tarheel91 on 14 October 2008
| rocketpig said: If you get a rabid enough fanbase, they can tear down every piece of Charlie's Angels and find meaning in it. That doesn't mean that there was intended meaning behind it and even if there was, it doesn't mean that meaning was terribly clever or artistic to begin with. Lost hinges on hiding things from the viewer and revealing plot details as the writers see fit. You may think that's high art but I sure don't. I think it's a rather lazy way of artificially generating intrigue. Nice way to refute my argument by calling it "bullshit", though. I love how people can get so riled up whenever anyone calls anything about their favorite series/game/movie and its artistic integrity into question. Shit, I've admitted several times in this thread that I enjoy the show and have seen every episode multiple times. It's not as if I'm saying it's a piece of shit. Wait, why do I get the feeling that I'm reliving one of my umpteen MGS4 conversations all over again? |
That's exactly what I was going to say. The same things are said about MGS4 as are being said about Lost in this thread. People fail to realize the difference between complexity and depth. Anyone can make a story that's so complex and contrived that you can't even follow it hardly. However, that doesn't make it smart, it just makes it confusing. I'm reading Hamlet right now, and it makes Lost's issues stand out all the more blatantly. I'm not saying it's a bad show; I, like RocketPig, enjoy the show. It's just not as intelligent as some people make it out to be.
