Paper Update: Halfway through this new miserable experience
Real quick thoughts before I embark on finishing the paper: Lost missed a golden opportunity for the most poignant end to a show in recent memory. As I watched, I kept thinking "This can't be happening. I bet they'll save Charlie at the end." However, there was a part of me that kept thinking, "After all of this, they have got to go through with it." Imagine if the final scene of that episode wasn't Charlie being held at gunpoint by the Amazonian women in the Looking Glass (seriously, where are the really ugly women? Why couldn't Charlie scream "I'm alive!" only to be intimidated by a bunch of 50 year old bags with assault rifles? That would be much more intimidating) but Charlie flipping the switch and then drowning in a claustrophobic scene reminiscent of the Abyss. As I don't cry, I wouldn't have cried I (although Charlie is one of the best characters), but I would have stared at the screen and said "Noooo waaaaaaaaaaaay" in an awed voice. Then imagine the impact in the next episode when Desmond is seen walking alone towards the group and gives Claire his "greatest hits" note saying, "This is from Charlie." Now THAT would have been killer TV. Besides, you can't use the best action cliche in the world (where the one guy knocks out his buddy to prevent his buddy from stopping him from doing the right thing even though it means certain death) without it resulting in a heroic sacrifice for the good of the group. It's really lame that the only example of this that I can think of off the top of my head is Spock giving Scotty the Vulcan grip in Wrath of Khan so he can fix the Enterprise's warp drive amidst the radiation. I'm sure there are others, please someone come up with a less nerdy example than this!
For all of you Struck employees, did you notice that Charlie was wearing a Struck T-shirt? He was, seriously!
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How about on Armageddon when Bruce Willis rips off the air supply of Ben Affleck and shoves him back into the spaceship. That way Bruce can stay on the asteroid and blow it up before it hits earth and Ben can go back to marry his daugher, Liv. Less nerdy?
Lost sucks. It's all about Heroes.
I noticed the Struck logo on Charlie's shirt too. I noticed that they don't sell that shirt design in their store, so either someone ripped off the logo from Struck, or maybe Struck wasn't the first to use that hammer logo.
Nice one, Josh Bitterman. Next year you'll be saying, "Heroes sucks. It's all about the Sarah Connors Diaries"
You got what you wanted... you just needed to show a li'l patience, Doug. And I'm boycotting Josh's blahg for his mere suggestion that Heroes can even hold a candle to LOST. Anyone who says LOST sucks just plain doesn't get it. So sad...
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