Oh, and by the way, LOST?
May. 5th, 2010 03:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedEat shit and die.
Dear PTB. I understand the series finale is upon us. I expect character deaths left and right as we build up to the climax. I understand why there are major deaths necessary for dramatic tension.
Therefore I am willing to cope with the fact that four of my five favorite surviving characters died in tonight's episode.
I am FINE with that, narratively speaking. I am NOT so fine with the fact that 3 of those beloved characters of mine who died tonight were people of color, and meanwhile a few WHITE characters survived 'against all odds.' Because white people are just that much more blessed by fate, apparently. And that I suspect it's going to boil down in the end to three white guys and a white chick and one token Latino guy because his Spanish skills are useful.
Because it's really all about the white people in the end, isn't it? No matter how many characters we got to know and fell in love with, the only people whose life arcs REALLY matter are Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, and maybe Whitmore, Desmond, Penny, and Claire....and Hurley, when necessary, for comic relief and Spanish translation.
LOST, you were doing so well for a while, telling the stories of people from all over the world who were brought together by an accident that really wasn't an accident...
and after 6 seasons, it turns out it was all about the white people all along.
At least that's my impression of the last episode. I'd love to be wrong, but the time-frame for proving me wrong is very short.
HATE.
Dear PTB. I understand the series finale is upon us. I expect character deaths left and right as we build up to the climax. I understand why there are major deaths necessary for dramatic tension.
Therefore I am willing to cope with the fact that four of my five favorite surviving characters died in tonight's episode.
I am FINE with that, narratively speaking. I am NOT so fine with the fact that 3 of those beloved characters of mine who died tonight were people of color, and meanwhile a few WHITE characters survived 'against all odds.' Because white people are just that much more blessed by fate, apparently. And that I suspect it's going to boil down in the end to three white guys and a white chick and one token Latino guy because his Spanish skills are useful.
Because it's really all about the white people in the end, isn't it? No matter how many characters we got to know and fell in love with, the only people whose life arcs REALLY matter are Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, and maybe Whitmore, Desmond, Penny, and Claire....and Hurley, when necessary, for comic relief and Spanish translation.
LOST, you were doing so well for a while, telling the stories of people from all over the world who were brought together by an accident that really wasn't an accident...
and after 6 seasons, it turns out it was all about the white people all along.
At least that's my impression of the last episode. I'd love to be wrong, but the time-frame for proving me wrong is very short.
HATE.
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Date: 2010-05-06 03:55 am (UTC)The first time he got basically waterboarded to death, the second time he blew himself up. So he got not one but two stereotypical deaths.
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Date: 2010-05-06 05:05 am (UTC)