Lost Finale
Posted on 26 May 2005
The Lost finale wasn’t too bad. Still too much exposition, but a “red-shirt” got blown up by unstable dynamite and some Deliverance-looking guys stole the annoying kid from the annoying dad. And we got a look at the T-Rex (although it looked a lot more like sentient swamp gas than any dinosaur I’ve ever seen.) For cliff-hangers we’ve got several guys floating out in the ocean without a boat and several more huddled around a hole in the ground that goes…somewhere. Consider this the series’ way of saying “Thank you very much, see you in 4 months.” Now we get a summer of re-runs.
Oh yeah, Britney won last night.
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As far as season finales go, I agree, Lost wasn’t too bad.
The problem Lost has now is that the payoff for the over-hyped dramatic tension drawn out through the series has to be big, or interest will drop off. Constant cliff-hangers are a crutch; you can’t use them constantly. And when you do, you have to make the resolution worthy of the annoyance the cliff-hanger causes.
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 had better mean something, and there had damned well better be something amazing at the bottom of that hatch.
I just hope we’re not heading towards a “Twin Peaks” type of deal. Where you get so much mythology and mystery that there is no way to resolve it to anyone’s satisfaction (and the network ends up cancelling you before you can even try.)
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