June 26, 20223 yr No I’m afraid I stopped before that Chez. I found Season 3 a massive chore and I’m usually really persevering with shows but this is one of the very few times I stopped a show part way through
June 26, 20223 yr Author 26 Ilana Verdansky Played by: Zuleikha Robinson Recurring: Season 5 Main: Season 6 First introduced in season 5, Ilana was visited by Jacob when severely injured and heavily bandaged in a Russian hospital. She's given the task of protecting the six candidates for his successor in protecting the island. In doing so, she apprehends Sayid and gets him onto flight 316, the same flight as Jack, Kate, Sun and Hurley which, as expected, ends up back on the island. Ilana helps take leadership of the survivors of that flight, guarding the metal crate that contained John Locke's body despite him seemingly walking around the island and leading them towards Jacob. She remains on the island through season 6 when Jack and Hurley rejoin the group, but is ultimately killed by unstable dynamite which she'd gathered as part of Richard's plan to destroy the plane she'd arrived on. Already we're into characters that I don't dislike at all. In fact, there's little actively *wrong* with Ilana, but also I don't have loads to say that's positive either. It's clear that her storyline was ultimately sidelined in favour of the established characters, but it begs the question of why they even bothered promoting Zuleikha Robinson to the main cast in the first place. We learn little about her beyond her role as protector, and she's very abruptly killed off with little wider impact. A waste of potential perhaps and it ultimately makes her one of the more disposable characters of a show that generally did an incredible job at developing every member of its ensemble. Her absence from the final episode spoke volumes - they didn't even have a role for her at the very end and she hadn't integrated with the group enough to be part of the church scene at the end, so ultimately, did she offer anything beyond bringing Sayid to the plane? I'm not sure.
June 26, 20223 yr 28 Paulo Played by: Rodrigo Santoro Main: Season 3 27 Nikki Fernandez Played by: Kiele Sanchez Main: Season 3 The problem with these two is that they were introduced and brought in at Lost’s worst point. They suffered as a result because they didn’t have “The End” in sight until towards the end of S3. 26 Ilana Verdansky Played by: Zuleikha Robinson Recurring: Season 5 Main: Season 6 Yes, I also didn’t get the point of Ilana. I can’t wait for the rest of the countdown. Hopefully it won’t be long before Michael is out either haha!
June 26, 20223 yr Ilana was very disposable. She certainly didn't need to be considered "main cast" given she was never given a 'centric' episode. Her only flashbacks being part of Jacob's.. #JusticeforRose&Bernard not featuring here and Ilana taking their spot -_-
June 26, 20223 yr Ilana having no real point was weird given she was introduced so far into the show that you would imagine they had the end game planned out and any new introduction would have a clear role in it.
June 26, 20223 yr No I’m afraid I stopped before that Chez. I found Season 3 a massive chore and I’m usually really persevering with shows but this is one of the very few times I stopped a show part way through Season 3 suffered massivelt at times because the writers had run out of ideas and ABC were holding on to the show. I rememeber the first 6 episodes of Season 3 were all shown together before a longer break for the rest of the show. I think most people think the episode with Jack's tattoos is the low point of the show. But I do totally agree that Season 3 is an absolute chore at times. I think Desmond is the only one that keeps the show interesting at that point. I think John Locke is one of the best characters ever written, I was just a bit shocked with how they killed him off, but it had to be done that way I suppose. The Constant is one of the greatest ever episodes of TV though, that episode is absolutely fantastic.
June 26, 20223 yr Oh my I was the biggest Lost fan hen originally aired, I was living in the US and the show was massive there the first seasons were amazing and some of the plot twists were genius I religiously watched until the end. I still have mixed feeling about the ending, I would have preferred something else but in the end I made peace with the show and the ending. My fav character was always Kate :) Edited June 26, 20223 yr by Bjork
June 26, 20223 yr Ilana was very disposable. She certainly didn't need to be considered "main cast" given she was never given a 'centric' episode. Her only flashbacks being part of Jacob's.. #JusticeforRose&Bernard not featuring here and Ilana taking their spot -_- I’m here for that hashtag!
June 27, 20223 yr Nikki and Paulo were kinda meh. I prefer it when writers sucessfully redeem hated characters rather than just swiftly kill them off though I wasn't sorry to see the back of them. Illana had the same fate as pretty much all the female characters had on Lost. No plot relevance, little screentime, hints she could be interesting but then swiftly killed off without exploring it.
June 27, 20223 yr Author 25 Frank Lapidus Played by: Jeff Fahey Recurring: Seasons 4-5 Main: Season 6 Introduced in season 4, Frank is one of four new characters that arrive on the island from the freighter sent to the island by Charles Widmore. Frank is a pilot and a conspiracy theorist regarding Flight 815, of which he was the original intended pilot. He pilots a helicopter to the island from the freighter, which malfunctions and his team of Faraday, Charlotte and Miles parachute to safety. On the island, he helps the survivors avoid attacks from Martin Keamy, a mercenary that was also on the freighter, and helps a group of survivors escape the island and survive the freighter blowing up. These survivors were the Oceanic Six, who Frank later reunites with unexpectedly on Flight 316, which later crashes on the island. At the end of season 6, Frank is seen piloting the plane back off the island with Kate, Claire, Sawyer, Richard and Miles on board, escaping the island for good. Much like Ilana, I don't have anything actively bad to say about Frank. In fact, I think he's a pretty likeable character and Jeff Fahey does a good job with the material given. The problem again is a lack of development, though. Frank only had a brief flashback moment upon his introduction in season 4, and beyond that, he's effectively there to pilot people back and forth whenever the plot requires. Strangely, he feels even less prominent in season 6 as a regular cast member than he did in seasons 4 and 5 as a recurring star, serving basically only to pilot a few of them off the island to conclude their storylines in season 6. It'd be unfair to say Frank had no effect at all on the plots going on, but he wasn't a driving force behind them like most other characters were and therefore I can't really justify placing him anywhere other than here.
