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

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:59:23 -0700, "Dimensional Traveler"
<dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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even if its out of date and doesn't work anymore.


Heh heh.  Well, mine was a past-tense reference to season 3, and yours
is present tense, but I think we're talking about the same idea -- the
need to take a step back and make sure an idea or format is working.