TV Review: LOST
So tonight, after 6 long seasons filled with questions, mysteries, strange happenings, and endless speculation, LOST has come to its finale, and it ends with a WHIMPER. As expected.
When LOST first began, it set up a huge, and extremely intriguing mysteries. A plan crashes on an island. On this island, the sick are healed, the crippled are fixed, a monster roams around roaring and smashing trees, and even killing people, and strange people appear. Who were these people? What was that monster? What exactly was this Island and how did it do the things it did? And what was that Dharma initiative group who seemed to be experimenting on the island? And why on earth were there POLAR BEARS on this island? What was all this, what did it mean?
Six seasons and a final episode later, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. What basically followed the brilliant first season was season after season of endless mysteries, questions that never got answered, and just bizarre events that were NEVER explained. What was the importance of the Dharma initiative? That mysteries dominated the show during it's 2nd and 5th seasons, and eventually meant NOTHING and was never explained. The others, the group of people already on the island, dominated the third season, and also meant NOTHING and their motivations were never explained. Why did they kidnap people? What did they do with those people? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM ALL? There were children on the plane, the others took them, and that was that. Never explained why.
In season 4, some of the main characters got OFF the Island, and the journey was to get back ON the island. Those who stayed behind ended up TIME TRAVELING, eventually getting stuck in the 70's in the middle of the dharma initiative which meant nothing. The other characters made it back to the island, also never explained how, they just got on another plane, there was a flash of light, and bam, there they were, ALSO IN THE 70's! How the island moved through time was never explained. They eventually blew up an atomic bomb, which was supposed to set everything straight but didnt.
Then season 6 rolls around, the season that's supposed to answer everything. And absolutely nothing was answered. Nothing. Instead we get introduced to a demigod named Jacob who is protecting the island and keeping the monster, also his evil brother, from escaping it. On this island is a golden pond with a magical light, which is never explained, and Jacob must guard it, and one of the castaways must be his replacement. This is all more ridiculous then it sounds.
Tonight was the final episode, and it pretty much ignored everything that ever happened on this how, including most of this season. In the end of it all, all the characters are dead, shown in purgatory, waiting to go to heaven. The island itself wasn't purgatory, just the sideways world the show kept flashing to during this season. I remember when purgatory was the big theory people had for this show. Funny to see it actually come true in a round about way.
At the end of the day, lost was a show with great potential, brilliantly written and acted characters, which never lived up to what it could have been. The show runners simply through too many mysteries to the wall in acts of desperation and they never had a back up plan to answer any of them. In the end, they just went the cheap old "religious metaphor" route, ala Matrix sequels, and neglected everything that came before it. In essence, the show ends up being a total failure. The show runners never had a plan, despite constantly saying that they did/ They never had a way to answer anything. The fanboys of this show use the excuse "oh do you really need EVERYTHING spelled out for you to make the show good?" Um...YEAH, WHEN IS VITAL TO THE STORY, YEAH! You cant just TOSS things out there like time travel and smoke demons WITHOUT a form of explanation. That's a bullshit excuse and its obviously grasping at straws.
For those curious about watching Lost, don't waste your time. The show is nothing but that, and not in a good way. It just goes to show how aptly titled the show is. Lost. For that is what happened to your time in watching this thing.
When LOST first began, it set up a huge, and extremely intriguing mysteries. A plan crashes on an island. On this island, the sick are healed, the crippled are fixed, a monster roams around roaring and smashing trees, and even killing people, and strange people appear. Who were these people? What was that monster? What exactly was this Island and how did it do the things it did? And what was that Dharma initiative group who seemed to be experimenting on the island? And why on earth were there POLAR BEARS on this island? What was all this, what did it mean?
Six seasons and a final episode later, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. What basically followed the brilliant first season was season after season of endless mysteries, questions that never got answered, and just bizarre events that were NEVER explained. What was the importance of the Dharma initiative? That mysteries dominated the show during it's 2nd and 5th seasons, and eventually meant NOTHING and was never explained. The others, the group of people already on the island, dominated the third season, and also meant NOTHING and their motivations were never explained. Why did they kidnap people? What did they do with those people? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM ALL? There were children on the plane, the others took them, and that was that. Never explained why.
In season 4, some of the main characters got OFF the Island, and the journey was to get back ON the island. Those who stayed behind ended up TIME TRAVELING, eventually getting stuck in the 70's in the middle of the dharma initiative which meant nothing. The other characters made it back to the island, also never explained how, they just got on another plane, there was a flash of light, and bam, there they were, ALSO IN THE 70's! How the island moved through time was never explained. They eventually blew up an atomic bomb, which was supposed to set everything straight but didnt.
Then season 6 rolls around, the season that's supposed to answer everything. And absolutely nothing was answered. Nothing. Instead we get introduced to a demigod named Jacob who is protecting the island and keeping the monster, also his evil brother, from escaping it. On this island is a golden pond with a magical light, which is never explained, and Jacob must guard it, and one of the castaways must be his replacement. This is all more ridiculous then it sounds.
Tonight was the final episode, and it pretty much ignored everything that ever happened on this how, including most of this season. In the end of it all, all the characters are dead, shown in purgatory, waiting to go to heaven. The island itself wasn't purgatory, just the sideways world the show kept flashing to during this season. I remember when purgatory was the big theory people had for this show. Funny to see it actually come true in a round about way.
At the end of the day, lost was a show with great potential, brilliantly written and acted characters, which never lived up to what it could have been. The show runners simply through too many mysteries to the wall in acts of desperation and they never had a back up plan to answer any of them. In the end, they just went the cheap old "religious metaphor" route, ala Matrix sequels, and neglected everything that came before it. In essence, the show ends up being a total failure. The show runners never had a plan, despite constantly saying that they did/ They never had a way to answer anything. The fanboys of this show use the excuse "oh do you really need EVERYTHING spelled out for you to make the show good?" Um...YEAH, WHEN IS VITAL TO THE STORY, YEAH! You cant just TOSS things out there like time travel and smoke demons WITHOUT a form of explanation. That's a bullshit excuse and its obviously grasping at straws.
For those curious about watching Lost, don't waste your time. The show is nothing but that, and not in a good way. It just goes to show how aptly titled the show is. Lost. For that is what happened to your time in watching this thing.