I think Buffy should've ended a season or two early -- too much of the seventh season was spinning of the wheels, running out the clock. Which I think is a great deal of what I didn't like about last night's episode, either -- a lot of walking, a lot of gabbing about things we already knew, had explored in detail. (Last season's Lockebox was eerily similar; everyone obligingly referring to Locke as "Jeremy Bentham" was just too precious in an attempt to string the viewer along.)
I think the high water mark of the series is going to be the season three finale -- the "it was a flashforward all along" reveal was unexpected and opened so many doors and so much raw possibility that it's just too hard to follow up. Given that the Losties have had three years to ponder the intricacies of time travel and causality, has it honestly occurred to none of them (except Miles, last survivor of a doomed freighter) in all that time that they could have been enabling the incident all along? I could buy that only if they were all Kate, who seems to have fallen out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
I think what I was hoping for was at least a smidgen of a clue as to where the endgame was taking us instead of just a fade to white. Jacob's been killed (?), Esau (can we call him anything else?) wins, the loss of Chang's arm and Radinsky's convenient escape makes it pretty clear the timeline's still intact.... And that's about all I got. Not even a dramatic turn for not!Locke. I'll be interested in seeing what they do in 2010, but I'm not on the edge of my seat by any means.
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Date: 2009-05-14 02:39 pm (UTC)I think the high water mark of the series is going to be the season three finale -- the "it was a flashforward all along" reveal was unexpected and opened so many doors and so much raw possibility that it's just too hard to follow up. Given that the Losties have had three years to ponder the intricacies of time travel and causality, has it honestly occurred to none of them (except Miles, last survivor of a doomed freighter) in all that time that they could have been enabling the incident all along? I could buy that only if they were all Kate, who seems to have fallen out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
I think what I was hoping for was at least a smidgen of a clue as to where the endgame was taking us instead of just a fade to white. Jacob's been killed (?), Esau (can we call him anything else?) wins, the loss of Chang's arm and Radinsky's convenient escape makes it pretty clear the timeline's still intact.... And that's about all I got. Not even a dramatic turn for not!Locke. I'll be interested in seeing what they do in 2010, but I'm not on the edge of my seat by any means.