Enemy turf

[prog]

Just watched three more Losts at dougo's. I have some problems with elements introduced during season two. I find one particular character deeply unlikable, not in a boo-hiss way but in a STFU way. And tonight I actually managed to find an episode politically repugnant.

The show's done a good job staying apolitical, a small feat in the face of the Gulf Wars being a minor plot element. But I think it crossed a line in an episode that hinged on the assumption that confessions extracted under torture are reliable and true. I watched the episode with my teeth clenched, waiting for any of the characters to speak up and question this assumption, or for some other event that would cast doubt on it. It never came.

I don't know it for a fact, but I fear that a light was shone on the writers' political views, which would be ones I find disgusting and contemptible. Probably I am reading too much into it and it's just particularly ugly TV trope that I've only started noticing more often lately, like everybody tends to lie and you can kick a prone man in the face 20 times and he might get a few bruises but that's it, both of which this show also espouses.

I like a lot of Lost still and I will probably go back to watch more, but this is two strikes against it. At this point, if it loses me, I will write it off not just as having choppy quality but because it is has the taint.

Comments

[daerr.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching for a while, somewhere around there, and kinda just let the episodes accumulate. (There were new BSG episodes at that point and I wasn't feeling motivated to watch more Lost.) IMO, the season does improve after this.

(Also, on the basis of the admittedly silly Lost podcasts, I think I can say that the Lost creators are not on the other side of the fence politically.)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I feel pressured to hurry up and watch the rest of these DVDs coz Season 3 is starting soon and it feels way too much like a deadline. :b