Too Cool to Live
Mentioning Lost brings another point to mind.
Mr. Locke is Too Cool to Live.
He is, really. Locke is operating on a wholly different plane than the others. He literally stared down The Beast on that island and it flinched. Now he's some sort of Bohidisattva version of Colonel Kurtz, parsing out nuggets of sage advice while at the same time cracking you on the skull and smearing hallucination-inducing goo into the wound so you can have an "epiphany".
All this means he's due to get snuffed at the worse possible moment.
"Jack! The secret of the island is..." *gurk*
The coolness of a character is directly proportional to his/her likelihood of being aced. This is practically a rule in anime, presumably to let the heretofore underachieving hero finally reach a new level via the trauma of having his mentor/friend/rival get whacked, usually at the peak of their coolness. This isn't as common here since we're dealing with live Hollyweird actors with contracts, agents and lawyers, but if Locke gets any cooler, I foresee the Grim Reaper sharpening his scythe.
Mr. Locke is Too Cool to Live.
He is, really. Locke is operating on a wholly different plane than the others. He literally stared down The Beast on that island and it flinched. Now he's some sort of Bohidisattva version of Colonel Kurtz, parsing out nuggets of sage advice while at the same time cracking you on the skull and smearing hallucination-inducing goo into the wound so you can have an "epiphany".
All this means he's due to get snuffed at the worse possible moment.
"Jack! The secret of the island is..." *gurk*
The coolness of a character is directly proportional to his/her likelihood of being aced. This is practically a rule in anime, presumably to let the heretofore underachieving hero finally reach a new level via the trauma of having his mentor/friend/rival get whacked, usually at the peak of their coolness. This isn't as common here since we're dealing with live Hollyweird actors with contracts, agents and lawyers, but if Locke gets any cooler, I foresee the Grim Reaper sharpening his scythe.
posted by The Doctor at Wednesday, January 26, 2005
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