Waaaaalt!

(Lost spoilers ahead:) Harold Perrineau, who plays Michael on Lost, came back this season. He didn't do too much, though, and got killed in the finale, so I can see why he's a bit testy. Still, I think he goes too far in this interview:

I'm disappointed, mostly because I wanted Michael and Walt to have a happy ending. I was hoping Michael would get it together and actually want to be a father to his kid and try to figure out a way to get back [home]....

...there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn't interesting? Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn't so interesting.

I agree with Perrineau that a Michael/Walt reunion was a good idea, but he knows there's a perfectly good reason why it didn't happen. The actor who plays Walt is three years older than when his character left the island, and looks it. The Michael character, however, dies not long after he left the island with Walt, so short of amazing CGI work, they can't play any scenes together.

Of course, I'd bet the producers made Michael leave the island in the first place because he was one of the more boring characters.