Lost Season Finale
May. 27th, 2005 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteAnd so we watched the season finale of Lost. What a brilliant, entertaining and frustrating two hours it was.
Why frustrating?
Because 25 episodes later, we still don't know what the hell is going on!
Lost is one of the best TV shows to come along in ages. It has a great cast, ridiculously high production values for a TV show, strong scripts, great music. It has a premise that could have gone wrong so easily and hasn't.
Each episode built the tension well, and made us care about these strangers, one at a time. And when we to get to the finale, we see a perfectly paced double-length episode that is successfully built on everything that came before, and makes brilliant use of the flashback method we've been seen since the first episode. While much of what we saw was a shock, nothing was not set up before this. It was a great finale.
And yet, I worry that JJ Abrams and his team of writers has no idea where this is actually going. I worry that every mystery will only lead to another mystery. I worry that we will find ourselves running screaming into the night, ready to shoot someone as the mythology gets to dense.
And given how many people I know had rebelled against Abrams' Alias for its reportedly painful journey into confusion and faux-profundity, I think that I have reason to worry. Abrams is not Joss Whedon just yet, and there were days when even Joss made me wonder if he knew what was going on late in the Buffy Era.
So as much as I want to revel in the greatness that is Lost, Year One, I just am not ready to do that yet. Not till I see a sign that will get answers.
Or at least until the DVDs come out before Year Two launches.
Why frustrating?
Because 25 episodes later, we still don't know what the hell is going on!
Lost is one of the best TV shows to come along in ages. It has a great cast, ridiculously high production values for a TV show, strong scripts, great music. It has a premise that could have gone wrong so easily and hasn't.
Each episode built the tension well, and made us care about these strangers, one at a time. And when we to get to the finale, we see a perfectly paced double-length episode that is successfully built on everything that came before, and makes brilliant use of the flashback method we've been seen since the first episode. While much of what we saw was a shock, nothing was not set up before this. It was a great finale.
And yet, I worry that JJ Abrams and his team of writers has no idea where this is actually going. I worry that every mystery will only lead to another mystery. I worry that we will find ourselves running screaming into the night, ready to shoot someone as the mythology gets to dense.
And given how many people I know had rebelled against Abrams' Alias for its reportedly painful journey into confusion and faux-profundity, I think that I have reason to worry. Abrams is not Joss Whedon just yet, and there were days when even Joss made me wonder if he knew what was going on late in the Buffy Era.
So as much as I want to revel in the greatness that is Lost, Year One, I just am not ready to do that yet. Not till I see a sign that will get answers.
Or at least until the DVDs come out before Year Two launches.
