Does anybody else think the series feels kinda "off" now?
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For me, season 4 was the show's high point and it's still my favorite season. Opening with the revelation that only six people got off the island and then showing us in the flashforwards that they were keeping their experiences a secret was an exciting development for Lost. I was glued to the set every week wanting to see how the on-island events led up to that. In fact, I don't think I'm looking forward to the series finale as much as I was looking forward to the season 4 finale back in 2008.
Yeah......it's interesting cause she had a great arc in Season 3 and a pretty good arc in Season 5 but Season 4 she just kind of tagged along. Of course, she's in a pretty nice bathing suit in The Other Woman which almost by itself makes up for the lack of her arc in the season.........
For me, from best to worst it would be:
1
5
3 (could be a lot lower due to the 6-8 episodes where they are trapped in new Otherton)
6
2
4
But Season 6 my shoot up that list pretty high depending on where it goes.........
I'd say the middle of Season 2 was the worst and the only time I've been actually bored with the show. Seasons 3 4 and 5 are pretty much a blur to me, I'll need to watch them again to sort them out.
I have 3 arcs I really didn't care much for.
- The "Tailies" arc (especially the ones that feature Ana Lucia - can't stand her) in Season 2 with the exception of Mr. Eko and Libby.
- The "Poor Jack/Kate/Sawyer" being held prisoner by the others arc in Season 3
- The Frieghter arc in Season 4.
Checkmate
Commodore
I've actually become quite bored with the series now. It's changed way too much from what originally intrigued me, and is focusing on all the worst aspects of the show. Hell, even being "candidates," all of the Losties are so much baggage to the real story, which revolves squarely around Jacob, Smokey, and to a lesser degree, Desmond. Everyone else is just there, and all the time invested in them is pretty much wasted.
I'll finish watching it, but my enthusiasm for it has all but faded.
I'll finish watching it, but my enthusiasm for it has all but faded.
Each season of Lost has a distinctly different flavor to it (probably moreso than any other series I can think of). If you were in the middle of watching season 1 for the first time and suddenly saw a season 2 episode with the hatch, and people pushing the button, and the timers, you would have been totally thinking "WTF?". I like that aspect of the show.
If there's one thing about season 6 that irks me a bit, it's that many of the characters we've come to know and love seem to be COMPLETELY different people this season. Locke isn't Locke and he was always a driving force for the series. Sayid... I'm not sure what exactly is up with him but he's messed up. Claire is absolutely looney tunes. These changes, while interesting, all occured very abruptly and there doesn't seem to be a trace of the people we knew and love in them at all. In some ways, the flash-sideways are the only place we see more of a hint of the original characters, but even there many are quite different. I'm trusting that things will all be brought back together in the end.
I agree with the posts above as well that there has also seemed to be a big change in focus away from our characters to the Jacob vs Smokie war. Our characters have gone from being the centerpiece to being pawns of the game. At least this storyline has been building for a while, but it just all seems like an unfortunate way for us to spend our last hours with these characters.
If there's one thing about season 6 that irks me a bit, it's that many of the characters we've come to know and love seem to be COMPLETELY different people this season. Locke isn't Locke and he was always a driving force for the series. Sayid... I'm not sure what exactly is up with him but he's messed up. Claire is absolutely looney tunes. These changes, while interesting, all occured very abruptly and there doesn't seem to be a trace of the people we knew and love in them at all. In some ways, the flash-sideways are the only place we see more of a hint of the original characters, but even there many are quite different. I'm trusting that things will all be brought back together in the end.
I agree with the posts above as well that there has also seemed to be a big change in focus away from our characters to the Jacob vs Smokie war. Our characters have gone from being the centerpiece to being pawns of the game. At least this storyline has been building for a while, but it just all seems like an unfortunate way for us to spend our last hours with these characters.
Yeah, spot on Elemental.
This season has been so frustrating, I think mainly because there's so little time left to resolve the million unanswered questions they've left hanging over the past six years, and we're wasting precious screentime on the "flash-sideways" universe which nobody (at our place anyway) could care less about!
The Temple episodes were a complete waste of time. and the Losties seem to be being artificially split so we can have a war...very predictable stuff so far
The show is going out with a whimper for mine, but hey, expectations were always going to be hard to meet for a show as addictive and mostly excellent as this has been.
No matter what hppens, I'll be sad when it ends, I'll miss my weekly mindfuck.
This season has been so frustrating, I think mainly because there's so little time left to resolve the million unanswered questions they've left hanging over the past six years, and we're wasting precious screentime on the "flash-sideways" universe which nobody (at our place anyway) could care less about!
The Temple episodes were a complete waste of time. and the Losties seem to be being artificially split so we can have a war...very predictable stuff so far
The show is going out with a whimper for mine, but hey, expectations were always going to be hard to meet for a show as addictive and mostly excellent as this has been.
No matter what hppens, I'll be sad when it ends, I'll miss my weekly mindfuck.
I've found this season to be very low key, but still enjoyable. It feels like it's been ramping up since the Richard Alpert episode.
In retrospect, I'd have liked it if they'd introduced the Desmond element into the alternate universe much earlier, I think the Jin/Sun, Sayid and Sawyer episodes would have benefited from a scene with Desmond pointing them toward their destiny. Even as the full picture becomes clear, rewatching some of that alternate timeline stuff is going to feel pointless to me.
In retrospect, I'd have liked it if they'd introduced the Desmond element into the alternate universe much earlier, I think the Jin/Sun, Sayid and Sawyer episodes would have benefited from a scene with Desmond pointing them toward their destiny. Even as the full picture becomes clear, rewatching some of that alternate timeline stuff is going to feel pointless to me.
