Sawyer is one of the main reasons I've kept watching as long as I have been, even though I've been getting more and more annoyed with the show itself, Sayid being another reason. :-)
but not the difference in how those deaths are treated from those of the male characters
Yeah, I didn't pick up on that for a while and then once I did I tried to ignore it, because I reminded myself that I'm not always as perfect as I should be with gender issues either, they're a product of their society and yadda yadda yadda, but it went from being 'the kind of stuff you sometimes get with most any show' to 'oh come on, not again'.
Interesting that the women all seem to get shot, too.
And they always die from it-- Locke and Sawyer both got shot and recovered (not that I'm saying they shouldn't have, especially Sawyer, because then I would've stopped watching a lot earlier. I'm shallow that way. Hee) but I really would've liked to see at least one of the women get an episode equivalent to Sawyer's-- centered on her as she tried to be tough and make jokes through a hell of a lot of pain and one or more of the guys trying to nurse her back to health; or Locke's-- people thinking she's gone and then, surprise! The only one I can think of who had even close to that was Naomi, and then guess what happened to her.
And even if they do pull a surprise comeback with Danielle, Alex is dead, and it just feels like dirty pool to do something like that to her character. We waited for a couple of seasons to have a reunion, and then their story got put on the back burner and then zapped altogether.
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but not the difference in how those deaths are treated from those of the male characters
Yeah, I didn't pick up on that for a while and then once I did I tried to ignore it, because I reminded myself that I'm not always as perfect as I should be with gender issues either, they're a product of their society and yadda yadda yadda, but it went from being 'the kind of stuff you sometimes get with most any show' to 'oh come on, not again'.
Interesting that the women all seem to get shot, too.
And they always die from it-- Locke and Sawyer both got shot and recovered (not that I'm saying they shouldn't have, especially Sawyer, because then I would've stopped watching a lot earlier. I'm shallow that way. Hee) but I really would've liked to see at least one of the women get an episode equivalent to Sawyer's-- centered on her as she tried to be tough and make jokes through a hell of a lot of pain and one or more of the guys trying to nurse her back to health; or Locke's-- people thinking she's gone and then, surprise! The only one I can think of who had even close to that was Naomi, and then guess what happened to her.
And even if they do pull a surprise comeback with Danielle, Alex is dead, and it just feels like dirty pool to do something like that to her character. We waited for a couple of seasons to have a reunion, and then their story got put on the back burner and then zapped altogether.
Okay, I'll stop grumbling now, really. LOL