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Originally Posted by JWBear
The PTB on this show have been hiding and subsequently revealing important pieces of information from day one. It's what they do. It's what this show is about.
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So if they "revealed" that this was the Truman Show on a soundstage with Jack as the star, would that be ok by you? Or the original suspicions that they were in purgatory, or in a snowglobe, or on another planet, or in a drug induced hallucination?
Again - a "twist" is when something that we currently know about is altered. A is pregnant. B had an affair. When you add elements that were completely hidden, that is not a twist. It's an "oh wait no".
I can accept a brand new puppetmaster. It's happened. Like 4 times. They were introduced a while back already, and the effects they had were obviously coming from something other than the people we already knew.
When the ship showed up and the team landed on the island, it was immediately obvious that something was fishy. The viewers did never believed it was a helpful team, even though the team was trying to fool the Losties. When it was eventually revealed that it was Widmore's ship it made sense. That is a plot twist, and a well executed one.
We are near the end of the series. You can't come out in the last 10 min of a play and introduce characters. It's invalidates what you've been watching. You build a story so people can feel involved, you don't just add and add and then it ends suddenly.
It's also lazy. As they said on the Simpsons at the end of the Lord of Flies spoof...."and they're eventually rescued by.....oh let's say Moe."