Comments on: LOST 5×16 & 5×17 “The Incident” Parts 1 & 2

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:56:08 +0000

I just finished watching the series on the weekend, and I have to side with Brady. Everything felt rushed, action-oriented, building to a final climax more like this was the very last episode!
I would have appreciated something more creative than an H-bomb as the focus/turning point of the entire show?

The main characters – seemed wishy-washy or decisive against the original grain of their characters; acting like teenagers, not adults. Or am I emotionally-challenged?
I never liked Locke but he seemed more interesting as this Schemer than ever before, so glad that this Locke isn’t supposed to be the real one. And did they kill off the only stand-up guy with a pair of balls?? I hope Sayid survives to show Jack and Sawyer the real Way of the Knife for being such pansies.

Hope the final season can redeem the last few (okay, season 5 wasn’t too bad). If I remember the show in 8.5 months, I’ll find out.

By: BG

BG — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:32:03 +0000

This review by Tim Goodman captures a lot of my misgivings about the episode. Though some things annoyed him more than they did me.

http://www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/blogs/tgoodman/detail?blogid=24&entry_id=40156

(remove the space between ‘.com’ and ‘/cgi-bin’ – spam filter won’t let me link directly)

Jason, I’m sure they put everything in for a reason – I just don’t think that the reason is necessarily unchanged by the time they get back to it or more than just a vague notion of usefulness.

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:26:06 +0000

I’d have to disagree with you on the VW van once being used just getting used all that time afterwards. Knowing that Damon and Carlton put everything in the show for a reason, to make the VW van the centerpiece of an entire ep, I am sure they had already known it would play future key roles in the show.

I never like the gunfights in the finales either.

By: BG

BG — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:42:46 +0000

Hey Brady,

Finally got around to watching this one, I have to totally agree with your criticisms of the Jack/Kate/Sawyer/Juliette scenes.

Other lesser annoyances, pretty lame/unnecessary gunfights, Ben’s easy manipulation was a little odd, I thought he’d put up a little more of a fight, be more demanding before being set off, the rose/bernard cameo was nice but the dialogue was pretty clunky.

Liked it though, left with a big what now? and the reveals were certainly interesting.

-b

P.S. Jason, RE attention to detail – I think you confuse cause and effect with regard to the VW van. Much more likely that once they had it in the can they decided to introduce it all over the place.