On May 8, 7:44 am, ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 7, 2:04 pm, robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > On May 7, 6:37 am, ejt789...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > So I guess Aaron got a virus because he was not a baby of faith?
> > > This is just a bunch of hand-waving to cover up shoddy writing.
>
> > How is it shoddy writing if a viewer makes certain assumptions that
> > aren't borne out later?
>
> Because its being presented as fact that no one ever gets sick on the
> Island.
One character saying a line of dialogue does not make it fact.
Even more to the point, though: someone is having an appendicitis
attack onscreen during this line! How is it "being presented as fact
that no one ever gets sick" if someone is in the middle of getting
sick?
> None of the other characters say "No, you are wrong, remember
> Aaron got a fever and Shannon got an asthma attack?". If the writers
> feel it im****tant enough to write a line about no one ever getting
> sick and DON'T feel it im****tant to point out that this is not true, I
> attribute to shoddy writing.
Just a guess, but maybe they feel that spelling everything out in such
a banal way would cheapen the show. Most likely Rose is not aware of
the other sicknesses, either that or she is not thinking about them
because it does not compute with what she really desires and needs to
believe about the Island -- that it cured her cancer, and so she is
believing what she needs to believe. And she is only putting together
in her head now what we have already been privy to -- that some people
get sick and stay sick, and others get cured. Her turning point of
cognitive dissonance is Jack's appendicitis.
I do not need her to wear a sandwich board with neon lights that says
"I AM JUST FIGURING OUT THAT SOME PEOPLE DO IN FACT GET SICK, FOR SOME
UNKNOWN REASON, WHILE OTHERS ARE CURED. THIS WORRIES ME BECAUSE MAYBE
I AM SICK AFTER ALL, OR MAYBE MY CURED-NESS WILL GO AWAY." I can
figure that out from context, so it's a waste of show time. It is
called subtext for a reason.
> They don't want us to remember people
> getting sick because they are trying to retcon the Island's powers,
> IMO. This is a minor point, granted, but it just goes into the
> growing pile of retcons and continuity problems.
How are they retconning the Island's powers? In Season 1, some people
got got cured of ailments, and others had uncured ailments. In Season
4, some people are cured of ailments, and others have uncured
ailments. In both cases, the Island's power appears to be selective.
What changed?
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