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Originally Posted by Mike F
I don't like it for the reason I said -- for the better part of 5 seasons Lost was about the characters, who were nuanced and multi-faceted, but now it seems like the characters are being minimized or dumbed down into pawns to line up on either side of the good Jacob vs. evil Smokey battle royal.
Yes, Sayid's always been a killer but he has never been evil. He's been willing to kill when necessary, but wantonly knifing the hippie 2nd in command was completely outside anything the character had been capable of before. But because Smokey needs so many on his side, he's turned into a caricature of who Sayid was for 5+ seasons.
"Locke" is less interesting because he's no longer wobbling between faith and doubt -- he's now a one track record whose only source of interest is that he knows a secret.
The rest of the characters just pop in and out, to be used to drive the Jacob vs. Smokey story along. To reiterate, they've stopped being anything but pawns.
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Can't say I agree. There are 10 episodes left in the show. Character arcs are coming to a conclusion, and who's to say there aren't a few more surprises in store for a character like Sayid?
Besides that, why isn't a killer evil? He tortured and killed people. That's something a
bad person does. He struggled for 5 seasons with that good and bad side of himself. Even his alternate reality, where, I feel, it's showing what their lives would be like if Jacob hadn't have come to them, still shows him as a killer. He killed Keamy when he didn't have to. He gave in to Ben and became his hit-man.
Sayid, to me, is probably one of the most evil characters on the show, whether he is conflicted about it or not.
As for Locke, he's dead. The Smoke Monster is an entirely different character altogether; one, at least in my opinion, that is extremely interesting. I still miss the real Locke, but his death and set-up feeling of being "special" makes him one of the most tragic characters I've ever seen on television.
Edit: I do want to add that it is becoming quite clear that they
are a bunch of pawns in the larger game. I haven't particularly minded it yet, though.