Note to screenwriters - you can't detonate a plutonium bomb by hitting it with a rock. Also, unless you are writing a character who is a self-centered dick of stupefying proportions it isn't too likely that character would want to take 5 minutes off to chat about his love life while one of his friends is bleeding out from a gunshot wound. As luck would have it the writers for Lost are writing a self-centered dick of stupefying proportions, so, doctor or not, it's not shocking Jack would do that. But other writers, don't follow that example.
As to the part of the plot we care about - that was cool. So Egyptian mythology? Norse? Was it "the incident" that damaged the statue? Was it a statue of Sobek? Was that Smokey down there with Jacob and Ben? Lots of questions to ponder until the show returns in 2010.
Posted by armand at May 14, 2009 02:12 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Culture"self-centered dick of stupefying proportions". I don't know, that sounds like a pretty accurate description of Dr. Shepard to me.
Posted by: ryan at May 14, 2009 03:23 PM | PERMALINKThat stuff is exactly why I can't watch that show. The little atrophied writer in me cringes everytime they do something that screams: "We'll figure this part out later."
Posted by: moon at May 14, 2009 07:00 PM | PERMALINKSeriously, I can't stand all the people I know that are Team Jack. Seriously? You want that asshole to be the guy who is leading you/taking care of you? Screw that. He's been an ass since day 1 of the show, and I'm still amazed, five years later, that people enjoy that story line.