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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1850835" data-attributes="member: 151">There was no attempt to mislead in any way with Charley's story.  It was very straightforward.   And I don't think I'm splitting hairs, here.  Kate's secret was revealed before her flashbacks even began.  We don't know what she did, but we got her background pretty quickly.  There was no attempt to mislead during her flashback episode.  The revelation predated her history.  Sun and Jin didn't really have a shocker, IMHO.  The fact that Sun speaks English wasn't related to their flashback, so it wasn't really a 'twist' in my eyes...at least not in the way that you see it as one, anyhow.  I can see your point on Jack's story, but I thought they were very effective in keeping you guessing (and setting up some interesting possiblities for the future, depending on how you read it).  Locke's twist was the most blatant, to be sure, and I really enjoyed it.  Sawyer was the number two...but there was no misrepresentation in the flashback, but in the backstory.  The flashback happened just as we saw (and the consequences of it are probably why Sawyer fled the country).  The twist there was that the letter he had was written by him twenty years ago...and he eventually became what he despised.  I agree though, that if they overuse the O'Henry stuff too much, it will get old.  But I don't think we'll see too much more of it, from this point on.  We've met most of the characters, and I think we're just going to build on that and start exploring the island more.  However, I do expect some sort of twist for Boone and his sister (I'm hoping Sayid's story is more like Charley's).   If this was No Exit, it wouldn't be watchable. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  The whole point of No Exit is that Hell is being trapped in a room with your friends, for eternity.    I don't think that this is the focus of the show, at all.  I think the general theme is (suprise!) being Lost, and trying to find yourself.  All of the characters are damaged and adrift when the show begins...but as time passes, they are healing and growing.  Some, like Charley and Locke, have already moved ahead.  Some, like Jack and Kate, have learned but are not ready, yet.  (When the student is ready, the master shall appear).  Some, like Sawyer, are too badly damaged to be repaired yet, if ever.    I personally don't care if they take their time to reveal the secrets of the island...as long as they consistently move forward when they do.  Self-contradictory 'x-filesish' claptrap would irritate me.  I don't see the writing as cheap parlor tricks, any more than I did for, say, Twilight Zone (the original, that is).</blockquote>

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