Land of the 4 toed giants!

So the big season finale came and went.  As predicted some things were explained, but not fully, and more questions were left.  How long do they think they can drag this thing out?  Some of the things that happened were almost laughable.  When the giant 4 toed foot statue was discovered, I though “this has to be their attempt at humor.  But then I realized that’s one of the big problems with the show is that it takes itself too seriously.  When shows do that, eventually they become a mockery of themselves.  Another funny part was when Desmond followed the other hatch dude and found his sailboat.  The amateurish CGI of the boat in the cove looked like something out of a 70’s sci-fi show!  Not to mention the psychedelic sky effect when the hatch blew up. Oh man, it was painful to watch almost.  The big cliffhanger at the end wasn’t even really that big.  As soon as the guy reached for the yellow phone, everyone knew they were calling Desmond’s rich girlfriend.  The whole “you can find anyone when you have money like I do” pretty much gave that one away. 

A couple of obvious predictions for next season: 

Of course Walt will turn the boat around and go back to help his friends.  John will miraculously survive the hatch meltdown.  Our beloved trio will escape the others with the help of Rambo Sayid.  That’s about all I can think of for now.  Yeah, a summer without Lost!

Written by on May 25th, 2006 with 8 comments.
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The Home Theater Hatch

I have to take back what I said in one of my original “10 reasons why Lost sucks”, but only a little bit.  Something actually did happen.  But it mostly just lead to more questions as usual.  Two people were shot.  Yeah! Action at last!  This was a good thing because 1.  The Anna-whatever chick had run out of people to scowl at, and really needed to die.  2.  No one could ever buy that the other chick would go for Hurley, so she needed to die too.  The other plot in the episode was Echo and John setting of on a little camping trip to find the question mark, which brings us to a cheap trick that they pulled with the previews last week. They showed the clip of Echo falling off a cliff, only to have it turn out to be a dream.  This is not the first time the show has used this tactic to get viewers, and frankly, it sucks.  Anyways, they end up finding another hatch, and this time it leads to a pimped out home theater room with multiple screen and even a sweet VCR.  Those Dharma dudes knew how to have fun!  They even had the vacuum tubes, like at the bank drive through.  The episode ends with Hurley’s chick dying after trying in vain to identify her killer, only to have the good doctor say “no he’s fine”.  So Michael’s plan to stir everyone up by killing 2 people and letting the “other” go seems to be working.  At least something happened. 

Written by on May 11th, 2006 with 5 comments.
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