sholio | A drive-by comment on Lost

So I'm no longer "officially" watching Lost -- but my husband still is, so I kind of tune in and out on the episodes. And hey, last night WAS the finale, so I was watching more often than not.

And they actually did something awesome for a change.

The twist with the flashback! Or rather, flash-forward. While the actual *content* of it doesn't give me any hope that the show will be any less depressing and emotionally manipulative next year, the actual twist? SWEEEEEET. See ... THIS is what got me hooked on the show in the first season, those OMFG! moments when you realize that what you *thought* was going on is really not what was going on, e.g. in Sawyer's first flashback, or Locke's.

I think one of the big things that's caused the show to suffer in the second and third seasons is that they're still *trying* to do that, but they've mostly run out of good ideas, so instead of giving you that cool and unique brain-twist, they try to fool the viewer by deliberately concealing things from them or changing plots in midstream. At least that's what it feels like to me.

But the future flashback ... that was actually pretty damn cool. And from all the mysteries raised at the end (whose funeral does Jack want Kate to attend? who is Kate living with? I'm guessing one or the other of those people is Sawyer, but it's tough to say...) I'm guessing that the time-jumping in the series next season might actually be between the present and the future as much as the present and the past. Which would be really neat.

Still not neat enough to make me overcome my growing dislike of the characters and the writers, but cool. :D

Also, apropos of nothing, I'm leaving town tomorrow and I'll be back on June 6th or thereabouts. (This isn't the Newfoundland trip; that's later.) I probably won't have Internet access, so if I suddenly stop responding to discussions, that's why. But I'll be back in June.

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Oh no, that means you won't be around for beta'ing...

have a good trip!

I've actually really enjoyed some of Lost this season. Once they dropped the crazy torture stuff it got fun again.

Oops, yeah, I just got your email. I'm sorry! But I look forward to reading the final chapter.

There have been some good moments on Lost, but for me they've been far too overshadowed by the bad. I just don't really like most of the characters anymore.

I agree with all you said. The thing that irritated me, though, was why did Charlie sacrifice himself? He could have opened the door at any time -- it swings out, and locked it again from the outside to prevent the water from flooding the rest of the place. If he did it just because of the vision... well, that's just stupid. Unless I missed something vital, which happens frequently. *g*

I've got a list of about thirty five other words I *frequently* see misused/misspelled. The ones I shake my head over the most ...

prostate/prostrate ... saw someone use 'prostate on the beach' once ... brought such a vivid and icky image to mind :-)

rein / reign ... all those people trying to 'reign in their desire'

ack people, learn the difference between 'breath' and 'breathe'

lose / loose ... 'lose lips sink ships' ... well it made *me* giggle

discreet / discrete ... people deciding to have a 'discrete relationship' *snort*

:-) Wish I could take credit for the icon. It was made by

obsessiveicons. When I saw it I had to have it, for the same reasons you just listed as well as the ones on the icon itself. *g*

lose / loose ... 'lose lips sink ships' ... well it made *me* giggle

*grins* Me too! If someone loses their lips and the ship runs into them, the ship could sink. Well, it could!

And, yes, that prostate on the beach is just so very wrong. lol

I love your icon. That J/D almost-wedding was my favourite scene in "200". :)

There are several ways he could have survived, actually. Besides what you said, we know that they're close enough to the surface to swim there. If they couldn't get the door shut against the pressure of the water (and if they're willing to abandon the facility) they could jump into the pool thingie and swim out. Or, wait for the water pressure to equalize in the room where he's trapped, and then wriggle out the porthole and swim to the surface ...

I guess that if fate is determined to kill him off, he'd just have to keep dodging it for the rest of his (probably short) life, though. But I agree with you -- it's not much of a sacrifice if a person doesn't have to die!

I've since read some reviews of the episode -- all hugely positive, except for one from an idiot who obviously didn't pay attention at all. It was pointed out that according to Desmond's vision about Charlie going down there to the facility, if he did what he did and he died, then Claire and the baby would get off the island. So, apparently, Charlie did sacrifice himself in order to make the vision come true. Yadda.

I'm still, "But why Charlie?" and sad about it. But it was an excellent two hours of television. Nearly all of the other season finales of my shows have been disappointing this year, except CSI, so this was extremely refreshing and exciting.

...now you've done it. You made Lost sound all interesting! How! Why! Noes! Okay - is it worth sitting through everything between the season 1 finale and this just for the cool of it? Or will I just be back to being incredibly frustrated with it before I get to this particular point?

Have a good trip!

Okay - is it worth sitting through everything between the season 1 finale and this just for the cool of it? Or will I just be back to being incredibly frustrated with it before I get to this particular point?

I'm going with door #2, here. *grin* I've pretty much given up on Lost at this point. Every once in a while, there will be an episode that's good. There have been ... two this year, I think. Possibly three. Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point where I actively dislike the majority of the characters. As far as sympathetic characterization goes, it's been one step forward and two steps back, and the episode that really made me give up (a few weeks ago) was so absolutely wretched ... the emotional manipulation (of the characters AND the audience) made me feel actually ill. So, no. Don't. If I could go back and tell myself not to waste three years of my life on this show, I would.

But every once in a while it does still have its moments, like last night.

I had the same exact reaction to last night's episode. I was only half watching because I was working on a fic and then we got to the ending and I immediately needed to see it from the beginning again. That was the magic that's been gone for so long!

Yeah! It was that mental *click!* that really hasn't happened since the first season.

It still isn't enough to overcome the reasons why I've given up on the show. But, you know, between that and the fact they actually let the characters make contact with the outside world (rather than ending on a note of frustration) made it the first episode in a while that's left me with a really good feeling.

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