Awhile back, Cindy and I spent several weeks watching Lost Season One via Netflix. We enjoyed it enough to rent Season Two as soon as it was available, watching the entire season in a matter of days.
In a way, Season One is like a prologue for Season Two. Sure, a lot happens in Season One: the crash, of course, and all the weird things going on, but most of Season One shows us who these characters are (and were) thorough backstory.
Without giving anything away, the stakes are raised big-time in Season Two. This season is (for the most part) fast-paced, exciting, intriguing and addictive. But there are a few factors that bring cause for concern:
Sometimes the character flashbacks seem to work against themselves. Much of the backstory provides essential information on why the characters act (or should act) the way they do. But that's part of the problem. We see what these characters are about, then back on the island, their behavior is sometimes inconsistent with what we've learned about them in the flashback. Sure, their whole lives have been turned around since the crash, but people will certainly still carry around their baggage. For instance (again, without giving too much away for those who haven't seen the show), we learn that there's something in Kate's past that makes a man like Sawyer not only a big turn-off, but downright odious. Yet she sure spends a lot of time with him. You can see other inconsistencies with other characters as well.
Certain characters appear in deus ex machina fashion, only to disappear after serving their purpose to get the main characters where they need to go for that particular plot point.
I have some other minor issues, but my main concern is that the writers/producers of the show will never be able to tie all the loose ends together. There's an awful lot to be explained at the end of Season Two and I just have to hope that Lost is not jerking our chains at the end of the season just to say "Gotcha!"
We shall see. Season Three begins in two days.
Which brings up another point that bothers me.
When Season Three does start in two days, it's only going to run for six weeks, followed by a thirteen-week break, after which the season will conclude. Talk about jerking your chain....
But again, I'm willing to go along.
For now....
3 comments:
You'll run out of patience when you find out that Vaughn was married and joined the Covenant while Sidney was unconscious and pregnant with Rimbaldi's love child. Oh, wait...
I thought that Sidney was a reincarnation of an Egyptian prophetess (there was a tiny Anubis head at the bottom of one of the manuscripts) who was married to one of Rimbaldi's ancestors (Ramses-baldi, I think) before she got anmesia during a time-travel episode in which she kept Edith Keeler from dying in a street accident, just before Dr. McCoy could save her....wait...that's not right... Man, now I'm all mixed up.
You've both got it wrong. They're going to wake up and find themselves in a forest near a large sawmill in the town of Twin Peaks...
Dr. Phil
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