JJ loves the idea of an arc. He's completely unprepared to deal with the consequences of having an arc. You've got to walk it and feed it and clean up after it...

Maybe someone could send him to one of those UCLA workshops.

So one watches for the pretty, and the wigs? A coherent story is a bonus?

Okay, ita, SIP spoiler:

David and Katchoo got married in Vegas in this issue. They were drunk and got married. No Way.

Henh. intersting. the screencaps I'd seen of Rick Yune I thought he was fighting Syd and not Nadie. that was unexpected.

AH! There it is... the fight with him. But that wasn't the one I had seen screencapped.

Maria, everything is twisty and ever changing and nothing stable. So it does get confusing. Unless you think pretty things go boom.

eta: xpost

Then why does everyone insist that the show is incredibly hard to follow?

Because it makes no sense. It rushes along, with style and momentum and explosions and the odd lust object here or there, but if you tried to map it, you'd drive Moebius mad.

Okay, I have an issue -- why do they one shot people like Djimoun Hounsou and Rick Yune? It makes no sense. I don't care what the practicality of the situations are. They need to fix that. For me.

Dear JJ:

Please stop killing off all the pretty men. It makes ita sad. Also, if you can make Weiss/Vaughn canon (or Sark/Vaughn/Weiss), we'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Love,
Kat

JJ loves the idea of an arc. He's completely unprepared to deal with the consequences of having an arc. You've got to walk it and feed it and clean up after it...

And this is why the people who are so into Lost who think things map to other things, who are willing to obsess over detail upon detail are most likely in for a sad sad suprise.

pretty things go boom.

That I can handle.

It rushes along, with style and momentum and explosions and the odd lust object here or there, but if you tried to map it, you'd drive Moebius mad.

Damn it all, you people are going to make me watch an episode, aren't you? Just to see if it's as crazy-making as y'all say it is.

grape-nuts:

And this is why the people who are so into Lost who think things map to other things, who are willing to obsess over detail upon detail are most likely in for sad sad suprise.

So JJ is a wolf in Joss' clothing? Just when we think there's a "Little Miss Muffett, counting down 7-3-0" moment, he makes pretty things go boom, thereby devaluing them of significant meaning.

Maria, I don't know. I don't know that there ever WAS significance. In Alias, it works for things to go boom. You know in that universe it works. When they have an arc (like Rimbaldi) it's too ambitious and it deflates quickly.

With Lost I read people speculating about what Watership Downs means or the nature of the monster. And you know what, I'd bet money (and win it) that the writers and possibly JJ had no clue what the monster would be 6 weeks ago, let alone when they wrote the pilot.

JJ writes stuff that is fun for the ride. It pulls you along and it's pretty and it's fun. But honestly, the OC has more of an arc (cause soap opera) than Alias.

JJ's storytelling is like a full on Monet. From far away, it’s OK, but up close, it’s a big old mess.

Without having read any whitefont or seen the new ep yet, my two cents on the Alias topicy:

I imagine the only real 'plan' that JJ has is the Rambalid stuff. I do thing he knows where that is going, but much of everything else, yeah, he's making it up as he goes along. I imagine Season Three (and subsequent) would have been very different if Lena Olin had agreed to return, and he probably only brought in Isabella Rosselini to fill that gap, but I do get the feeling that he knows what he's doing with some of it.

So is the S4 premiere gonna make me change my mind, or squee?