Not a terribly important plot point, but jeeze, these guys are dropping like flies lately.
That's two gone this episode added to the three (including Frogurt) that died in The Lie.
When they did a group shot on the beach last episode, there seemed to be very few survivors left... like 10 or so.
Anyone have an idea as to how many are left? Or should be left?
They had four seasons to kill off these apparently unimportant characters, but now it's happening all of a sudden... just feels strange.
It just highlights why I never understood that they bothered to have anyone besides the main characters (and those with speaking roles -- arzt etc) survive the crash in the first place.
I do give the writers points for not giving the latest redshirts names and funerals.
I just feel bad for ones like Artz and Frogurt, they got stressed out and borderline hysterical (let's face it, that'd be most of us in that situation) and then kablam your all exploded or ping there's a flaming arrow in your chest.
The deaths of all the redshirts makes me think that the main characters were the only ones meant to make it to the island and survive. All the rest of the passengers were collateral damage. The island only needs our original losties to stay.
My suspicion, and I believe Darlton have said words to this effect, is that the great mass of redshirts are no longer spectacularly necessary now that they know where they're going and how long they have to finish the story...thus, they can get rid of them and not have to worry about accounting for them any more. Kind of a simple mechanical issue for the writers.
Re: Bye bye Redshirts
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