There have been a lot of excellent episodes of Lost during this final season. Last night’s wasn’t one of them. Read the full post.
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I wanted to love it, I did. But I just couldn’t. I agree with you, Ken, the dialog was too precious, the acting was stilted, especially the tweens. It was disappointing, and added as many questions as it so feebly answered. But like some of the prior posters, I am willing to give it a Pass grade until I see the rest of the series.
did you mean pretentious song? not sure portentous is what you meant. or was there some punniness going on to get the meaning of portent along with the negative connotations ascribed to pretentious.
In terms of providing background and mythology information as well as “answers”, it was good. As a standalone, it was a snoozer, I found myself wanting to fast forward on many occasions.
Agree verbatim. Nothing to add. I love the show, but last night was awful.
“Pellegrino has rendered Jacob as more of a pious simp than a sturdy conveyor of Lost wisdom.”
Well we found out that actually knowns nothing about anything last night. He has no answers to give. I just think it’s ironic that Darlton recently bashed George Lucas on their podcast, yet this episode had all of the shortcomings of the Phantom Menace. Not as easy as it looks boys??
I totally agree….worst episode of the season behind what kate does. Suprising this episode fell so flat since it was written by darlton. Next two weeks better blow our minds…
completely agree! lame lame lame lame lame
umm… an entire episode devoted to answering questions to a show that never answers questions. and you people are complaining?
perhaps you should be watching gossip girl instead. i hear it’s much more satisfying.
Here’s the problem. Not only did the episode present more questions than answers, the answers the episode provided were shoddily done at best, horribly executed at worst. That’s not to mention this all unfolded like bad fantasy genre fan fiction.
It wasn’t satisfying, because it was far off the mark from Lost’s usual quality.
Frankly, I think everyone is being a bit too hard on the writers. This was always going to be a hard episode to realize. I am happy that they did such a great job with “Ab Aeterno,” which could easily have been a disaster, and I agree that they didn’t quite bring “Across the Sea” off. I feel the same way about “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” It’s a bit disappointing and not Rowling’s best work in the series. Maybe it really is the journey, not the arrival, that matters the most. Maybe, with Jacob and the MIB, less is more. (I like both Pellegrino and Welliver in the roles.)
Harsh, but I get it. I think we are all coming to terms with the fact that all our questions will never be answered. I feel that this is appropriate, as with all great works of art and literature, we never truly know all the answers and we never will.
It was like the Lost version of Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles”. M’n F’n Magic! It’s all around us!
Agreed – and for an episode that “talky,” it should have answered a lot more questions. It didn’t. What that means is that the last three-and-a-half hours will have to spend a lot of time answering those questions rather than focusing on wrapping up the characters’ storylines. I am now VERY worried that there will be an unsatisfying ending. This season really needed to be a full 22 or 24 episodes. Shame on the producers for not realizing that.
Actually, the season needed to skip the temple BS and we would have been fine. The pacing of this season has been awful and has set us up for a total infodump of a finale. I still have faith, but it’s wavering.
DISAGREE – on both counts … the episode and the song, apparently you are not a Doors fan, otherwise you would get that “The End” is a perfect song and not because you think its bloated.
Not the all-time best episode that you’d expect, but not at all a stinker. BTW, Allison Janney’s character was not a “step-mother.” She was an adoptive mother. Duh.
I don’t know if I will ever shake the feeling that they have dismissed 90% of everything we’ve been asked to invest in. Dropped Eko, dropped Hanso, the whole Pearl thing is useless now – very let down by the endgame.
Not to mention that after all that Dharma hubbub we never learned too much about them. How did they find the island? What were they planning to do with it? Etc…
Who were “The Others” and how did they get to the island? Why was Walt special?
Darlton has not dismissed a lot of what you are asking about;
The actor that played Eko asked to be removed from the show and frankly his story didn’t seem like it had much more to tell us
Hanso- you mean Alvar Hanso who although isn’t a major player (more periphery, off-season game related) we have learned the history of his family (Magnus Hanso- captain of the Black Rock) as well as the fact that he monetarily supported the DI
“the whole Pearl thing is useless now” the Pearl Station? What other uses would you have had for it? It was a DI Station that observed other stations… what else could you want to know about a not-very-important DI Station?
“Dharma hubbub”- they found the island by way of the Lamp Post Station, they planned on exploring it’s unique properties to benefit mankind, etc…
“The Others”- they were a constantly rotating group of people likely brought to the island by Jacob to act as defenders of the island as well as be evaluated to see whether or not they would prove to be “good” as hypothesized by Jacob or if they might be candidate to replace Jacob
“Walt”- Walt is special, obviously, what the root of or limits of that specialness are actually has not been addressed. The current consensus is that after season 5′s “Life & Death of Jeremy Bentham” we the audience are supposed to let him go and be a normal kid (which is what we see him doing). But who knows, we might get more, but it’s unlikely.