TV Talk: Lost
Nov. 2nd, 2006 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteHard not to say something about this one, I think...
The big news is that Mr. Eko is dead, killed by the Smoke Monster.
That's pretty much it for the Tailies (of them, only Bernard is still around, and not often). As deaths go, it wasn't implausible within the rules of the island, and it made the point about the Smoke Monster. But wouldn't it have made more sense to kill Mr. Eko in the big hatch explosion? Yes, we got a very good flashback and a few more good moments with Eko in the present, but in the end this was merely a death. It's a lucky thing that the island has a larger population than most cities, with new castaways rising from thin air, with the Others and the Hatchlings and who knows who else?
(As you can see, I really don't care for the offhand addition of new survivors.)
It's also a lucky thing that the rest of the show was really, really good. Locke. Hurley and Charlie. Sayid. And Jack, Juliet and Ben. The scenes with Jack, Juliet and Ben were amazing. As I've said before, Matthew Fox seems to do his best work when he has good actors and situations to play off. He's got that here.
But the ending, while not a total downer, is also not the kind of thing that makes me look ahead to the "fall finale" with great enthusiasm. I'm not sure that anything cause do that, though. We haven't really seen anything resembling a self-contained six-part miniseries. We've gotten more of the same. And while I still like more of the same, I think that the plan to divide the season this way was not thought out well. I'd bet that next year, the show doesn't return till after New Year's and goes straight through. Or that it divides more evenly.
We will see. Even if we don't see Eko again.
The big news is that Mr. Eko is dead, killed by the Smoke Monster.
That's pretty much it for the Tailies (of them, only Bernard is still around, and not often). As deaths go, it wasn't implausible within the rules of the island, and it made the point about the Smoke Monster. But wouldn't it have made more sense to kill Mr. Eko in the big hatch explosion? Yes, we got a very good flashback and a few more good moments with Eko in the present, but in the end this was merely a death. It's a lucky thing that the island has a larger population than most cities, with new castaways rising from thin air, with the Others and the Hatchlings and who knows who else?
(As you can see, I really don't care for the offhand addition of new survivors.)
It's also a lucky thing that the rest of the show was really, really good. Locke. Hurley and Charlie. Sayid. And Jack, Juliet and Ben. The scenes with Jack, Juliet and Ben were amazing. As I've said before, Matthew Fox seems to do his best work when he has good actors and situations to play off. He's got that here.
But the ending, while not a total downer, is also not the kind of thing that makes me look ahead to the "fall finale" with great enthusiasm. I'm not sure that anything cause do that, though. We haven't really seen anything resembling a self-contained six-part miniseries. We've gotten more of the same. And while I still like more of the same, I think that the plan to divide the season this way was not thought out well. I'd bet that next year, the show doesn't return till after New Year's and goes straight through. Or that it divides more evenly.
We will see. Even if we don't see Eko again.
