Re: [lost-world] Summerlee

[sleestak2]

Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Summerlee brought 
>scientific insight and fatherly wisdom to the mix which is now lacking,
in 
>my opinion.

Agreed about the fatherly wisdom, but it looks like the writers are now
trying to give all the scientific insight to Challenger.

> And I enjoyed the oneupmanship between Summerlee and Challenger.

Heh.  Yeah, that was always fun to watch.  Summerlee was smug and self
assured while Challenger was brash and cocky.  That *is* a relationship
I miss.  I also liked the interaction between Summerlee and Veronica.
They were developing a paternal-like relationship which played very well
into Veronica's quest for her parents.  Veronica needs Summerlee to fill
that void in her life.

>And Summerlee's 
>age may prevent him from swinging through the jungle on the vines but he

>was able to point and shoot that pistol in "Barbarians at the gate" (he
is 
>an ex-soldier, and therefore has some experience to bring to the
expedition).

Ah!  I forgot about the ex-soldier bit.  The writers could really tinker
with that and, for an episode, make him the general for some sort of
defense from an attacking tribe or something.

>I believe the character would fit in nicely, even in an action/adventure

>series, and he wouldn't have to be rescued every week like Maid Marian.

Well, if it means anything, I agree with you.  My whole point was that
I'm not sure the *writers* agreed with us.  The character has a lot of
potential that adds a realistic balance to the other characters.  Now,
without Summerlee, it's little too thick with machismo.

>Now they're making Challenger into a bit of a buffoon, and I don't know 
>why.  There seems no purpose to it.

I'll certainly concede that.  They keep setting him up to fail.

>Take the smoke-and-mirrors thing.  I just knew that no matter what 
>Challenger did, his scientific explanation wouldn't hold water.  Maybe
they 
>got rid of Summerlee so they could throw Challenger off-balance and stop

>questioning all the fantasy elements.  He just sort of shrugged and 
>conceded that maybe there really was something called "magic".

I didn't quite see it that way.  Unless there's something I missed,
it looked to me like he was surprised that the image still appeared in
the smoke, but he was at a loss to explain when, where or how it was
done.  I saw nothing to suggest he accepted it as "magic" or science.
They never explained one way or the other.  Again, did I miss something?

BTW, last night I watched "Barbarians at the Gate" and "All Or Nothing"
again, back-to-back.  I caught something interesting.  At the beginning
of "All Or Nothing", the women have a run-in with the ape-men.  Yet,
they keep calling them "cavemen" instead of the usual "ape-man".  I
wonder if this is a deliberate effort from the writers to change the
nature of these primitive people (from animal-like to human-like) or
just a gaffe.

Robert

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