Does anybody else think the series feels kinda "off" now?

[spinnerlys]

Hi, since this season started, I feel kinda lost with Lost.
Not because of the mystery or new questions and some short answers, it just feels strangely stitched together and I can't put my finger onto it or explain it in better words.

For example, the answer to what the whispers are is okay, but the delivery felt (sorry for using that word so often, but it will appear more, I promise ) kinda cobbled together, as an afterthought or something.

Don't get me wrong, this season had me make loud sounds at the screen more often than the five seasons before, but that may also be due to my state of mind.

But there is something missing and somehow I don't know what it is.

I read in one of the episode threads, that many had the feeling that season six (and somehow season five and three) feel like a departure from the first three seasons and like a complete new series, maybe that's it.

Or maybe it's just that I want my answers to some questions I don't know I had, but somehow this series has lost something. Maybe that's the point though.

Have any of your a kind of strange taste on their tongue with the current episodes, which are good nonetheless, but ... different?

Maybe I should stop being sober...

 

[sidious618]

I can't say that I feel that way at all.

 

[Mr Light]

I feel the side-ways stories are a waste of time, but aside from that I'm happy with the season. I did enjoy Season Five more though.

 

[Agent Richard07]

It does feel a bit like a new show. The stuff we're seeing now could never have been forseen in season 1.

 

[label]

I'll definitely say there is a definite difference between the seasons and how they feel.

Season 1-2 were very close in feel/storytelling.
Season 3 was a mild transition towards a bigger picture story-telling.
Season 4 was a very transitional season that takes us completely out of Season 1-3 feel into the final two Seasons.
Season 5 completed the transition to it's final storytelling mode.
Season 6 has stayed very close to Season 5 though with some very intentional nods to some facets of Season 1.

 

[Velocity]

Lost has always wandered all over the place, so this isn't anything really new. I'm still enjoying the ride.

 

[Ryan8bit]

Hi, since this season started, I it just feels strangely stitched together and I can't put my finger onto it or explain it in better words.

I think that it's because some episodes are just shifting the pieces around, mostly playing the setup game. Plus they have so many characters involved in so many events that it's hard to just focus on one. So sometimes we get episodes like this one that shift around. The flow of the episode isn't thought out and whoever is directing it didn't make it any better. I thought last week's was ok, and Richard's episode was great, but the Jin/Sun episode was kinda the same. It's like they're not self contained stories when a lot of episodes have been.

 

[spinnerlys]

Thanks for the replies (and keeping me out of bed), I think I can grasp the general strangeness a little bit better now.

And I still enjoy the show, but not as much as season one to three, of which I watched almost every episode more than thrice.

In season six, I don't have the urge to do so though.

Hmmm. Something must be wrong with me*.


* I recently stopped having an interest watching 24, Castle, USoT, Nurse Jackie, Breaking Bad, The Pacific, ... .
Maybe I'm just fed up with the telly.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I'll definitely say there is a definite difference between the seasons and how they feel.

Season 1-2 were very close in feel/storytelling.
Season 3 was a mild transition towards a bigger picture story-telling.
Season 4 was a very transitional season that takes us completely out of Season 1-3 feel into the final two Seasons.
Season 5 completed the transition to it's final storytelling mode.
Season 6 has stayed very close to Season 5 though with some very intentional nods to some facets of Season 1.

I can pin down the shift in Season 4 for me. It was when the Mercs launched RPGs at the houses. Of course, even the concept of manicured houses that mercenaries could launch rockets into would have been alien to season 1, but it felt like a shift in the show where characters suddenly became expendable and the stakes became higher.

That being said, I loved Season 4 and I wouldn't go back now.

 

[RoJoHen]

My only main complaint with this season is that I had been having a hard time keeping track of everybody on the island. Some people were with Locke. Some people were hunting Locke. Some people were looking for Jacob. Some people were looking for Claire. Some people were wandering back and forth between a few different things. At the start of every new episode I couldn't remember who knew what.

 

[Velocity]

It looks like they are starting to get rid of the extra characters and beginning to focus on the original characters again. I like Miles but eye-liner boy has outlived his usefulness. As for Ilana, she never had much to do and wasn't essential to the plot,so boom-bye!

 

[Agent Richard07]

I think the show was fairly cohesive up to the end of season 4. Season 5 was the big departure. When we were watching season 1, who would have guessed that one day, our characters would be trapped in 1977 working for a bunch of hippies? And season 6 was yet another departure with this alternate timeline/Jacob stuff.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The thing is that nothing in the show was really that radical of a departure. They do a good job of leading things in slowly. They basically say "if you can accept one thing, why not accept this too?" and keep doing this until big changes happen.

 

[gh4chiefs]

I've definitely had a disconnected feeling during this season. The "sideways" reality or whatever it is, has so far bored me to death. Even tonight's big moment kind of left me feeling "meh" at the end.

It's time for this show to end. It's definitely run it's course.

 

[label]

I think the show was fairly cohesive up to the end of season 4.

For me, Season 4 was the huge departure. Season 1-2 the story was confined to just the passengers on flight 815 with a little hint of other people one th island. Still, the scope of the story was almost exclusively limited to the island. Each character felt important, each life mattered for the most part.....getting off the island was central.......


Season 3 made the story a little bit bigger in that it introduced another group, but the scope was still limited very much to the island with only a few hints that the story was bigger than the island.

Season 4 plunged us headlong into a story that was world-wide in scope and impact and suddenly characters were joining the main group and leaving the main group and the story was not even nearly as close to character centric as it was in Seasons 1-3.

Season 4 is when we started caring more about the story, the island and the big picture more than we did the characters and their stories as much.

Season 6 has attempted to return us a bit to that focus with the sideways stories but that's only partially working as the scope is now not only world-wide, but multi-reality..........

We've went from very personal, close-up character driven drama in Seasons 1-3 to huge, world changing story-telling in Season 4 and while I've enjoyed all of it to one degree or another, the feel has definitely changed.

 

[Danny99]

I really think that once they were done with the Others storyline (basically around the time they killed off MC Gainey), they said, well what now?

It's sort've like SG-1. They killed off all the Goa'uld and said now what and then created the Ori. It just feels like two different storylines, held together by the same characters and settings.

 

[gh4chiefs]

Last week I commented how it felt like 2 different stories. One with Jacob vs MIB, and another with time travel/alternate reality/Desmond stuff. Upon further reflection, I see even more facets to the story. The island and it's weird electromagnetic/apparent healing properties, the dead people Hurley keeps seeing, etc. And I can't even imagine how they are going to tie these together to finish the story. Or for that matter, how much of this are they just going to leave hanging. For example if what we saw last night was the actual final explanation for the whispers, then wow what an anticlimatic reveal.

 

[Starbreaker]

I like the show, and I am not going to complain about it, but it's definitely quite a different show than it was the first three inning. They realized they had to get out of their comfort zone of meaningless flashbacks to stall for time.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Does anybody else think the series feels kinda "off" now?

Not at all.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

I feel like its become a show that's gathered pieces from other genres of drama, science fiction, mythology, etc and some how combined it into one thing. And, like everything else, its subjective. Personally, I've always enjoyed non-linear storytelling, so this is right up my alley.