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Lost; Season 5

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JediBendu:
Well see there's the problem that the writers and producers barely did anything to make us care about Charlotte. She was notorious for being a character that people either actively disliked or were ambivalent towards. At least in my circles. No one cared about Charlotte. No one cared when she died. No one had a reaction. Danielle even though there was little drama in the scene, was a death that people felt because people cared more about her character.

It's a problem, again in my opinion, of overall series plotting and a little bit of acting.

I only rate "Expose" higher cause, in my opinion, it at least works more as a stand-alone episode. But honestly, retrospect on this season may soften what I see right now as very glaring flaws of "This Place Is Death."

Shannon's death scene was dynamic, surprising, jarring, emotionally affecting. The image of Sayid holding her body in the rain and the look he gives Ana-Lucia is a pretty good moment in the show. It's not the buildup to the death that is important. As I'd say that Charlie's death was more effective for entirely different reasons than we had been told it was coming and were ready for it. Again, people loved Charlie. The scene again was fairly dynamic and visually affecting. It tied in to the larger drama. There was even more sadness coming in from his connection to Claire and the fact that he'd redeemed himself on the Island.

Charlotte was a glorified red shirt that Daniel was in love with, for some mysterious reason. It added stakes to the overarching plot of these first few episodes but it didn't resonate. Even Daniel's confession of love didn't help it that much in that area.

In my opinion.

Edit: And to clarify when I say it's a problem of series plotting. I'm not implying that their series plotting is bad. This was a stumbling block I feel was mostly brought on by the truncated season 4. I think Lost probably has the best series plotting on television right now.

Edit 2: I'm a little bit baffled on how me disliking "Expose" less than I dislike "This Place Is Death" is indicative of my taste in any way. I didn't realize that not hating "Expose" the most, but still hating it, calls my taste into question. (Also I would hope that this discussion doesn't continue on its negative stint because I honestly don't think there's anything to get even a little bit nasty about in this post.)

Ozymandias:
Well, that was a weird episode.

They pretty much telegraphed the rest of the season's flashbacks being about their last day off the island. That's the only reason this episode was so disjointed, they specifically and intentionally kept it entirely from Jack's perspective so we'd have to wait for everyone's else's perspective of that day.

TheFuriousWombat:
Yeah, clearly now for the next few eps at least we'll be getting in Island "present" (whatever that means) time and flashbacks for each person throughout that day. So, including Locke, that's 6 or 7 episodes (Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Locke (leading up to his death), Ben, Sun...maybe Desmond?) That'll bring us close to the season finale where I'm sure they'll do something different and wonderous.

Chesire Cat:
I suspect Locke will replace Christian as the embodiment of the Island

0bsessions:
Two weeks?

Two fucking weeks?!

AYUWERGSGSABDHCscbhoidfuckingfuck!

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