Lost has jumped the shark.
It has officially gotten so dumb that I don’t even care about the explanations anymore because the chances they will be satisfactory are slim to none. Despite following a relatively good episode last week, this episode was painful to watch. Of every character on the show, Ben, Jacob, and Evil Locke are the only people we’re left to be at all curious about; the only ones whose motives and goals are still unclear. At this point, it’s like watching a silly chess game where every piece but two are pawns and the players keep making up the rules as they go along.
I know it’s become almost passe for me to hate on this show every week, but come on. It’s just getting ridiculous. At this point, I’m genuinely watching just to get it over with.
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i never really chime in on LOST discussions because i don’t have as much vested in this show as some people and because frankly, i don’t remember a lot so when someone is like “oh, there’s hurley’s psychic from season 3” or “hey, there’s kate’s manicurist!” i’m like “uh, whaaa?”
having said that, i really liked this week’s episode probably because it was about sayid. i thought that end montage ruled! it’s just everyone seems on their own now – such a stark contrast to the whole live or die together mentality. the island is consuming them and they are getting smarter and smarter and i like it.
that song that played at the end while they were following locke out. i loved that part.
Really? This isn’t just your usual twice seasonal frustration? I couldn’t disagree with you more: it was a very strong episode and really entertaining.
It IS a real big downer of an episode, a really dark season overall, and there was a lot of chewing on themes of hopelessness and how, no matter how hard one tries, it might be utterly impossible for some of these characters to achieve any real freedom. Sayid’s only choices are awful Hobson’s choices.
I’ve felt that this reveal that faith and religion are huge cosmic farces has been a pretty interesting thing for a big-budget network show to grapple with in its final season.
The only thing I thought didn’t work was the editing when Ben and his crew suddenly appeared in the middle of the Temple.
Let’s get it all out in the open here: The episode was just too Sayid-centric for our resident Strom Thurmond here. He only seems to like the episodes that focus on the caucasian characters.
I didn’t want to call attention to it, but THANK YOU, Kev. I remember that time I went to watch Lost at his apartment and he loudly shouted to nobody in particular that he didn’t like how Mr. Eko was drinking from the same water supply as everyone else.
A beat of silence, as the rest of us shifted uncomfortably in our seats and prayed a commercial would change the topic for us, then John slammed down the bottle of rubbing alcohol he’d been nursing and began repeating the same thing over again. Louder. The air in front of his hateful mouth a wavy blur from the stink-fumes of his bile-stenched alcohol breath.
It was the worst night of my life.
I feel your pain, Justin. That sounds pretty much just like our family holiday dinners with him, but with the added discomfort of him ordering Gosia around, calling her his “Aryan Princess”, and my children looking on in horror as he screams at them about Frosty The Snowman being a “goddamned race traitor”.
It’s horrifying.
You guys are jerks. Hilarious jerks.
But as for Lost, the coincidences in the alternate universe is what’s doing it for me. Sayid meeting the mercenary guy who kidnapped Jinn? It just makes me roll my eyes. Top that off with some really horrible, cheesy, ridiculous, and wholly predictable writing and my eyes were rolling so far into the back of my head I could see my brain.
Maybe it’s just that I’ve been watching Battlestar so I have a good show to compare it to.
Eh, I’d venture that everything I’ve seen of Battlestar (and I’m still a few episodes from the end of the third season) has displayed an equally torturous relationship with mythology. And I’m a fan of both.
There hasn’t been any sign thus far that the alternate timeline is running parallel to the action on the Island. I’ve gotten the impression (and a few clues in this episode nailed it) that the denouement of the conflict on the Island will end with the characters getting dropped into this alternate world that their actions created, like a season long epilogue.
It seems less like a series of coincidences and more like the pieces falling in such a way that the characters will end up getting, after the choices they’ve made since encountering the Island, exactly what they deserve. Sayid is given horrible, impossible choices that he’d be better off walking away from altogther, like Sawyer. Instead, he gives in to his darker nature and pities himself for being a killer. He’s going to suffer in this other world and he deserves it. So does Keamy.
John said:It just makes me roll my eyes. Top that off with some really horrible, cheesy, ridiculous, and wholly predictable writing and my eyes were rolling so far into the back of my head I could see my brain.
hey you’re being a real snob. get off your high horse and watch the damn show. quit threatening us with saying you’ve given up on it or that you’re tired of watching it. if you’re tired of watching it, stop watching it! don’t hurt me none!
you’re like one of them hipsters that swears off alcohol and has to tell everyone about it.
tell me you didn’t like the look of fear in ben’s eyes when he saw sayid standing by the water with a bloody knife. that was rad.
I stopped watching after they showed a version of the actual plane crashing for the umpteenth million time, however Mr H watches it, so it’s sometimes on here.
The scroll at the bottom of the page is a hilarious attempt to make sense of any of it… which it doesn’t.. which is why it sucks.
I definitely feel obligate to finish this show off. I hardly ever catch it at it’s scheduled time anymore.
the best part about the internet is that it’s where opinions are facts
For the record, I don’t think you’re being snobby about this, Hutch! You’re just inhabiting that weird space you get yourself into where you hate Lost for being the Lost it’s always been: a fistful of feints, red herrings, teases, oddball repetition (a la Watchmen), and mysterious agendas getting shaken around over goofy action and interesting character beats.
S’weird, since I thought while watching it that you’d probably end up loving this last episode quite a bit.
The character beats are interesting anymore. I think that might be what did it. That they keep trying to wow us with the whole good-guy torturer dichotomy and I just don’t care anymore. I’ve seen, like, 27 episodes about how Sayid is just trying to be a good guy now and it’s gotten redundant.
Just got done watching this. John is fucking nuts. This was a great episode. One of the best of the season.
It finally laid it out. For how many seasons its been “Well, is Sayid good or bad….etc.” Well now it put the line in the sand. He’s bad and throwing his lot in with evil. Now whether it stays that way who knows. But it was the most unequivical statement yet on the guy.
The more interesting question is was Kate walking out with them an indication that she is also bad?