June 28, 20223 yr Frank is key for the plot in terms of giving them actual concrete hope of leaving, being a pilot and all-that, but as a character he's one of the few under-developed ones so he's about right if I was to have a similar ranking. There's cute moments involving him and the other survivors and they clearly respect him as he's their main hope of escaping. It's also admirable when he journeys with Sun to find Jin :heart: Overall a nice person/character, whose flaws aren't as overt as the other islanders, but not much else beyond that~ I also can't get over his makeover when he returns with no beard etc He looks 12!!1
June 28, 20223 yr !!!! :rofl: I swear it looks like he's had plastic surgery / botox when he returns too, it can't just be the beard?
June 28, 20223 yr Author 24 Ana Lucia Cortez Played by: Michelle Rodriguez Guest: Seasons 1, 5 and 6 Main: Season 2 Arguably the most major character to appear so far despite only really featuring in season 2, Ana Lucia certainly made a big impact during her short time on the island. We meet her initially in a flashback to just before Flight 815 departs in the season 1 finale where she bumps into Jack at a bar. Ana Lucia was in the tail section of the plane which lands on a separate part of the island, and she becomes the de facto leader of the group as we follow their journey in the season 2 episode The Other 48 Days. Ana Lucia was a police officer before the flight departed, though a much more morally complex character than that would suggest, having killed the man who shot her, causing her to lose her unborn baby. This continues onto the island too where she is responsible for Shannon's death, causing ripples within the group of survivors as both sides merge. She proves useful, though, when she helps figure out that Henry Gale isn't actually Henry Gale, and intends to kill him after he assaults her. Ultimately, she doesn't go through with it and hands the gun over to Michael, who shoots her and then Libby as part of his plan to free Henry (aka Ben). Ana Lucia is probably the first character where my true emotions have influenced things. The characters below were mostly non-events (or just not very good), and it's fair to say Ana Lucia was neither of those things. She's a VERY prominent character in season 2 and it's obvious that without her, the show would've taken a different course entirely. That said, I didn't actually *like* Ana Lucia much at any point. Perhaps I loved to hate her, but when the cast of characters is mostly so likeable, Ana Lucia ends up quite low down. Shooting Shannon just as I was growing to really like her didn't work in her favour and she didn't try very hard to integrate with the group beyond Jack, her abrasiveness making her scenes a bit of a difficult watch at times. She was played to perfection by Michelle Rodriguez, though, and I'd have loved to have seen Ana Lucia stick around a bit longer to delve further into the character and see if she redeems herself or falls further into a morally grey area. That said, her death scene is undoubtedly one of THE most shocking moments of the show - I definitely gasped when Michael fired that gun...!
June 28, 20223 yr I didn’t mind her so much on my first watch, but having rewatched it plenty of times since, I’m more annoyed by her as time has gone by.
June 28, 20223 yr I grew to really love Anna Lucia. She became one of my favourites just as she was killed off.
June 29, 20223 yr I've had such a journey with Ana Lucia! When I first watched, she was a huge favourite. A fearless, confident, no-f***s-given woman. On rewatch, things soured a bit when I realised just how much she shook the campmates with the Shannon death. One of my favourite things about her is that she doesn't let Sawyer the womanizer in (apart from when they get it on in the jungle - but even then, it's sort of on her terms). Anyone that can stand up to Sawyer is a STRONG person imo :lol: I also love her scenes with Jack at the airport in the bar. They are very similar characters in many ways - both are initial "leaders" of their groups: one leads with his heart, the other with her head. It's great to see how the survivors and the tail-end survivors differ in terms of their treatments of each other based on these leaders. Look at how they look up Jin, Sawyer etc! But those scenes do give us some genius interactions between the likes of Sawyer and Mr Eko etc :rofl: The shooting of Shannon still plays in my mind constantly. The whispers, the rain - two signs that danger is nearby, and then both sides of the island's survivors meeting in that explosive fashion. It's one of the show's greatest scenes in my opinion because they show ruthlessly that they aren't afraid to shock the audience, kill main cast members and completely shake up the status quo of what the viewers expect. After her own death - do I discuss that here or when her killer is revealed :thinking: - I think she loses alot of her might. Her as a policewoman in the outside world doesn't come across as believable as the raw, jungle warrior that she is on the island. I guess it all shows how deeply complex these characters are that my thoughts on her have changed a lot with each viewing, but also within the series, you never really know if you're rooting for her or not. Just like in the real world I guess! I'd probably have her slightly higher, given some other characters to come, but I suppose she isn't it in for too long compared to some of the others~
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