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

dgates wrote:
> 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 pre-set formula even if its out of date and doesn't work anymore.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.

So not only are the writers no good, but after a year of this the 
_producers_ can't seem to realize it and get new ones!  Now _that's_ an
even 
bigger problem.

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