I realize that I am no great loss to the producers, but no, I will never watch this show again.
My sentiments exactly.
Actually, I liked Frobisher killing his family. (But then, I'd've really enjoyed the show if it was just about Frobisher.) At that point, there was no way out - the aliens were unopposed, his own PM had just sold him up the creek (I kept waiting for him to point out that they promised that the children of everyone at the table were safe) and even if by some miracle he did get the kids free, there were tapes of him selling out 10% of the kids and trying to keep his earlier bargain secret. No matter how it went down, the lives those kids had known was over. A bullet was at least fast.
it didn't punish HIM - it punished everyone around him
YES, EXACTLY! And yet we're supposed to feel badly for him, when it was his own series of poor choices that put him into that position in the first place and no attempt to realize how much he was hurting everyone around him all the worse.
So yes, the whole "You're saving the whole world, we love you" bit would have realistically mitigated the awful writing
It would have certainly helped me feel less that I was watching a snuff film. That and knocking out his daughter so she didn't have to watch the death of her son. A cold mercy, but still a mercy. Hell, considering the way Jack slings retcon around, I'm surprised he didn't do that to her and say he'd been one of the kids in a traffic accident.
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Date: 2009-07-21 01:18 am (UTC)My sentiments exactly.
Actually, I liked Frobisher killing his family. (But then, I'd've really enjoyed the show if it was just about Frobisher.) At that point, there was no way out - the aliens were unopposed, his own PM had just sold him up the creek (I kept waiting for him to point out that they promised that the children of everyone at the table were safe) and even if by some miracle he did get the kids free, there were tapes of him selling out 10% of the kids and trying to keep his earlier bargain secret. No matter how it went down, the lives those kids had known was over. A bullet was at least fast.
it didn't punish HIM - it punished everyone around him
YES, EXACTLY! And yet we're supposed to feel badly for him, when it was his own series of poor choices that put him into that position in the first place and no attempt to realize how much he was hurting everyone around him all the worse.
So yes, the whole "You're saving the whole world, we love you" bit would have realistically mitigated the awful writing
It would have certainly helped me feel less that I was watching a snuff film. That and knocking out his daughter so she didn't have to watch the death of her son. A cold mercy, but still a mercy. Hell, considering the way Jack slings retcon around, I'm surprised he didn't do that to her and say he'd been one of the kids in a traffic accident.