Previously...on LOST!

[OumaFan]

I missed a couple weeks in a row but am catching up now. For most of this season I've been forcing myself to watch, not interested really as I thought the first five episodes or so were for the most part shit but just watched sundown, the sixth episode, the Sayid one, and thought it was pretty damn good actually. This could be building towards an interesting ending.

[OumaFan]

Well, I caught up tonight, the seventh episode, the Ben one, was pretty good although I don't like this new pathetic Ben. But the new episode that came on tonight was pretty much horseshit. Boring, and nothing big or shocking happened. So Widmore's there, we knew that. Ugly Claire tries to kill Kate, saw that coming. And we find out a little more about the man in black/locke. He had Mommy issues. Oh for fuck's sake.

This alternate shit has to be going somewhere but right now its just fucking dull. One thing I think their making pretty clear is overall people's lives would have been better without Jacob pushing them along. Plays into my idea that Jacob maybe isn't really good or altogether good. But fake Locke doesn't seem like an angel either.

[OumaFan]

One thing I thought was interesting from the seventh episode, and Richard stuff was why it was good pretty much, was Richard talking about how his not aging or immortality, whatever was given by Jacob and it was cause he "touched" him. Jacob touched all the candidates so now are they immortal or something?

[OumaFan]

well maybe it wasn't that bad, at least Sawyer is trying to fuck people over.

[AdamGB]

They've all been good episodes in themselves... but come on!... it's the last fucking season! time to move it along and start answering some fucking questions... they still just seem to be adding more than they answer.

[Steelie]

It's just ridiculous now, it's quite obviously not nearly as clever an ending (or indeed story) as everyone thought it was and for that I loathe it but simply have to see it through given the hours I've put in to date.

[RP33]

I've loved this season so far. This past weeks episode, the sawyer centric one, was great. Things seem to start progressing, and there was no introduction of a character who you know knows a ton of shit and then they die, or they don't say anything. We know why widemores there, and finally there are no more secrets developing. hopefully we start to get answers and make sense of everything, now.

I don't think the altnernate reality is shit, but i do think it takes up too much of the episode and what we really want to see, but i can see how it makes sense to develop those things. Each of the characters are deviating from what they became on the island, and possibly before the plane crash. Recently, we saw that Sawyer became a cop and was using his con stuff to his advantage to catch other cons. Previously we saw Ben save his dads life by giving him oxygen vs killing him.

but i still can't stop thinking about the ending. Either the alternate reality (if the plane didn't crash) is the 'truth' and everything we watched over the years is just useless OR the alternate reality isn't really whta turns out to happen and half of each episode of this season was wasted. I don't see any other option.