“Lost” sprinting in place to the finish line
If you’re going to start up a season, only to stop six episodes in and then make your fanbase wait 14 weeks to finish out the season (all be it straight through until the end without taking a week off), you better end those first episodes in a drastically different place than where you started. This? This was nothing. As far as I’m concerned, this was a total Brayton to the viewers by the supposedly brilliant Lost writers. Look, we all know they’re making it up as they go along (which for reasons unknown to me people seem to find offensive) and I have no doubt they’re sincere in their efforts, but that doesn’t mean you can pass off nothing for something. Find yourself painted into a corner? Write the fuck out of it! That’s what they had to do with the Mr. Eko mess from last week, and did so rather brilliantly I felt (did anyone else notice that there wasn’t a single frame of his dead body on the screen this week? Curious, no?). Instead, we were given a cliffhanger where everything being ‘hung’ was based on information we more or less received six months ago.
The thing is, all of this is completely forgivable. I don’t mind being jerked around only to have to wait three months before seeing the inevitable non-conclusion. Honestly, I don’t. But! When you dangle Nathan Fillion in front of me a minute into the episode and then give him less screen time than the god damn polar bear, that’s where you lose me.
I have fourteen weeks to decide if this is truly an executionable offense, or simply poor planning, but as of right now, I could easily see jumping this sinking ship.
Next week, Daybreak???
November 9th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Who the f—- is Jacob?
February 7th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
[...] Personally, I feel I may have been a a little rough in hindsight on the fall finale. Yes, it sucked, but there have been Heroes episodes this season that have been far worse (and more maddening). Lost’s curse is being a show that has the potential every week of not only being great, but elevating the medium. It has the ideas. It has the creative talent to pull it off. It has the acting. So when these forces don’t pull you aren’t just disappointed, you’re pissed off. [...]