I'm currently at the point where Jack, Locke, Sawyer and Kate formally meet the others. You might know this as the point where Hurley decides to romantically pursue Libby. This tangent angered me beyond words. I'm sorry, but he was gross. Then again, I've never gotten the appeal of Hurley. Heck, that's not even his real name. He's not funny and brings nothing to the island. They should have eaten him on the first night.
But back to reality, before we lose gravity, this season has been too drawn out and meandered aimlessly so far.
It began with the three episode standoff in the hatch that seemed like it would never end. That was particularly bad, especially since the episode began so promisingly with Desmond's perspective inside the hatch. Honestly, I was super jazzed watching that. Too bad it all fell apart.
Mr. Echo is a nice addition, but Anna Lucia was too much. She's too big of a personality to join the cast aways and not immediately affect the dynamic. They put her off to the side after the shooting of Shannon (another annoyance), but I don't buy it. She would have gotten back into the swing of things almost immediately, but instead she becomes a regular Steve or Scott (that's a running joke from season one).
It was good that they got rid of Shannon. Unfortunately I thought the events leading up to her death were unnecessary. I still don't buy her and Sayid together, and the whole affair was superfluous to the story. She needed to die though, since she was basically a shell of herself in the aftermath of Boone, which is bad considering she never brought anything to the table when he was living either.
I can understand why viewers abandoned the show at this point. The airing of the episodes is awkward with weird breaks, but more importantly is the fact that the story jumps everywhere at once. The writers gave viewers too much rope, and some of us got hung. Even I'm scrambling with all of it and I'm an extreme LOST devotee.
The problem stems from the multiple storylines, which isn't a problem, except when they're pushing them all at once. There is just too much going on.
I think they should have kept the rafters out of the story all together in season two until Shannon gets shot. IT would have worked perfectly. Think about it...
Open the season and you don't know what's going on with them, but instead you get to focus on the hatch. Then you end an episode with Shannon getting killed and come back to the rafters, maybe intersperse it with Sun missing Jin, Kate missing Sawyer and some annoying Charlie and Claire throwaway story.
Then have them get to the point where they almost shoot Shannon, and then give us some of the "Tailies" back story. What do you think?
That's it for now. Going to shut up and watch.
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