This Week's LOST

[rj_anderson]

Note: If you are a fellow LOST fan and prefer not to read negative reviews of shows you love, you may wish to skip this entry.

What, did the entire usual writing staff go on holiday?

I wasn't surprised by anything this week. I saw all the plot developments coming five minutes before they happened, up to and including the ending. There were only a couple of funny lines (one of which was said by Charlie, the other one by Jack for pity's sake) and I actually ended up liking Rose and Bernard less now that I know more about them. Also, what happened to S1 Rose, the one who had strong Christian faith and believed in miracles? I guess now we know a little more about why she might believe in miracles, but last season her religious beliefs were a major part of her character, whereas they weren't even mentioned here (unless you count the "What does God have to do to get your attention?" line, but anyone could have said that about a guy ignoring Niagara Falls).

Also, it is just stupid that everybody suddenly wants to stay on the island and nobody is interested in making a sign or otherwise trying to get rescued. Bernard may have been annoying, but there was no good reason that the Lostaways wouldn't agree he was right, except that the plot demanded it. Also, the whole Jack-and-Kate-tied-up-in-a-tree-almost-k-i-s-s-i-n-g thing was so contrived it was embarrassing. Lame, lame, lame.

Fortunately, the show is usually dead awesome, and there have been some really good eps leading up to this one, so I'm not tempted to give up on it or anything. But man, I want that hour back.

Comments

[babelmira.livejournal.com]

Syn, it's Lost. Lost and Sense only live together in this sentence.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmph. Look who's become all cynical now that she's 36. ;)

I grant you the flashback story was (quite unusually) very poor, and I fast-forwarded through most of it..

.. but I thought the hanging-in-a-tree scene was a cute one-shot. It only lasted two minutes and change, and Lost is a show where it's (almost) plausible.

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

"Also, it is just stupid that everybody suddenly wants to stay on the island and nobody is interested in making a sign or otherwise trying to get rescued."

Ah, but this phenomenon has been documented before, beginning with researchers working in the 1960s. Psychologists call it the "Gilligan Syndrome," and note that it most often manifests itself in a series of Freudian "mistakes" (some of them repeated) that spoil escape attempt after escape attempt. In the most extreme cases, rescued castaways get lost again, in an effort to reclaim their island "home."

Hope that helps.

[tonicollins.livejournal.com]

Ah, while I still watch, I despair. It used to appear that the writer's had a plan. At least a better plan than, say, Chris Carter's "oh look! it's a conspiracy!" plan. But, wow, the notion that this whole thing is in Hurley's imagination.... Save me, please. Then food fell from the sky. OMG. Then, Rose got damn annoying and... and... oh no.