If you want to know why I haven’t written the last two reviews and won’t write a full review this time, skip directly to the Ugly section(don’t worry, it won’t take you long to get there anyway).
The Good: I don’t know. It’s funny and interesting sometimes.
The Bad: Luckily for me, even the more die hard LOST fans are starting notice more of this stuff. I’ve also noticed that I come away feeling slightly dumber after every new episode. But that’s just me.
Purgatory: Everything until the final episode.
The Ugly: I have decided after much careless and distracted thinking that I will discontinue these reviews until the final episode has come and passed. Reason being: LOST hasn’t changed, and I feel like I’m repeating myself in every single review I write this season. It’s still suspenseful, it’s still mysterious, it’s still dramatic, the writing is still kind of iffy, and the “predictable by being unpredictable” principle is still badly visible. The upside: no time travel. The downside: the sideways universe, which is about as useful as snot. I made all my points last season and LOST has done a terrible job coming up with something new(period) to comment on. I suppose, since I always say that nothing is ever fully explored, LOST has more to offer than I’m seeing and I bet if I looked up the source material for the show and maybe did some sort of comparison thing, I could come up with more interesting things to talk about; but alas, I am one man, with one job, and one life, and thus don’t have too much time to delve into the “deeper mysteries” of LOST.* If you really want to dig that deep, just go to your local bookstore or online and look for the book(1).
Plus, LOST is coming an end, so let’s just enjoy it.
Ciao.
P.S. Lesson of revealing too much too soon: learned.
*By “deeper mysteries”, I mean the stuff that science fiction has been talking about since the 40’s that the mass public is only now becoming awa
References: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Philosophy-Reasons-Blackwell-Culture/dp/1405163151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269356778&sr=8-1
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