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The show is really losing me. Har har. Seriously, though. I don't look forward to it as much as I do Veronica Mars, and the characters just don't catch me as much any more.
I'm sick of how this show brings up so many mysteries and then just drops them completely, or when we get partial answers, they're so unsatisfactory that the speculation was better. Mystical smoke? Bullshit. Crazy numbers and a test experiment? Seems like a letdown.
I'm tired of watching the Lostaways make idiotic decisions and not band together. If everyone - and I'm assuming they do by now, or else they're a bunch of maroons - knows about the danger in the jungle, why aren't they doing something for protection? At the end of last season I was waiting for them to make Cavetown-on-Dead-Pool into something of a fortress, or at least have them set up a perimeter fence around the encampments. They're still all acting like they expect to be rescued any day. They keep showing people setting tents up in the montages at the end of each episode, but I don't see any results.
The doctor, who is arguably the most important and irreplacable person on the island, is always the person to rush headlong into danger, and only once in my memory has someone called him on that. The group is falling apart sociologically and none of the actions make sense on a larger scale. The information about the hatch and the crazy numbers wouldn't have been kept under wraps this long. People get curious, and Arzt the Red Herring did say something like, "If you want to keep something a secret, don't tell the fat guy." So Hurley can't have been hiding everything that well.
Sayid is in mourning, yes, but he is underused. Strategically, he should be in the core group of leaders. Kate should not, but there was no reason for Jack to prevent her from going into the jungle that time, unless Jack has expert Strider tracking skills and weapons skills that we haven't learned about. Just because he can handle a weapon doesn't mean he's good at it, and we know Kate is good at it.
I'm fucking sick of Charlie. Yeah, cry cry cry, LotR fans, I used to be one of you, but Charlie has become useless. No one talks to him any more, his story arc has run out, and the only reason he's still there is because of ratings. The producers said at the beginning that they weren't going to kill the hobbit because he brought in too many viewers. His character arc was overcoming drug addiction and helping Claire. He did that. Now his character is just annoying and superfluous. Shannon finished her character arc, I suppose, and died. Boone finished his character arc (he became somewhat useful, and I say this being a hardcore Boone fan, too) and died. Charlie finished his character arc and hangs around annoying people.
The writers seemed to have forgotten all about Claire's memory problems. They've just disappeared. WHOOP, GONE! Claire was held by the Others for God knows how many episodes and they haven't even mentioned it this season, at the time that it should have become a major plot point. It's just been dropped. No one is trying to get her to remember what it was like, where she went. Not even when they were worried about Walt. They have someone right in their camp who's been abducted by the Others and it's not even brought up.
These inconsistencies are making me crazy. I don't know.
I feel like my rant power has been exhausted now. Does anyone else have any other thoughts? I'd love to have more of a discussion.