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Old 05-11-2010, 11:42 PM   #1
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They "answered" those questions in only the absolute most superficial way possible. Instead of "Jacob's protecting the island and the mysterious magnetic energy it emanates," it's now, "Jacob's protecting the island and the mysterious light energy it emanates." Instead of "Jacob somehow became the protector of the island and will do anything to protect it," it's "Jacob's 'mom' somehow became the protector of the island and will do anything to protect it." The episode did nothing to either answer the underlying questions behind any of it, nor even ask any new interesting questions. It just slightly altered the nitpicky details of the questions, leaving the same overall view of what's going on.

I didn't say I'm giving up on the show or that this episode makes me any more or less worried about the ending. But this episode did nothing to move the story in anything more than trivial ways.
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Old 05-12-2010, 09:47 AM   #2
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I didn't say I'm giving up on the show or that this episode makes me any more or less worried about the ending. But this episode did nothing to move the story in anything more than trivial ways.
I wish I could say the same. With two episodes to go, I feel last night's fiasco leaves the series ending almost impossible to be satisfactory. To me, at least.

How can you have the pen-penultimate episode, finally about the major Behind-It-All characters, move the story in nothing but trivial ways and STILL have the penultimate and ultimate episodes wrap things up well?


IMPOSSIBLE, says me.




Ya know, I'm used to series finales ending poorly. It's a really tough job, and I don't get too broken up about it being handled half-assedly. But this entire season was set up as a sort of finale, and I've found it by and large disappointing.

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Old 05-13-2010, 10:44 AM   #3
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How can you have the antepenultimate episode
I fixed it for you.
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