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Originally Posted by Pudge714
Assani,
I don't think you realize how much stuff goes into the day to day working of an episode. They need to write huge scripts, film the episodes, etc. etc. It's not just like they can sit down and write till their hearts content. I mean they had the challenge of writing this whole show, concluding it, etc without getting cancelled and keeping the show entertaining. This is not nearly as easy a task as writing fan fiction that answers a bunch of questions.
Fair enough. If your argument is "Its simply too hard to write a TV show and expect it to be anywhere near as good as a movie/book" then i can understand that. Then maybe i simply don't like mystery TV shows.
However, I still feel that its completely inexcusable to build characters up as really important, have them only give vague answers, finally give us that characters' flashback, and find out that they weren't all that important. Imo thats simply a cheap writing trick and we should indeed be upset at the writers for that.
I think that the Lost writers should've cut the number of characters in half and done a better job with the ones they kept. They just weren't able to tie it all together the way they did it. The following characters could've been totally eliminated and the show would've been just as good:
Michael
Walt
Paulo
Nikki
Mr. Friendly and almost every one of the Others except for the main ones
Dogen
John Lennon dude
Libby
Mikhail
two chicks in underwater hatch
Boone
Shannon
I also think they were guilty of trying to fit too many major themes into the show....
Faith vs Science
Ben vs Widamore
MIB vs Jacob
Child birth issues
Claire raising Aaron
Time Travel
The Others and the mystery surrounding them
Dharma
Desmond's jumping through time
the Losties getting off the island
the Losties coming back to the island
If they would've trimmed down on a lot of the characters and storylines, then I don't think we'd need to be making these "but TV is really hard to write" type of excuses.