"Sundown" Live Commentary
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Yeah, ABC are being dicks. But it's just a promo. The episodes themselves are fine.
Kinda getting the same feel from the end of BSG, though. We've only got X number of episodes left, and the last on in particular just felt kinda wasted, like we're not really doing much more than moving pieces for later. Which is fine, but for a series that has had so many good singular episodes WHILE moving the plot, just feels like they're stalling until they get to the end and get to show their 2 hour Hail Mary attempt at trying to resolve the clusterfuck they've created.
I don't know about that. Lost has had a fairly important "Season Plot" to go with the overall plot. I think these episodes are laying that season plot's framework. In the end, the show is still about characters and their adventure, not the mysteries of the island (even if the island's mysteries are compelling).
To me, no show should be about one or the other exclusively. Shows that are all plot are boring, and shows that are all character are a waste of time. The perfect show is the right blend of both things.
I'd hate it if Lost ended like Voyager. The whole bit about it not being the destination but the journey is so awful.
In the case of Lost, they've definitely teased certain plot points enough that they need resolution. And I'm not talking about items like "What happened to Mikhail's eye?" or obscure things like "What happened to Isabel?" but the obvious things like "Why was Walt in the forest talking backwards?" Things that are so out there crazy like that really need to have some sort of explanation, otherwise it's just sensationalism to pull people into the show. It's like someone telling you, "I know a secret" and then not telling you. It's bad storytelling.
Does anyone really want the writers to blow their wad with answers early in the season so they got nothing big for the rest of the season?
Imagine if the whole series had been like Voyager. All six seasons would look just like season one. They spend six years with various plans to get off the island -- rafts, wormholes, technobabbly-named anomolies -- none of which work. Then, in the final episode, they get home! The end.
That seems like a false choice. It presupposes that the only thing interesting that can happen on the show is the search for answers. What I'd like is for them to reveal what's going on, and then spend the final episodes dealing with the fallout from the revelation. I'm not really keen on waiting until the last five minutes of the final episode to understand what's been going on for six years.
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