the lost finale was not entirely satisfying though to be honest i dont know which direction they could have taken it that would have been. but im not getting paid to write. complaints are free should you require some. linked above is laura miller's take that i generally agree with. here is time's james poniewozik piece along w/links to many others. still waiting on doc jensen's from entertainment weekly. any thoughts, feelings or otherwise?
should add that it was generally entertaining and somewhat moving effort on the show's part. but while the characters achieved some semblance of closure, the viewers who were more engaged in the mythological elements might feel a little underserved. really more of a complaint about the entire last season whose focus on the sideways world achieved an emotional payoff but not an intellectual one.
the jeff jensen review.
I was following the series commentary on Slate and a few quotes had me laughing out loud:
from Jack Shafer:
I've been bitching all season about all of the improbable and impossible nonmagical things that have happened, but the closing scene of tonight's episode, "The End," completely defies logic. How did the people who are in the chapel qualify for inclusion? Not because they were on the plane—Penny wasn't on the plane, nor was Desmond, and they're reunited in the chapel. If Penny and Desmond are reunited, why aren't Daniel and Charlotte? Is the deal that if you're in love and somehow connected to the plane, then you get to take the trip out the Big White Door? But what about John Locke? He's in the chapel of the dead and he has no love unit with him. If Locke, why not Vincent? If there is no logic behind the reunion, why the hell not reunite Sayid with Nadia? Ben with Rousseau. Alex with Karl. Lennon with McCartney.
and Chadwick Matlin:
Where are Michael, Walt, and Eko in this collective purgatory? Does their absence mean that they don't cherish their island-mates the way the rest of the characters do? Or that the producers hate black people? Discuss.
read today that Eko was supposed to be on the show for four years but wanted more money. same for finale. was asked back but wanted four times what they offered him. walt had a growth spurt which made his return problematic. probably why they had michael return to the island recently as a ghost with "issues" so they could write him out of the ending and tiptoe around the walt problem.
it just occurred to me that a more satisfying series that involved time travel and oodles of speculation was "Life on Mars" and "Ashes to Ashes". BBC productions from a few years ago, great stuff, check them out.
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- dave 5-24-2010 8:19 pm
should add that it was generally entertaining and somewhat moving effort on the show's part. but while the characters achieved some semblance of closure, the viewers who were more engaged in the mythological elements might feel a little underserved. really more of a complaint about the entire last season whose focus on the sideways world achieved an emotional payoff but not an intellectual one.
- dave 5-24-2010 8:28 pm [add a comment]
the jeff jensen review.
- dave 5-24-2010 9:24 pm [add a comment]
I was following the series commentary on Slate and a few quotes had me laughing out loud:
and Chadwick Matlin:from Jack Shafer:
- L.M. 5-25-2010 4:37 am [add a comment]
read today that Eko was supposed to be on the show for four years but wanted more money. same for finale. was asked back but wanted four times what they offered him. walt had a growth spurt which made his return problematic. probably why they had michael return to the island recently as a ghost with "issues" so they could write him out of the ending and tiptoe around the walt problem.
- dave 5-25-2010 7:26 am [add a comment]
it just occurred to me that a more satisfying series that involved time travel and oodles of speculation was "Life on Mars" and "Ashes to Ashes". BBC productions from a few years ago, great stuff, check them out.
- L.M. 5-26-2010 5:34 am [add a comment]