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| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 10/19/2012 : 14:29:10
And here's my quick opinion of the show. After this spoiler space:
The first three seasons are amazing, I kept watching disc after disc to see what would happen next. Suspenseful, mysterious, funny...it was great!
The fourth season was a sudden drop in quality, though. I didn't care about the freighter and didn't need Michael to return and while there were some good moments, the story plodded.
The fifth season slowly picked up, I loved anything to do with the Dharma Initiative, so having them actually be a part of it was great. I would've enjoyed them getting more in-depth with the Initiative and even changing the past but, it was still pretty entertaining.
The sixth season was strange; I missed the real Locke being on the Island and the Smoke Monster wasn't as good a villain as early Ben Linus. I think they wasted Charles Widmore's character (I had an epiphany when Jacob visited me off the Island...off camera. Bang.) and it was getting a bit ridiculous how no one could give a straight answer to anything, nor why people wouldn't come out and ask the Others at the Temple:
What the hell's your deal?
This is already going on longer than I'd intended.
I don't think the show lived up to the potential of the first three seasons and I was massively disappointed with the alternate post-life spiritual construct that ate up half of the last season.
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| Arm Arm Arm |
Posted - 10/20/2012 : 11:03:04
Wow Denis, that's kind of funny. I've seen less Alias than you, but I did see the conclusion.
I don't understand why they went in that direction for the sixth season. We already got to watch and know the characters' lives, I don't want to see Locke in a wheelchair again. If that wasn't bad enough, then there's the realization that none of it matters. Jack has a son but suddenly he's in the church having his reunion and who cares?
The stuff with the magical pool of water and the magical cork was uninspired.
It's really strange because the first three seaons have such a good flow, with an increasing sense of menace and wonder. The producers had the deal with the network for three more seasons, so they should've been able to come up with a better ending then...they're all dead and this is some after-life waiting area!
Jeez, half the last season is about that crap. I think they really blew it by not having Ben Linus be more of a villain; humanize him a bit, sure, but c'mon...he earns redemption but Michael is punished and ends up a ghost on the Island or something.
Ehh.
But those first three seasons, some of the most intense serialized storytelling ever. I think maybe they raced through too much plot too soon with the Others in the third season and didn't know where to go so everything meandered.
The guy at the Temple was incongruent with Ben Linus; it actually seemed like two different groups of Others. I really thought the writers knew what they were doing when Sawyer killed Locke's Dad. That was a great pay-off. Too bad they didn't deliver something similar for the end.
I didn't need every question answered but a story that was more interesting and paid off emotionally, not just by showing characters I cared about having a reunion in a church. Sure, it's great to see them together but it's not dramatically satisfying and really does render everything they went through seem meaningless.
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| vilainde |
Posted - 10/20/2012 : 10:26:23
Another series that I stopped watching way too long into. I think I stopped at the beginning of season 5. I'm not a fan of TV series, so I thought that one was pretty good but I didn't really care going further. Mainly I loved the first seasons when you would keep wondering what the rational explanation was, and then I lost (ha!) interest when I realized that there wasn't any. There was just a fucking smoke monster. So I thought fuck it, if you're doing a supernatural series then there's no point cause you can just write anything in the scenario and just don't give a shit about consistency.
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The worst I did was with Alias, I watched all of it except the last 2 episodes. I think I downloaded an episode that wouldn't play and I got too lazy to do it again, so I spent like 2000 hours watching the series and I have no idea how it all ends. Whatever, I was just watching it for Garner anyway.
Denis
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Posted - 10/20/2012 : 08:44:43
I agree. I believe the fourth season was post-writers' strike and it was never the same.
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Posted - 10/20/2012 : 06:13:04
The 6th season of lost reminds me of when I used to write stories in school, and would get half through and give up because I couldn't think of a good way to end the story, so I would just end it as though it the character in the story wakes up to find it was all a dream, like in the 9th season of Dallas.
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