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Another disappointed customer here, too - especially after last week's boffo episode (the only one of the season).
I'm getting tired of the sideways focus on one character per episode - because it smacks of there not being a story, per se, but rather just a desire to spotlight each main character in turn as a kind of curtain call for the series. Bleh on that. Waste of time when TONS of Story should be Told at this point.
And the sideways stuff is not even very good. Last week's Ben Linus was of course the best one. It actually told a full story, and hooked in beautifully with the story on the island that week. Well done. None of the others are rising to that standard, though.
The Sayid one was also interesting ... but was a snippet of a tale instead of a story told. And I guess it's all leading up to many of the characters, if not all of them, hooking up sometime soon - - though the reveal of some other sideways character interaction at the very end of the episode is already getting tiresome.
And what is the POINT of the sideways world that obviously is NOT the world the characters inhabited in the original pre-Oceanic world. WHY is that? What's it got to do with the "real" characters on the Island? How will those two storylines affect each other and the freaking finale that we're supposed to be rushing headlong to?
With only 8 more episodes, I don't think there's any possibly satisfying way to tie this all together.
I picked the wrong season to watch week-by-week as it airs. This is torture. And not the fun kind.
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