>that was cheap television. They really dont know what to do. Lost is
>>>already a dumb tv sci fi sitcom.
>>>
>>>Only first 2 seasons are great. This season is a big joke.
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>>The second season stunk to high heavens. "Let's kill off fan favorites
>>so we can bring in new characters and then... KILL THEM OFF, TOO!"
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>>The second season was okay as it was in progress, but by the end it
>>was clear it was just Network Time Kiler. They needed two or three
>>episodes to establish Ben (and maybe Desmond), the rest of it was an
>>enormous waste of time. (Was there any point to the Ana Lucia, Mr.
>>Eko, or Libby storylines? Any at all?)
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> IMDb has in its trivia section for the show a note that Ana Lucia was
killed 
> off because the fans didn't like her and Libby was killed off at the
same 
> time because the fans did like her so the whole killing off of a
character 
> would have an emotional impact with the viewers.

I don't believe professional writers would kill off characters just 
because fans don't like them.  In the case of Nikki/Paulo, where the 
fans practically rioted, maybe. And that would be a very rare situation.

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>>Season three started out even worse, with the monotonous
>>"Jack/Kate/Sawyer in zoo cages" storyline that seemed like it would
>>never end (they've got a show set in the tropics and filming in
>>Hawaii, so why 5 out of 6 episodes that looked like they were filmed
>>on an old Desilu soundstage?)
>>
>>From that point on, though, "Lost" has totally rocked.
>>
>>Brian
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