Thursday, March 01, 2007

"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"

i hate to say it, but earlier in this season i was becoming a bit less of a Lost Cult member. The addition of the two new and obnoxious characters, what's-her-name and what's-his-face, in the episode down in the ? Hatch was enough to turn me off from the show permenantly. Thankfully, the writers kept the duo out of the episodes over the past few weeks... Until last night.

i don't know what it is about those two. There characters are artificial and intrusive. It is NOT the fact that they were not featured in earlier episodes. Clearly there were many others who were not featured in earlier episodes, who nevertheless remained far less annoying. Think of Alex's boyfriend: Seemless integration into the plot. Think of that crazy German enforcer lady; coming to supposedly "lay down the law" for the killing of one of the "others." In that case also, there was seemless character integration into the plot.

These two are another thing altogether. They are too talkative. They are also too "up in the mix" of everyone. If they were this intrusive NOW, then why were they not being so intrusive for two seasons prior? It breaks the believeable momentum of the show and reminds us that it is all just acting. Sucks.

Last night the writers tried a better approach at reintegrating them. This time, they shuffled them in and out of a large crown of never-before-seen faces - welcoming back Sawyer and Kate - and it WORKED!



See?



...well, at least for a moment. The two, however, promptly overstepped their bounds when what's-his-face pulled on the purportedly "sexy" shorts of what's-her-name, to keep her from running off without him. This was perhaps the corniest and most obnoxious scene in all three seasons.

Please someone make these two die off quickly, and in a believeable way. If i was an Emperor and Lost was being created exclusively for my viewing pleasure, i would likely have whoever cast these two actors executed in the public square, along with the actors in question for sucking so bad.

Oh, and how was Hurley Bi-racial as a kid?



Come on now...