Pound that rock onto the damn bomb already and let's see what happens. We all sat on the edge of our seats, this was it, the last episode of season 5, the attempt to blow up the Island and put everything back on track was failing miserably. Juliette, all bloody and hopless, pinned in the magnetic pit of doom, scratching her way toward an errand rock so she could complete the task by bashing the A-Bomb, sending her and the crew into the oblivion of the past which would presumably set things back to normal.
OK, wham, it worked. The end. Season 5 ended on a kick ass note that spewed forth a collective breath of wonderment and exhilaration from the masses. It was a very good ending to season 5, and made for a torturous wait until season 6 began.
OK, that's the good news.
The bad news started with the opening of season 6. oh how cute, the castaways all get a 'side life', which really made no sense all the way to the end. Oh, no, they were not 'dead' after all, everyone was still 'on' the island. Now what. If the side-life was really the life they would have led, had the A-Bomb explosion at the end of season 5 worked, then the show should have ended there. Why bother trying to tie together the side-life and the island life. It never ever worked in any kind of way and was the beginning of the downfall, precluding any chance of a legitimate and powerful ending episode.
Why?
Because it no longer made it possible for the Island to exist after the end of season 6 with new stewards. Think about it, all of season 6 was wasted on trying to tie together the side-lives with the island life. This became a big mess and took valuable resources away from the writers in a deadline driven environment to answer questions which we all wanted to have answered.
Where was Walt? He was so integral to the first few episodes and introduced us to the 'Others' by way of the 'children' taken from the plane who supposedly were 'special'. Walt had special powers and seemed to me (along with Aaron later) to be a big piece of the puzzle. Well, guess what, neither of them played even a minor role in the last season and finale. They just disappeared and that was it. A load of crap.
What about the Dharma Initiative? The big player throughout the series.
In season 6 - what Dharma initiave? who cares about that anyway, it was just fluff that had nothing to do with the show anyway (according to the writers).
What about the second plane that crashed? In the temple the people who were separated from the 'beach' survivors in episode one (by landing further inland, presumable being in a different section of the plane), were now living with the Fu Man Chu guy, talking cryptically about other plane crashes and debating the smoke monster. The writers never brought that up again, failing to develop what could have been an interesting story line.
But I digress. Suffice it to say that by creating the 'side-life', the writers put about 12 nails into a 14 nail coffin.
Next time I'll talk about a more viable beginning to season 6 and we can start to develop Walt's story (which we'll see plays an important part in the 'real' ending (Walt after all is where the story really started when he played chess with Lock).
But more on that later.
Never fear the answers are here ....
thelostboy
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