Why are the women so boring?
Episode 4 of season 6 was Locke-centric and it was great. Episode 3 was Kate-centric and it was boring. After all these years I still don’t feel any sort of connection with Kate. The same is true for many of the other women we have met. Why are the women on Lost so boring and uninteresting compared to the men? Or is it just me who thinks so? Explain to me why I’m wrong.
I thought Claire’s centric episode in season 1 was spine-tingling, with the psychic guy and all..
I was going to mention Claire as an exception but she was so boring on the island so I’ve decided that she is boring as well. But perhaps Evil Claire will change my mind.
I actually find Kate’s episodes exciting. But maybe that’s because I’m a girl. I think really it’s just an opinion. I fing most of them interesting, except Sayids. They bore me the most.
Sarajs, of course I suspected that I found the women boring partly because I’m not a woman myself.
And maybe even more because the creators of the show are not women either…
But I actually found some of the episodes about Sayid interesting, when we learnt about his escapades in Iraque. But we haven’t seen much personal development from him.
That’s my problem with Kate as well. We never really get to know her. She’s just running around and acting like she is in the position to give people advice when she clearly isn’t. Or perhaps it’s only that I can’t identify with a young attractive woman.
Well, allow me to be the first woman to partially agree with you (if I am the first woman that is). The episodes geared towards the male characters seem to be a little more exciting than the episodes geared toward the women. I think it partially has something to do with the writers/producers… let’s just say they’re no Thomas Hardy. Some episodes have shown some insight into the lives of the women on the island.. but it isn’t as compelling as the insight into the lives of men.
It is possible that most of the writers/producers are men and therefore have little insight into the minds of women, etc. (Crude generalization.. I know – but it happens!)
The other possibility – keeping in mind that all the candidates for leadership of the island are men – is that the men will have more important roles than the women.
Im not saying the show is sexist – not at all! I think they’re just working with what they know!
I’m definitely not accusing Lost of being worse than other TV shows in general when it comes to its fairly shallow portraying of women.
But I find it a bit strange that a show that is (or at least was in the beginning) so much about the characters doesn’t portray its female characters in more detail.
Perhaps the men are also better actors? Some of the male actors are definitely more experienced. Or perhaps we just like to see a troubled face on a man more than on a woman, hmm…
i love sawyers troubled face….makes me want to make it all better…