by SmokeyD on Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:59 am
I mentioned all of these on another thread, but I will submit them again...
1) The writing is garbage. TPTB seem to paint themselves into corners and expect ignornance to get them out of it...
2) The story arc's are painfully long, they will present a great idea about something in the last 4 minutes of an episode, but then they try to draw out the suspence for 3-4-5 episodes until they come back to it...
3) The writing is awkward with the dialogue being way out of sync..
4) They wanted this huge LOST tie in (As evident by the several LOST Easter Eggs), but then when a fan of LOST tries to point out that they are not pulling it off... TPTB say "Well, we are not LOST!!! What do you expect!!!")
5) WHO CARES ABOUT ANYONE OF THESE PEOPLE??? I didn't become addicted to LOST until I found a character I was actually concerned about..
6) If you hire actors who don't speak American English, try to hire a better vocal coach to hide their accents...
In a little more detail of my reasons:
- Originally, the FF show creators really... really tried to push a LOST connection/tie in. I offer as proof ot this for three big reasons, 1) A lot of crossover actors from LOST, 2) The show creators own statements in Pod Casts, Online video snippets (FlashCards), and 3) The heavy LOST 'Easter Eggs' in the Pilot.
Retorically, I can respect if TPTB wanted to throw a shout out to LOST, but after the first two or three easter eggs in the Pilot, I have to see a pattern forming.
- The writting has not been either neat or tight. If you are weaving a sci-fi based mystery based around the lives of a group of people.. either the Sci-fi has to be tight (Nothing worse than sloppy Sci-Fi), or the characters have to be developed in such a way that you become invested in them. And so far neither has materialized for me. (IMHO)
- The story arcs are not developed well. TPTB will throw a biggie at us, but then fail to follow up. It took them several episodes to even get back to a reference to 'The Towers', and in the time that elapsed between, the story went all over the map in a seeming non-relevant (almost chaotic) path.
- It feels like TPTB keep painting themselves into a corner with the story, and then all too often resort to Deux Ex Machina to get them out of it. And while I admit that Deux Ex Machina is a valid tool, it detracts from the story significantly when it is used too often...
- TPTB (by way of the Flash Cards) have told us the viewer to look very closely for clues, the problem becomes that we then actually 'look closely' and notice that while we may see what they are trying to show, we also find the 'mistakes', but are expected to over look them.
i am not against Wikipedia, i am against lazy writers who just copy paste info, and worst is from an open source. (think of it as if Mac's new version was a just a linux virtual machine)...
I was looking forward to it because it referenced the lost arg tho 
I don't know, I wanted to like but did not and I don't even know if I'll watch it when it comes back. I'll check out V when it comes back on.
, I was a disappointed with 1.11 mind you, but the second half was a significant improvement.
