Subj : Lost
To   : All
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Wed May 25 2005 11:50 pm

Well, Early in the final episode, I awarded Lost the Creme-de-la-Creme 
award, for blowing up that bigmouth arsehole who appeared out of nowhere 
an episode or two ago.  I guess I should have realised from early that he 
was being groomed to be cannon fodder.  Well done -- I was saying to 
myself "Shaddup!  I wish that dynamite you are holding would blow YOU 
up..." when, !BOOM!

But I must say I was disapointed with the overall finish.  I *knew* that 
they couldn't get off the island.  With the kind of popularity the show 
has generated, they *had* to arrange for a second season.  But surely they 
could have resolved SOME of the mystery surrounding the strange goings-on?

This semi-invisible thing that attacks in the forest... WTF?  Is it Arnie 
Schwarzenegger in a predator suit?  The deeeeeeep shaft under the hatch: 
good cliff-hanger material, but couldn't they have given us *something* to 
hold on to?  A hammer'n'sickle (or alien lettering) on the inside of the 
hatch or something?  The guys who show up on a tiny little boat in the 
middle of the ocean and snatch the boy: *no* indication as to what it's 
all about?

These people are making the story up as they go along sticking to some 
plot-line.  But in fact it appears they don't actually *have* a plot-line, 
and are just concealing this from the viewers by throwing weirdness after 
weirdness.  I've pointed at "The Prisoner" before.  That was a great show 
that shot itself in the foot because nothing ever made sense.  They made 
weirdness their primary goal and as a result people began to lose 
interest.  Far from trying to figure out what was going on from all the 
clues, people realised there WERE no clues, and stopped following along.  
You could skip half a dozen episodes and you would still understand as 
much as everyone else.

Okay, so you want to have a second season, so you give us something big to 
speculate about, while leaving enough inexplicable strings that a new 
season could be woven from them.  But you gotta give us SOMETHING!

Say the radar detects a vessel approaching *from*the*island*.  It kidnaps 
the boy, dammages the raft, and and heads *back* to the island.  So they 
have to return because they want to rescue the kid and because the raft is 
sinking anyway.  Meanwhile, back at the ranch, they blow the hatch and 
start down the tunnel.  So if the kidnappers vessel were a WW-II German 
U-Boat and at the entrance to the tunnel they find swastikas, it lets 
everyone argue about what it all means from now until Season Two starts.  
As it stands now, nothing has been resolved, and there was no "conclusion" 
in the episode.


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