I'm not blaming Buffy for Lost shout-outs. I'm blaming the writing that has been o.d.ing on shout-outs to various other projects for most of its run.
The thing with Lost and this reference is that it's more than just a line of similarity. It's a great deal of overlap, from using the bottle to the whole plan to go down a cave into the heart of the island wonder to deal with the 'cork'. All of that has a similarity, and that's on top of all the other references from Watchmen onward.
I'd rather a bit less shout-outing. It sometimes feels like their dangling bright objects in front of us to distract us from the fact that in concrete terms the plot doesn't bear much scrutiny.
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Date: 2010-09-22 04:27 am (UTC)The thing with Lost and this reference is that it's more than just a line of similarity. It's a great deal of overlap, from using the bottle to the whole plan to go down a cave into the heart of
the islandwonder to deal with the 'cork'. All of that has a similarity, and that's on top of all the other references from Watchmen onward.
I'd rather a bit less shout-outing. It sometimes feels like their dangling bright objects in front of us to distract us from the fact that in concrete terms the plot doesn't bear much scrutiny.