lost vs p.c. ( no, not your computer!)

[TooLowBrow]

i just started watching lost, im only about 15 eps in, i love the show but i am angered by one glaring idiosyncrasy, the characters are all too politically correct.<br /><br />for instance<br /><br />- koreans and blacks DO hate each other! in the show they seem to but then it is revealed just as a misunderstanding<br /><br />- iraqi interrogators have killed women without a second thought, in iraq women are not seen as people, a soldier would have killed many unknown innocents, why are we only shown the one time he had saved a woman? if he had tried that even once before he would have been killed!<br /><br />- drug addiction is not just something you like to do, i can see that the island helped charlie recover, but why was he the unwilling drug adict, he never wanted to do drugs, steal... all he wanted was a simple life<br /><br />why wont the writers show a racist korean or black? and why must every iraqi character NOT hate americans, instead trust and love them... why must every drug adict be a guy with the world in his hands, talented yet waiting to be guided?<br /><br />toolowbrow @ YAHOO.com

[zentraed]

i haven't gotten into lost yet, but it's been my experience that if you want characters with depth, try cable or the movies<br />

[TooLowBrow]

i just get why i havent heard this before<br />

[Doctor Manhattan]

<strong>toolowbrow</strong> wrote:<br />i just started watching lost, im only about 15 eps in, i love the show but i am angered by one glaring idiosyncrasy, the characters are all too politically correct.<br /><br />for instance<br /><br />- koreans and blacks DO hate each other! in the show they seem to but then it is revealed just as a misunderstanding<br /><br />- iraqi interrogators have killed women without a second thought, in iraq women are not seen as people, a soldier would have killed many unknown innocents, why are we only shown the one time he had saved a woman? if he had tried that even once before he would have been killed!<br /><p>So you think people who don't know each other and start out on the wrong foot can't get to know each other (because they are stuck on an island) start to understand each other? They are forced into the very different situation that would force a change in normal attitudes toward each other (There's a monster on the island!)</p><p>I thought Sayid was falling in love with that woman, I bet it's hard to kill a woman you love. I bet he has killed other women before.</p>why wont the writers show a racist korean or black? and why must every iraqi character NOT hate americans, instead trust and love them... <p>They did show&nbsp;a black character being racist toward the koreans. But his attitude changed as a result of their situation.&nbsp;There is only one major Iraqi character.&nbsp;Sayid's commanding officer&nbsp;seemed to hate americans (I guess you haven't seen him yet, he's in the second season during on of Sayid's flashbacks) And Sayid only &quot;loved&quot; one of the americans. He doesn't trust all the Lost-aways. He's no longer at war and none of these american's are soldiers/government. I think he understands the difference between American Citizens and the American Miliarty he was at war with.</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Doctor Manhattan on 6-11-06 @ 11:46 AM</span>

[TooLowBrow]

<p>i was only refering to the characters on the island, not the secondary ones. i see sayid falling in love, it rings false, americans are over there now and i dont see them falling in love just because they are forced to be together. even if he had softened in his hatred you would think some sort of a political discussion would take place. </p><p>mentioning they stated out on the wrong foot just shows how dishonest the writers are being, people in real life hate or fear other cultures irrationally, they dont need a motive. also, seeing more episodes, this is an island stocked with people who worked with people who kill, yet everyone who made it too the island was against the killing of innocents and betrayed their commpanions often by turning on and killing them&nbsp; ( i hope that makes sense) i just really dont get why no character was written to piss people off besides in a safe way<br /></p>

[JimBeam]

<p>Yeah but one way to look at it is that not ever American hates every Iraqui and vice versa.</p><p>Even the soldiers for the most part are doing their jobs and its not personal.</p><p>I mean I dont walk down the street and see a quy who appears to be from the Middle east and hate him because we're warring in that part of the world.</p><p>And I'm not even the most racially sensetive person out there.</p>

[suggums]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>toolowbrow</strong> wrote:<br /><p>blahblahblah...<br /> </p><p>mentioning they stated out on the wrong foot just shows how dishonest the writers are being, people <strong>in real life</strong> hate or fear other cultures irrationally, they dont need a motive. blahblahblah...<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>its a tv show.&nbsp; not real life.&nbsp;</p>

[Doctor Manhattan]

<strong>toolowbrow</strong> wrote:<br /><p>mentioning they stated out on the wrong foot just shows how dishonest the writers are being, people in real life hate or fear other cultures irrationally, they dont need a motive. also, seeing more episodes, this is an island stocked with people who worked with people who kill, yet everyone who made it too the island was against the killing of innocents and betrayed their commpanions often by turning on and killing them&nbsp; ( i hope that makes sense) i just really dont get why no character was written to piss people off besides in a safe way </p><p>&nbsp;</p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">Well, Sawyer blamed Sayid for the plane crashing. Soon Sayid got a chance to torture Sawyer.&nbsp;Michael and Jin tried to kill each other (with neither able to understand what the other was saying). They handcuffed Jin&nbsp;to the wreckage of the plane. Michael cut him free with an axe, but not without scaring the hell out of Jin;&nbsp;and he didn't get rid of that handcuff until about 1/3 of the way into the second season.<p>&nbsp;</p></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">How much more shit do you want these people to have done to each other?<p>&nbsp;</p></span> <p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: verdana">When it turns out that these people learn more about each other, wouldn't you expect a change in attitude? I think that happens in real life.</span></p>