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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
We are near the end of the series. You can't come out in the last 10 min of a play and introduce characters. It's invalidates what you've been watching. You build a story so people can feel involved, you don't just add and add and then it ends suddenly.
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Quick, name one character from Jules Verne's
The Mysterious Island?
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It's also lazy. As they said on the Simpsons at the end of the Lord of Flies spoof...."and they're eventually rescued by.....oh let's say Moe."
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I agree with this observation, the entire finale did have a sorta Deus ex machina sort of feel to it....from Bernard/Rose/Vincent being "retired" to Juliet changing her mind about an H-bomb based on a glance
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Originally Posted by JWBear
It's not like they just made him up. He's been there all along and the witters have been giving us clues. It's just that no one read the clues for what they were and figured it out.
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Perhaps, but I sort of get the feel that the writers placed the clues before they really knew what they were clues for.
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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer
AhHa! This breakdown totally made it clear to me where you and CP are coming from. It makes sense now and I totally see your point. Esau is a random character. For some reason I kept thinking you guys had an issue with 'young Jacob'.
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What if it turns out that "Esau" goes by the name Aaron?