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Agreed. I am still hoping that it will get better. I'm not rooting for crap every week.Some of us want validation that what they just watched is the garbage that they thought it was, just like others want to keep it positive because they are still feeling it. As long as it stays within the theme of the thread, LOST, all opinions should be voiced.
Well...there's that too.*sigh*
Despite what it looks like, that post wasn't directly at JTC.I feel like literally 50% of the stuff in here is the same negative rhetoric. All along the same theme as the quoted post.You say it was 7 days ago, I'm sure there are plenty more since then.I just don't get it I guess.Capella said:
http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2010/02/lost...omposition.html
So what you are trying to say is that this is just a dramatic version of Three's Company.Sounds about right.
There's quite a few things done for dramatic effect in this show - many with no payoff (to this point). Several posters have been stating they want to get all the DVD's and rewatch the entrie series again - and to each their own. IMO, that type of viewing will likely reveal this shows warts. For instance, when you come to the dramatic moment where Ben is having breakfast with Kate and says somehting like "The next few days will be very unpleasant for you" - and the veiwer is thinking OMG what are they going to do to Kate???!!!???!!!?
Actually I think it will allow us to focus on the aspects of the show that we know there are answers to. I can now say, after I see the Ben and Kate scene, "that's not important" and move on. I'm already rewatching and into Season 2 right now. 2nd time around is definitely better.The Dude said:
It's poor storytelling to have things in the main narrative that just dead-end because the writers can't figure out how to fit them in. If there are little side-plots that sort of end up going nowhere, that's one thing, but it seems like they set that up to be a big part of the show, and then just didn't know what to do with it.
Oh the days when we theorized that Kate was an "other". Those were the good old days of Lost, brings back memories.The Dude said:
I liked Ben's story, but with only 10 episodes left until the final 2 hour finale (now 9), they need to get moving.
I agree - that was a great episode. And I think that the parallel storylines of Ben redeeming himself for Alex in both lives really worked this time.
I hadn't really thought much of the flash-sideways until tonight's episode. What did Roger mean about them leaving the island? did that happen in the original timeline? did they leave because of the bomb going off? That's the whole thing about the sideways deal, it's confusing to me now, but hopefully there will be a payoff for it
Vampire?
Well if they didn't ask him people would complain about the characters not asking questions.
I'd argue that they already are paying off, not in the sense of progressing the story or giving us "answers" but in evolving the characters. They often make you think of something or someone in a way that you hadn't before.
Completely agree. That's what was so special about tonight's episode. I've been telling friends that I really hoped the writers did not lead Ben down a road of redemption. He's my favorite character and before tonight I was hoping he would stay sinister throughout. In 60 minutes they completely changed my mind and now I like his character even more "redeemed". Michael Emerson deserves best actor ever award.
I'm halfway between enjoying the show and annoyed by what I perceive are needless flaws. I don't head in looking to pick everything apart. But these go-nowhere Q and A's that take place while people are trekking through the jungle are beyond pointless at this stage. There are two reasons for the complaints that characters don't ask questions: it's not realistic that this crazy stuff would be happening and nobody would be looking for answers, and the fact that we as the audience don't learn anything. The go-nowhere Q and A's don't quell either. Hurley asking why Richard doesn't age is realistic, but after being told "it was a gift", not asking what the hell that means is completely unrealistic. So it's still unrealistic. And obviously we don't learn anything either. So I'd rather they leave that stuff out, or have the characters ask questions that the writers feel comfortable providing realistic and informative answers too.Well if they didn't ask him people would complain about the characters not asking questions.
What do you mean by Miles power is explained?Great episodeThe good side and bad sides are getting set up.we kinda confirm richard was on the black rockwe get the "touch" hurley is hungrymiles' power is explainedwe know who jacob meant when he said "theyre coming"Ben is a GOOD GUYmiles gets the diamondsbad guys are meeting up at hydraalso, if you were able to watch the popup repeat. you know that Kate isnt on the bad side. i kinda like the popup episodes better. Hard for me to follow everything
I agree but what I took from that was that was the fundamental difference between Sideways Ben and Island Ben. Island Ben would have pushed harder to blackmail Thornberg. And his fate would have left him alone as was the case on the island. Sideways Ben did the right thing and made another person's life better as a result.
Ditto. He's been lost for quite awhile but it looks like he has a sense of purpose again.
just that we didnt know if he just sat around and had a chat with them or whatWhat do you mean by Miles power is explained?Great episodeThe good side and bad sides are getting set up.we kinda confirm richard was on the black rockwe get the "touch" hurley is hungrymiles' power is explainedwe know who jacob meant when he said "theyre coming"Ben is a GOOD GUYmiles gets the diamondsbad guys are meeting up at hydraalso, if you were able to watch the popup repeat. you know that Kate isnt on the bad side. i kinda like the popup episodes better. Hard for me to follow everything
when they show the black rock episode, that will be awesome. I need to know how it got inland. once they showed the island moves I assumed it moved underneath, but its not like everyone has been wet during the time jumps
as Dogan explained, he seems to get alot of people killed too
Or perhaps he's just really intuitive.
Ben murdered Locke, Jacob, and was an accomplice in the double-homicide of Libby and Anna-Lucia. I don't feel any sympathy for him at all. He should be shot.
Yes, that was pretty flimsy. Ben could've just said "How about you resign AND write the letter of recommendation or I'll spill the beans." Or, just realize that a disgraced/fired principal in Los Angeles isn't going to have any special pull with Yale admissions, and anything damning he might write would look bizarre next to the other glowing letters of recommendation that Alterna-Alex certainly could've had written on her behalf.The writers tried to set up a scenario akin to Mutual Assured Destruction, and failed.
She needed a recommendation from a Yale alum, and the principal was the only one at the school. Now, maybe he could hope to get lucky and find another local Yale alum who would do him a favor, but he decided not to risk Alex Rousseau's (expected but nice touch on the last name) future just to advance his agenda. And that particular idea might, just might, have kept Alex alive in the main timeline.
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