More and more answers are surfacing about the connections between all the strange things that have been happening on Lost. I am wondering if the next season will be able to tie everything together satisfactorily. It could very well be that the final explanation will end up either being a bit silly or will create retroactive plot-holes. Not until the final reel is out there will the viewers be able to judge how well the whole thing holds together.
Although I generally admire the writing for Lost, the writers have messed up before a couple of times when it comes to believability. There was the foretold death of one of the regulars for instance, which was presented as heroic and necessary, but turned out to be completely avoidable and therefore stupid when the moment arrived.
The island appears to be shrinking as the series goes on; by now it seems to take a lot less time to get from one side of it to the other than it did at the beginning of the series. Amazingly, people often tend to just happen to run into each other in the huge forest when the plot requires, and the non-featured survivors seem all too aware of their status as extras and will pop up, disappear, and sometimes die without having much of an impact on anyone.
If you saw the season four finale (mild spoiler alert) ask yourself this: why wasn't anybody mobbing the helicopter and why weren't the main characters concerned about the well-being of the other survivors? Oh well, the occasional logical lapse notwithstanding, I will definitely be hanging around to watch the final lap. Here's hoping they don't lose the plot.
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1 - izikavazo
If anyone is interested, and if you are done watching season 4, come by my Lost blog.
I'm going to try to keep writing about Lost during the whole hiatus to keep you interested.