Lost S4

[pocochina]

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[myfriendamy]

It felt a little writer's strikey, was this that year?

yes lol

[pocochina]

ahaha, nailed it.

[ever_neutral]

So I liked it, largely on the principle of WHY THE FUCK NOT?
This is basically my attitude to Lost throughout. Good to see it serving you well.

[pocochina]

I've learned some harsh lessons about expectations. Specifically: not having them ever.

[youcallitwinter]

Lol, WHY THE FUCK NOT? is the best way to go into this show, honestly, it's based on that principle even more so than TVD. I'm a little hazy on the seasons now, but I do remember the season 3 finale was totally epic, and just so well constructed and that the ending was just a fantastic reveal, the red-herrings wonderfully placed. And I do enjoy how careful and tight the scripting is, where they pick up plot points from basically everywhere in the series, EVERYTHING is explained, except for those obvious things that you thought would be (much like the Cheese Man in BtVS, heh). They pick up threads from S1 as late as S6. So it's honestly a grand, gorgeously thought out show in that sense, even though completely insane, lol.

[pocochina]

lol, the Cheese Man strikes me as an apt comparison.

Yeah, I feel like it'd be a tough show to try to predict or map onto a conventional structure, but that's what I'm enjoying most about it. (I joked on tumblr that I think Jacob is actually Salvador Dali but like...I THINK JACOB IS ACTUALLY SALVADOR DALI. This is live action surrealism at work and I LOVE IT.)

[mfirefly10]

IMO, Season 4 was the weakest of the good Lost seasons. It was still enjoyable but it suffered from the writers' strike, absolutely.

lol, I think the whole 'Locke is in the coffin' reveal was a lot less shocking than the writers were hoping for. Then again, it was clearly never going to be truly shocking so guessing it didn't really ruin anything.

[pocochina]

Locke is always kind of the obvious guess, I suppose, he's at the goddamn center of everything.