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.