Why No Lost?

[Arnwyn]

Time travel? Time travel? You suck, Lost. But with that said, the first one wasn't half bad at all, second one was boring. Looks like it'll be a tolerable method of handling time travel (as tolerable as that can be).

I have a horrible feeling the majority of this entire season will be about the Six trying to just get to the island. (Boring!) Very glad they're looking to wipe out one of those 3 obnoxious island n00bs (and the especially annoying chick, too. Yay!). Now if they could get rid of all three of them, I'll be happy. (Just keep Faraday around long enough to explain everything - quickly, please - and then off him.)

Time travel still royally sucks, though. Period. Doesn't really surprise me Lost choose that bad direction.

 

[Krug]

While I still hate time travel as a plot device, at least it's not the sort that's controlled (or easily done so) like in Heroes. Still, I feel the show has wandered off and the main group of characters is losing my interest.

 

[Shayuri]

Lost almost lost me in Season 3, but I really liked Season 4. So far Season 5 seems to be living up to that, for me.

I have no particular beef with time travel in general...just with LAME time travel. So far, Lost's time travel doesn't seem to be lame. They use it smartly, to set up interesting puzzles.

There's still plenty of room for it all to fall apart at the end...but so far I'm still enjoying the ride.

 

[Felon]

I enjoyed the premiere episodes. I'm not crazy about time travel, since it's always presented as posing an immense danger and then it always winds up containing the deus ex machina that allows everything to turn out fine. However, seeing Sayed waste a guy with a dishwasher is just not something I'm likely to see if they'd stayed on the island.

And that bit with Neil complaining about fire...hilarious!

Oh, and that bit of advice Hugo got during his imaginary pullover: "Don't get arrested!" Busted a gut on that one, I did.

 

[Fast Learner]

Tonight's episode had bunches of fun time travel!

 

[Felon]

Tonight's episode had bunches of fun time travel!

Yeah, but not so many of the little character-defining moments that really make Lost for me.

I tell ya, Faraday's gotta be the most grizzled and haggard-looking nerd I've ever seen.

 

[Arnwyn]

The one great thing with how they're presenting time travel is that we are getting more answers, faster.

I'll choke down time travel if that's the payoff.

 

[Felon]

Last night ventured way too close to "you're your own father" paradox nonsense, with the Lostees becoming the bearers of knowledge to the rather clueless-looking Others. And the focus is heavily on characters that aren't that great to begin with. Juliet's still dull. The redhead hasn't had any real attention, so whatever's happening to her has little gravitas. Locke lost his coolness factor a long time ago, which is probably the saddest blow Lost has suffered. So for me, Sawyer and Desmond bore a heavy burden in terms of entertainment.

Who is the little Padme-looking soldier girl supposed to be?

 

[jaerdaph]

If you haven't seen it already:

Still makes me laugh.

 

[Grymar]

This season they really jumped from "sorta sci-fi/drama" to "deep heavy serious sci-fi" with the time travel stuff. After the first episode I told my wife that they are going to lose half of their audience and forever hook the other half.

I'm of the "hooked" half. Since they announced the end of the show next year, the episodes are focused and fast paced.

Lost has never been better, in my opinion.