insertnamehere wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:Golden wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:I do agree that the Swan Station plot was pretty awesome. Daisy and I just rewatched LOST (after I kept saying no for years because I didn't want to re-confront the finale, lol) and I'd now rank the seasons something like...
4 > second half of 3 > 2 > 5 > 6 > 1 > first half of 3
So close to mine. Probably everything except not having 2 first.
And I would call 'second half of 3' everything from Tricia Tanaka on. I think that's where it turned.
What can I say? I just love everything about Season 4. It was perfect.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Season 4 was the only, IMO consistently good season. The rest all had parts that didn't really work. In Season 4, however, the flashforwards were awesome, the chopper crew were awesome, (although a little underserved by future seasons) hell, I even loved the boat. I honestly would have preferred a decreased episode order for most of the other seasons. I feel cutting down 4 or 5 episodes per season, maybe a bit more from the first couple, would have really helped out the show, even if we learned a bit less about the castaways. True, the meandering ways of those early seasons got us S.O.S. and Expose, but it also got us a hell of a lot more tedious repetitive character drama that filled time as we waited for either the
really interesting characters to get screentime, or for the
actual plot to progress.
The other Lost-based hill that I will die upon is that the final season should have had absolutely zero flashes, backwards, forwards, sideways, or otherwise. It would've allowed for the Temple to actually be interesting, (imagine if the castaways were there for 2 action-packed episodes instead of like, 5 interminable ones) for characters like Ilana to both serve a purpose and be disposed of properly instead of spontaneously exploding into irrelevance once they were no longer necessary to progress the plot, for the entire Jacob Vs. MiB plotline to be better fleshed out, and for the ending to feel like it mattered more.
Instead, they wanted a "twist".
And everyone overreacted.
