Lost

[orangerful]

Dear Lost Writers:

Stop pretending you're gonna kill off Sawyer. You can never kill off Sawyer. Or Jack. Or Kate. So threatening them is lame because we all know they are safe and sound.

Also, telling someone they better do something or they will kill another human being does not make that person madly in love with the other person. It makes them a decent human being who does not want to see another person get murdered!

Definately not enough Nathan Fillion in that episode. If you're gonna have Mal on the show, make it worth my while ;-)

So pretty much that ENTIRE episode was a tease for next "season" - Alex made an appearance but did nothing, no revelations in the flashbacks but Kate & Sawyer are not an item, Jack started the operation blah blah blah.

Also - my mom told me that the actor who played Mr Eko was arrested for driving without a valid license, or something along those lines. And now he's dead in the show. Damn, the lost producers to not mess around!

Comments

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

Well, it's the lamest cliffhanger they could have chosen. They should have cut when Sawyer had the one guy at gunpoint, and the other guy had Kate. That would have been a tension point.

Instead, they cut when? When Kate has the walkie and is conspicuously not telling Jack something really important....what was it, again?

Oh, yeah: "Jack, we can't escape because we're on a different island."

I liked it better when I thought Jack was going to save Ben in exchange for escape from the "island". See, that would tie up the loose end of what Jack was going to do, while still creating tension. And since we all know that Ben allowing Jack to escape the island just means going back to the first island, it allows for another reversal.

The episode was supposed to lead to a scene where Jack screws Ben, anyways, because he could tell something was up. But now, since Jack has held Ben at knifepoint, he can hardly fall back on the excuse of "accidentally" failing to save the man's life.

I don't know what they're doing with the show, but it's a weird thing.

At least Daybreak looks good.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I was really hoping Jack would turn the whole thing around with Juliette - turn her in and say that she wants Ben dead and played that card since I'm still not sure if that's a trick or not. Would have been tense though.

And Alex is clearly Ben's daughter. At least, that's what I'm guessing since she said she wanted to see him, and then he asked about her. Hard to say if it's biological father or adopted but still.

The "other island" thing bugs me. I don't buy it. Especially since the episode it was revealed in was all about tricking Sawyer.

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

It's getting a little too X-Filesy for me. You know, the whole "reveal something new that doesn't make sense, and instead of answering any questions, replace them with more questions that mean even less, until the entire show collapses under the weight of its own entropy."

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's been that way since last season. They compared Lost to X Files back when it first started, so I had mentally prepared myself for the suckage.

It's interesting because I just read a write up in USA Today about Lost and they apparently had a huge backlash because of the reruns last season and it sounds like the writers are fumbling around trying to find ways to keep people watching. They say that it's not a very big cliffhanger but it's "frustrating" enough that the audience will come back for more.

"Frustrating"? I don't think I want to watch a show that is described as frustrating....

...but I guess I am already.