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[zihuatanejo]

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[darklordmoeser]

I had this problem with Lost in Season 2, actually, when Sawyer and Charlie went all crazy and stole guns and kidnapped babies, for no particular reason. I'm glad I stuck with the show, even if they all ended up being dead, but sometimes its hard to get past those humps. I think the biggest problem is if the show needs some sort of internal conflict, it is hard to keep that pot boiling when the characters should either be a team, or break up and go their own ways. Its like unresolved sexual tension... the writers don't want to resolve the conflict, but the longer they keep it going, the more irritating it gets.
McNulty in The Wire can get like that sometimes, since he's gradually becoming Captain Ahab, but at least we kinda expect that of him.

[darklordmoeser]

I would also say that characters don't have to be *likeable*. They just have to be awesome. I wouldn't go out to a bar with Benjamin Linus, but he never stopped making me laugh with his unexpected murders. Nothing is worse than a character (Jack) sitting around feeling sorry for himself (Jack) for episodes at a time doing nothing interesting (Jack) while feeling sorry for himself, or making bad decisions (Jack).

[zihuatanejo]

Don't forget crying.

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[anonymous]

"I wasn't here yesterday, but the computer was." "I blinked and someone moved it." "The computer is experiencing extreme query-deficit." "Let's kneel and ask God that question." "I admit that a uterus reliably finds things. Do you still have one?"