Michael! Sawyer! Udders!
OK, saw the rest of Lost. I mostly liked it a lot.
* I thought everything involving Michael was excellent. What a deliciously fucked up situation! I got a kick out of it.
* Disappointed that the season finale featured cutaway-style visual flashbacks, when Locke was describing the Pearl station to Desmond. It was interesting to discover that the show had never before employed that quite common editing technique by having its sudden presence seem so jarring. I'm not sure what happened, there.
* I loved Desmond's character quirk with the book, and the bit where he finds his grilf's letter in it. I have a reputation for barfing at all depictions of romantic goo-goo, but my appreciation for clever set-ups trumps all.
* Ana Lucia, whose mere presence I despised for a long time, got a lot less annoying before she died. I'm not stunned that they killed her off, but I'm not like HA ha goodbye either. Did she die during her own flashback ep? There were so many tonight that I lost track.
* Not only do we not know the fates of Locke, Echo(sp) and Desmond, but we're not even sure what happened to the hatch. "It exploded" isn't a satisfactory answer, given the freakiness of the lightshow and lack of a ker-blooey sound, and who's to say what sort of force made the QUARANTINE door fly away? Charlie just makes stupid noises and nobody asks him about it. Or at least Claire doesn't, but she's a twit so that's OK. I have to say that Charlie got a lot more annoying over the course of S2.
* Stupid things I could have done without: "Ms. Clue" (I don't even want to think of the furious wanking this must have caused on the Lost message boards) and the giant Homer Simpson foot. Come on, guys.
* Not even the slightest peep from the monster?! I admit that the Others are a far more interesting adversary than the monster, but I'm a little disappointed that it didn't even tip its hat for the finale. Unless I'm mistaken there's been no sign of it since Sayid stared it in the "face", maybe a quarter-ways through season 2.
* I liked that our host dougo pointed out some of the jokey fan-feedback hidden in the show, like when Hurley thought that a bird was calling his name, and Sawyer called him an idiot. Apparently some Paul-is-Dead-type fans were tripping over themselves thinking that an earlier bird sound effect was saying "Hurley".
* Bernard's idea with the sign wasn't a bad one. He found a good reason to personally abandon it, but I don't see why nobody else would pick it up. (Yeah, yeah, maybe someone did and the show just hasn't bothered to reveal it yet.)
* Walt's actor clearly went through a growth spurt in the year between his kidnapping and his (non-spooky) reappearance, even though only a few weeks had passed in show-time. His voice was even noticeably lower. This can only get more awkward, especially since it really seems they want to do more with that character, having only hinted at strange powers for two whole seasons now.
* There were no less than three instances of someone saying "Sorry" for apparently no reason, and then inflicting "unexpected" harm on the person they apologized to.
* I'll buy that Charlie narrowly escaped the blast, but why wasn't Echo burned up? Eh, whatev.
* Another TV trope that Lost loves: All people have a magic off switch on their head. Just whack them anywhere on the face or noggin with a blunt instrument and the right intent, and off to slumberland they go. They'll wake up later with no injuries at all. Magic!
* I thought everything involving Michael was excellent. What a deliciously fucked up situation! I got a kick out of it.
* Disappointed that the season finale featured cutaway-style visual flashbacks, when Locke was describing the Pearl station to Desmond. It was interesting to discover that the show had never before employed that quite common editing technique by having its sudden presence seem so jarring. I'm not sure what happened, there.
* I loved Desmond's character quirk with the book, and the bit where he finds his grilf's letter in it. I have a reputation for barfing at all depictions of romantic goo-goo, but my appreciation for clever set-ups trumps all.
* Ana Lucia, whose mere presence I despised for a long time, got a lot less annoying before she died. I'm not stunned that they killed her off, but I'm not like HA ha goodbye either. Did she die during her own flashback ep? There were so many tonight that I lost track.
* Not only do we not know the fates of Locke, Echo(sp) and Desmond, but we're not even sure what happened to the hatch. "It exploded" isn't a satisfactory answer, given the freakiness of the lightshow and lack of a ker-blooey sound, and who's to say what sort of force made the QUARANTINE door fly away? Charlie just makes stupid noises and nobody asks him about it. Or at least Claire doesn't, but she's a twit so that's OK. I have to say that Charlie got a lot more annoying over the course of S2.
* Stupid things I could have done without: "Ms. Clue" (I don't even want to think of the furious wanking this must have caused on the Lost message boards) and the giant Homer Simpson foot. Come on, guys.
* Not even the slightest peep from the monster?! I admit that the Others are a far more interesting adversary than the monster, but I'm a little disappointed that it didn't even tip its hat for the finale. Unless I'm mistaken there's been no sign of it since Sayid stared it in the "face", maybe a quarter-ways through season 2.
* I liked that our host dougo pointed out some of the jokey fan-feedback hidden in the show, like when Hurley thought that a bird was calling his name, and Sawyer called him an idiot. Apparently some Paul-is-Dead-type fans were tripping over themselves thinking that an earlier bird sound effect was saying "Hurley".
* Bernard's idea with the sign wasn't a bad one. He found a good reason to personally abandon it, but I don't see why nobody else would pick it up. (Yeah, yeah, maybe someone did and the show just hasn't bothered to reveal it yet.)
* Walt's actor clearly went through a growth spurt in the year between his kidnapping and his (non-spooky) reappearance, even though only a few weeks had passed in show-time. His voice was even noticeably lower. This can only get more awkward, especially since it really seems they want to do more with that character, having only hinted at strange powers for two whole seasons now.
* There were no less than three instances of someone saying "Sorry" for apparently no reason, and then inflicting "unexpected" harm on the person they apologized to.
* I'll buy that Charlie narrowly escaped the blast, but why wasn't Echo burned up? Eh, whatev.
* Another TV trope that Lost loves: All people have a magic off switch on their head. Just whack them anywhere on the face or noggin with a blunt instrument and the right intent, and off to slumberland they go. They'll wake up later with no injuries at all. Magic!