Re: 4th Season Lost - Cabin Fever - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

khalleron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On May 9, 10:02 pm, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Jim Gysin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 09 May 2008 12:24:09 -0500, pv+use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (PV) wrote:
>>
>>>> "broug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <broug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>>>> not sure what is going on with claire, because even if christian
>>>>> explained what was going on and that aaron would be safe no mom
>>>>> who loves her kid is going to be calm with someone else in charge
>>>>> of kid.
>>
>>>> There was something off in Claire's manner, that made me think that
>>>> this was the real her, and she's been playing a role up until now.
>>>> *
>>
>>> I just *really* have doubts that they would play games with her
>>> character and her character's development for 3+ seasons like that.
>>> I'm sticking with either (a) she's drugged (and she does seem to be
>>> acting similarly to the way she acted after her kidnapping and
>>> drugging by Ethan) or (b) "she" is an island manifestation in this
>>> scene, and "her" role is to help convince Locke of a particular
>>> course of action.
>>
>>> For me, it just comes down to the fact that I can believe that the
>>> writers would mislead us for an episode or so (especially if they're
>>> misleading us by encouraging us to make false assumptions), but I
>>> just can't believe that they'd mislead us so blatantly for 3+
>>> seasons.
>>
>> That would be assuming that they have anything that detailed planned
>> out more than a few episodes in advance. An assumption I think gives
>> them too much credit and don't believe they have done so.
>>
>
> You know, I, for one, an sick and tired of having people say this.
> The producers have said over and over again that they DO have a plan,
> have had one since the beginning, are overjoyed that ABC let them set
> an end date so that they can carry out their plan.  Why do people
> persist in calling them liars?
>
> I don't call anyone a liar unless I have evidence that they've lied.
> I would suggest that you do the same.

Well, to start off they _have_ lied to us in the past.  But I'm not
actually 
accusing them of lieing in this case.  I'm sure they have some kind of 
general plan, a broad strokes idea of where they want the story to go. 
But 
there is no way they have specific scenes planned out in that kind of
detail 
years in advance.  You simply can't do that in television.  And I'm also 
absolutely certain that their plan for the show/story has _changed_ over
the 
years (and will continue to do so for the next two years).  For that
matter 
we know it has simply because they have admitted in interviews that Ben
was 
not part of the original story.  They changed things to accomodate keeping

the actor because they liked how he played Ben.  Likewise they have
dropped 
characters because of audience reaction and actors wanting out.  That's 
simply a fact of television production.

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