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Some Stupid Japanese Name
I'm re-watching Lost. There's something about it that didn't bug me much the first time I watched it, and maybe that was because I was watching it either live, or with months inbetween as I waited for the complete seasons to release. But now that I am marathoning through a couple episodes a day, there's an aspect that makes me roll my eyes hard. It's how, as the show goes on, the writers do their damnedest to make every character tie into another outside of "we were on a plane together." Sawyer drank with Jack's father, Jack's father is ______'s father, Desmond saw Charlie playing for scraps, etc etc.
It probably all seemed really clever to the guys in the writing room. But watching it roll out, it comes across as contrived and stupid.
Now multiply the unlikelihood of 40 some odd characters on a plane all having connections to each other by the variable presented by an entire universe.
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