The first half of season 4 is genius and I mean genius. I had really liked the
show up to that point but by the time the first half of season 4 was over, I
really thought they might pull off the greatest show in the history of science
fiction. Alas, they killed it and completely destroyed the entire legacy with
the second half of season 4.
B
--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: The End Of Lost
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 6:05 AM
Marian, IMO, the first two seasons of BG are all that you should see. It
fell apart after that.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:30 PM, marian_changling <md_moor...@yahoo. com> wrote:
I found it completely emotionally satisfying. The gave each character
arc an end.
I didn't care for the "light" at the end, but given the extended metaphor used
throughout the series, that would have been difficult to avoid. They tried to
keep the show out of the religious bucket, but that is difficult to do. I had
the same problem with the end of Connie Willis' novel "Passages". It is
difficult to be spiritual but not assign a religion.
In reading reviews after the show, a lot of reviewers did not get it. They
reverted to thinking that the whole thing was a dream or they were all dead.
My quibbles were exactly the ambiguity that would allow people to think that,
even though they explicitly stated that was not the case in the show. There
were a lot of heated arguments on abc.com on and lostipedia on just that topic.
*** SPOILER?****
Part of the problem is that Jack is ultimately the viewpoint character. It
"looked" like an ensemble show, but the end only works if you understand that
we don't see anything that Jack doesn't know. We don't know what happened on
the island after he dies. Hurley and Ben continue their stewardship and later
die themselves but we see none of that. So it's initially confusing to see
them at the gathering with the others.
All in all, better than Battlestar for me. I would love to go back and see
every episode now. I wouldn't do that for Battlestar. (I never saw the 1st two
years of BG and still feel no need to see them.)
--
"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
