Season 2 of what I feel is the best written show on TV is in the books. All in all I enjoyed the season even though they had a few filler episodes especially after Michael killed Libby and Ana Lucia leading up to the finale. If I had to pick favorites from the season the first would have to be when Michael ran off to find Walt ending with a confrontation with The Others. The second would be the when Locke, Sayid, and Jack spent the entire show in the hatch trying to figure out what to do with Henry Gale because it featured some great dialogue. Also, the end of the episode when Gale was unmasked to be a fraud was a jaw dropping moment for me. Before I hit the finale here’s some other thoughts on the season.
-Things were much less supernatural this year aside from Eko coming face to face with the black smoke and Shannon seeing backward speaking Walt at the beginning of the season.
-I had a tough time reconciling Locke’s character this because he changed from this crafty all knowing shaman to having a childish sibling rivalry with Jack. I just can’t see him falling for the Gale trick. I assume we’re supposed to focus on his loss of faith, but I just don’t think it was done well
-Henry Gale Minnesota is an anagram for “See Another Man Lying.” Last year’s villain Ethan Rohm is an anagram for “Other Man” I did not find this myself
-And what’s up with Libby? We get two episodes each of Eko and Ana Lucia, one for Bernard, and no answers for the final Tailie except she did time with Hurley. I don’t know how they’ll do it, but I think we will get some valuable answers when they finally get around to it
I thought the finale set a good table in the first hour and they almost went with my Libby direction. So where are we? While the final scene didn’t make you jump out of your seat we basically find chaos all over the place. We have the potential of losing Michael, Walt, Eko, and Locke for next season not to mention whatever happens to the gang on the dock. Seeing as how the original script called for Jack to die in the pilot it would not surprise me if he goes, but I think it would be a mistake. Sayid’s way too crafty to not realize there’s a problem and will make the save. I also must commend the twist of Michael lying about where the trap would take place. And what’s up with Charlie refusing to tell Claire what happened in the hatch? He’s happy Locke’s dead? Seriously, he’s reached the point where I don’t care about his episodes. We also know why the plane crashed but why did it end up so far off course and I debunk that it could have been pulled there because none of the propaganda fake web sites (oceanicair.com) mention other plane crashes you would have to assume would happen.
All in all I commend Lost for not giving the song and dance routine of the X-Files which not only would flat out lie in it’s advertising, but dance around answers as it continued to introduce more questions. Sure, we don’t know everything, but we at least get closure on some issues while getting valuable insight on other matters.
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-Things were much less supernatural this year aside from Eko coming face to face with the black smoke and Shannon seeing backward speaking Walt at the beginning of the season.
-I had a tough time reconciling Locke’s character this because he changed from this crafty all knowing shaman to having a childish sibling rivalry with Jack. I just can’t see him falling for the Gale trick. I assume we’re supposed to focus on his loss of faith, but I just don’t think it was done well
-Henry Gale Minnesota is an anagram for “See Another Man Lying.” Last year’s villain Ethan Rohm is an anagram for “Other Man” I did not find this myself
-And what’s up with Libby? We get two episodes each of Eko and Ana Lucia, one for Bernard, and no answers for the final Tailie except she did time with Hurley. I don’t know how they’ll do it, but I think we will get some valuable answers when they finally get around to it
I thought the finale set a good table in the first hour and they almost went with my Libby direction. So where are we? While the final scene didn’t make you jump out of your seat we basically find chaos all over the place. We have the potential of losing Michael, Walt, Eko, and Locke for next season not to mention whatever happens to the gang on the dock. Seeing as how the original script called for Jack to die in the pilot it would not surprise me if he goes, but I think it would be a mistake. Sayid’s way too crafty to not realize there’s a problem and will make the save. I also must commend the twist of Michael lying about where the trap would take place. And what’s up with Charlie refusing to tell Claire what happened in the hatch? He’s happy Locke’s dead? Seriously, he’s reached the point where I don’t care about his episodes. We also know why the plane crashed but why did it end up so far off course and I debunk that it could have been pulled there because none of the propaganda fake web sites (oceanicair.com) mention other plane crashes you would have to assume would happen.
All in all I commend Lost for not giving the song and dance routine of the X-Files which not only would flat out lie in it’s advertising, but dance around answers as it continued to introduce more questions. Sure, we don’t know everything, but we at least get closure on some issues while getting valuable insight on other matters.
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I thought it was a great season as well, donny. though next year I hope they do less of the recap episodes. It might just be me, but I felt like there were 3-4 summarizing episodes that didn't really shed any new light. Regardless, other there "24", there really isn't a better show on TV.
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