PKTrekGirl, I think that since the sub blow-up most viewers have felt the same way as you about Locke. But I feel like we as the audience have more insight to what's going on with him than he does. When he first got to the island he was so elated at his new circumstances, it became a very spiritual thing and although people on the island thought he was weird, he wasn't a jerk to anyone. In about the 3rd season he started to lose his way spiritually...felt like maybe he was wrong about the island, maybe he wasn't following the right path like he believed, and basically he was just lost. This impaired his judgement and caused him to do a lot of things that he thought were right but really weren't. He lost focus. So while I never hated his character, I was irritated with many of the choices he was making. I think a lot of people probably felt a similar way.
Kate is so annoying to me, always has been from the beginning. I think most people love Sayid and Desmond. A lot of people here love Juliet, but I cannot stand her. She is my least favorite character, by far. I think the actress is really awful. She has one facial expression, one monotone voice level, ugh, just can't stand watching her.
Jack is an interesting one. At first, everyone liked him. Then around the second and third seasons he became more annoying and people liked him a lot less. At the end of season 3 we started to like him more again, though he probably wasn't anyone's favorite character.
I've tried to keep out anything in season 4 and beyond, so once you get caught up you should start a thread about this subject to see where things lie then.
Thanks for responding to my post,
Spot's Meow!
It made me feel a bit less off-base than I did before you posted. I pretty much agree with everything you said.
I mean, I don't really
dislike Locke as it's obvious that he is an important key to the island (or, at least he is midway through season 4, which is where I am ATM). But yeah - even though in some ways Locke was actually right, I found myself 'siding' with Jack, just because of
the way Locke did things with those unilateral decisions - like killing Naomi, for example. Or blowing up the sub. You don't want off the island? Fine. Go on your way and don't leave. But don't cut off the possibility for everyone else. Because at the time he did those things, he had no real way of knowing whether they were even right or wrong for
himself, let alone everyone else.
Because yeah - he was even questioning
himself alot at the time. So why do things that cut off possibilities completely?
I liked Kate okay at the beginning. She was never my favorite character or anything, but I liked her during season 1 when they were revealing some of her flashbacks. I thought she would turn out to be alot more interesting than she ended up being. But in the end, she really
was just a criminal.
Which was not interesting at all.
And yeah, it would be hard not to like Sayid and Desmond. They are probably my two favorite characters - probably for the same reasons as everyone else would post: count on Covert Ops Sayid to watch their backs, ever-vigilent and 'uniquely talented' as he is. And Desmond....well, the guy would have no luck at all if it wasn't for bad luck, but he's such a nice guy that it's hard not to root for him.
But I like Sawyer alot (especially as time went on and he got a bit less predatory toward the other survivors) - he's got spunk and adds some good comic relief to the show as well (definitly, Josh Holloway has the best lines on the show - by FAR!
). And being from the south, I was happy to see them writing a southern bad-ass character as a
reasonably intelligent bad-ass character, rather than as just a dumb hillbilly redneck. They did some things with him (like, all the reading he does, for example) that made you believe there are alot more 'layers' to him than 'angry con-man'.
And Juliet? Well, I thought she could have been alot more forthcoming with Jack and alot nicer to Kate and Sawyer during their captivity in season 3. But overall, I like her. Especially once she was more firmly entrenched with the survivors - from the end of season 3 onward.
I'm actually fairly sympathetic toward Jack. He definitely lets his temper and/or his personal control issues get the better of him sometimes. But at the end of the day, he is a pretty good leader and his heart is in the right place most of the time. He has certainly made his share of mistakes and he does have some blind spots. But then, he didn't really ASK for the job of leader in such a trying situation. It got thrust upon him because he was the only one who was willing, at first, to stand up to guys like Sawyer when Sawyer was being a genuine ass. Gotta admire the guy for that, anyway.
Anyway, thanks for chatting with me - I'm behind, so it's hard to find people to chat with about LOST.
