Since I never posted about the episode from last week, I thought I’d better cover it to get it off my chest.
There has been a lot of buzz about the disappointment around the preview’s claim of “three big secrets revealed”, and the producers (rightfully, to some degree) blaming the network for building up those expectations unrealistically. So, I’ll give them credit on that one; I know the scenes with Cindy and the kids would have been WAY, WAY better if we didn’t know they were coming.
HOWEVER, my main gripe is not related to that. Rather, it’s the fact that these people (especially Jack) absolutely refuse to ask the questions that any normal person would ask.
- Sawyer lets Carl run off without getting any useful info out of him : They might be able to redeem this one later by revealing that Sawyer actually did grill him for info off camera, and he’s just not sharing that info with anyone else, since that’s the kind of guy Sawyer is. Even if this isn’t the case, I could give him half credit for letting him go just to provide himself with an excuse for not being able to go back after Jack
- Jack’s conversations with people like Tom and Cindy : This is the part that really burns me. How the hell do you see Cindy walk up to your cage like that and not ask her to explain what the heck has been going on, since she obviously knows? Or when Jack has been standing around chatting with Tom and Juliet, he basically makes no attempt to get any significant info out of them.
I’d even be OK if the characters would ask the questions and they evaded actually answering them, because I understand that it’s a mystery and they can’t be revealing everything all at once, but to not even see the questions being asked is a bit hard to swallow.
In stark contrast, this week’s Heroes episode was amazing. There’s a show where you’ve got the mystery aspects, but the characters want answers and go after them until they find them.
I am really trying to remain a loyal LOST fan but they are making it difficult! I didn’t even mind the 10 o’clock time change but now I’m wondering if it’s even worth staying up for anymore. I will admit that last nights episode was better than last weeks forgetable disappointment. But now there are WAY too many loose ends and by the time they even start to throw us a bone, we are almost not even interested in it anymore and are awaiting a new bone. I do like that Rousseau is being brought in to get Alex (and of course help save Jack) but I’m not too fond of changing Charlie to such a depressing character. And what about Claire (I almost still remember her) has she just faded away? Are we EVER going to find out where Walt and Michael went? Rather than bringing in new (and much less interesting) characters lets stick with the old ones. Let’s continue seeing their flashbacks (if it is RELAVENT) but make sure that we find out at least ONE new and interesting (key word here is INTERESTING) fact a week!