Somehow Ana Lucia is less worthy of redemption because she's the most thoroughly unredeemable of women: a tomboy, and a bitch.
Huh. That's why I like her.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Kate P. - Nov 30, 2005 8:57:42 am PST #369 of 5968
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 30, 2005 9:23:41 am PST #370 of 5968
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm not so fond of the bitch part, particularly since it involves innocent people paying the price for her suspicions and general twitchiness, but strength and tomboyishness are good character traits to me.
DXMachina - Nov 30, 2005 9:24:55 am PST #371 of 5968
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Right. It's not that she's a bitch. It's that she's a totally paranoid bitch.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2005 9:28:46 am PST #372 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It's that she's a totally paranoid bitch.
I think once you have a traitor in your camp who's kidnapping and killing people under your nose, it no longer counts as paranoia.
BartlebyFink - Nov 30, 2005 9:39:55 am PST #373 of 5968
One Hot Burrito!
Yet, even her flashbacks showed her to be a totally paranoid bitch.
Besides, I don't care who you are, you always lose credibility in my book if you are also a murderer. I don't care if the guy shot you and killed your baby.
I'm not a fan of the "He was a bad person, so I needed to kill him" method. Unless, of course, the entire piece is about killing bad men. Like Death Wish.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 9:46:16 am PST #374 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
even her flashbacks showed her to be a totally paranoid bitch
I wonder what a flashback before her shooting would have shown. Unlike being denied an inheritance, I'd imagine it's a pivotal change-of-character potential-rich moment.
Not that it excuses her now, but I'm curious about how created a creature this brittle-shelled bitch is.
I think she's fun, myself. Maybe I wouldn't hang out with her, but I might consider letting her babysit my kids. As long as they were above suspicion.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2005 9:58:35 am PST #375 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I simply have no idea where the descriptor "paranoid" is coming from.
I don't disagree that she's been painted as an unlikeable character, but I just don't see that in her.
Kate P. - Nov 30, 2005 9:59:01 am PST #376 of 5968
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Besides, I don't care who you are, you always lose credibility in my book if you are also a murderer. I don't care if the guy shot you and killed your baby.
I'm not sure what this means. Credibility as a leader? I'm not sure I'd want her leading me around the jungle either (though I bet she'd be a lot better at it than I would be), just as I wouldn't want to be her best friend. But I think she's a compelling character, warts and all. Her bitchiness, her tomboyishness, her need for vengeance, her awful mistakes, her guilt, her pride... that's good TV.
Lee - Nov 30, 2005 10:05:02 am PST #377 of 5968
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What Kate P said.
Is Ana a nice person? No.
Is she an interesting character? Yes.
I care a lot more about the second question than I do about the first.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 30, 2005 10:12:04 am PST #378 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I simply have no idea where the descriptor "paranoid" is coming from.
I'd say she's paranoid only in as much as anybody who's had a run-in with the Others is "paranoid", or, say, the crew in THE THING. Can't say that Kurt Russell handled that situation any better than Ana Lucia has handled this one.