Re: Lost: Kill, *****cat, kill!

dgates wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:31:06 -0500, weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Ubiquitous)
> wrote:
>
>> The flashbacks used to reveal a character's personality and the
>> formative experiences that shaped his or her worldview. Sometime last
>> season, though, they became empty, plot-based threads that felt more
>> like bad episodes of "The Outer Limits." (Remember Jack's affair with
>> the creepy tattoo woman who said, "I mark people!" but who otherwise
>> served no purpose?)
>
> Yes, I think that the writers / producers themselves discovered that a
> pointless flashback was actually worse than no flashback at all, but
> felt they had to do it anyway because that was the show's formula.
>
In other words, the show's writers are not good enough to introduce new 
ideas and/or formats.  They are just good enough to follow a pre-set
formula 
even if its out of date and doesn't work anymore.

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