The Five: Reasons NOT to kill off Ana Lucia
I wholeheartedly disagree with this editorial in the Toronto Star. The writer calls for Ana Lucia’s character to be killed off on Lost. He’d like to see her get scurvy, mauled by a polar bear, “vanish into a black cloud”, or get shot in a special guest appearance by Dick Cheney. He says that, despite her tragic back-story, Ana Lucia is not a captivating character. He thinks she lacks depth and doesn’t like her attitude. He also calls for the “killing-off” of Izzie on Grey’s Anatomy, so he may just be completely out of his mind.Here are five reasons to keep Ana Lucia alive:5. We love to hate her. Why does everybody have to get along? So she’s abrasive and lacks common sense or civility. She has a management style thats, um, different. That makes for a great, strong character. Even if we do hate her.
4. Sexual tension. Ana Lucia fits right in the middle of the Kate-Jack-Sawyer love triangle and messes everything up! Something needed to happen to complicate that love triangle that was about to get old, and Ana Lucia was that something.
3. Shannon & Sawyer. I hated Shannon and Sawyer for a good chunk of the first season. Shannon with her snarl and her designer clothes, and Sawyer with his indifference for others were infuriating! But, if you’ll remember, they both became endearing characters. By the time she was killed, I was very sad to see Shannon go. And I would totally lose my mind if the writers killed off Sawyer, even though he has returned to his criminal ways. Give it time. There is a lot more back story to reveal and, as with Shannon and Sawyer, she could always redeem herself.
2. Harmony is for hippies. While The Others are interesting, Lost would get really boring if there wasn’t internal conflict within the castaways. This show needs a lot of flavors of conflict to keep it churning. Ana Lucia already has built-in conflict with Jack and Sayid and I can see a cat fight in the future between her and Kate.
1. It’s too obvious. Killing off Ana Lucia wouldn’t be shocking or have an impact because we’re not close to her character and she’s not likable (yet). That’s a boring, predictable storyline that wouldn’t have any lasting impact on any of the characters. Although, it would totally piss off these fans.
There have been lots of rumors to this effect; mostly due to her recent difficulties in real life, including being (reportedly) difficult to work with. However, I’m pretty sure that the producers have denied any plans to write her out, so we’ll see. I’ve liked her character so far, although she has been kind of stagnating lately. I think that’s only because they wanted to get back to doing “core character” stories for a while.
Hi Dan,
While I appreciate that you found my article interesting, I would also like you give me credit for it on your website.
-Anna
TV Squad
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/02/22/the-five-reasons-not-to-kill-off-ana-lucia/
It is credited. It is the big green link that says, “The Five: Reasons NOT to kill off Ana Lucia”
you should use pinkbacks.
I think she is lloking for you to make it a bit more obvious, ala a visible credit not a roll over.
I think the way you did it (link followed by a blockquote) was just fine, but I think we need a style adjustment to make it more obvious.
The link being the same color and the same exact text as the post title kind of makes it not stand out, and the very slight different shade of black for the blockquote background makes it very difficult to notice that it’s a blockquote, especially when there is no other text in the post.
Yeah, it’s not a style issue for the links, it’s that I just copied the post into wordpress and it made it an h2 class.
For the blockquote, I don’t see a black shade for the background. It’s just indented.
Anyways, this really was just for us few so who cares, you know it’s a quote and I know it’s a quote.
Before I read this, I did want Ana Lucia do get the axe. She pisses me off with her hard-core personality. But I agree with you that there is still a lot to be revealed about her and that it would be dumb to kill her off. And…kill of Izzy?!? Are you kidding me?
all of this things are so….?¿
well arent good