This was the first episode I haven't liked so far this season. It may be because I hate the Kate character, but it also was just downright boring. The last 2 minutes or so were cool though.
2 weeks in a row of utter disappointment. This season is shaping out to be worst than the last one. And I drive around with a licence plate bracket that says "you all everybody." That's how much of a fan I am. I'm beginning to think that everything that made this show great has already happened.
I have to admit I'm very frustrated with this season. It's contradictory to the last four - makes the episodes I didn't like in those seasons look good in comparison. Where is the excitement?
Nothing has happened that we didn't already know - or could have guessed. I hope Lost redeems itself - but as a long time viewer of the show I'm getting annoyed. The characters don't feel like themselves either and it irks me.
I don't know that I'll ever hate an episode as much as I hated The Cost of Living but this one comes close. Nothing seems right with this episode. Cassidy doesn't seemed just blown away that Kate and Sawyer were actually together on the island instead she wants to engage in a vincent session about Sawyer and rub Kate's nose in it that Sawyer dumped Kate like Sawyer dumped Cassidy - which Kate knows full well isn't what happened although she acts like she buys it. Then Kate has a hard-on to save Teen Ben even though she has absolutely no reason to get so concerned. Juliet, as complicated as her relationship with Ben is/has been and as conflicted as she must be, makes sense but Kate? What reason can she muster to possibly care so much - the guy threw her in a cage and threatened to kill people she loved/cared about. Then she's ready to stalk out into the jungle with a the wounded Ben certain that she can locate the Others and get them to take care of Ben. How is she so certain of that? Next we have the third or fourth repeat of the dockside scene where Ben and Jack are trying to convince everyone to go back to the island - only this time there is apparently no changes in the scene unlike last week in Sayid's flashback so it's entirely superflous. Then the grocery store where Aaron is "kidnapped" but isn't which shakes Kate up so much that she decides to drive, in the middle of the night mind you, all the way from Los Angeles to New Mexico to see Cassidy who proceeds to offer some liquored up coffee and some more dime-store psychology that Kate accepts like she just had a counseling session with Sigmund Freud. Kate apparently has an epiphany, I guess, and drives all the way back to Los Angeles and spills her guts to Claire's Mom telling her that Claire is still alive (which no one is certain of), shows her about the crappiest looking polaroid picture of a kid ever, and then says that she's going back to the island to save Claire. What!?!? Save Claire - where the f did that come from? Oh, and back on the island she tries to sell to Sawyer the idea that the reason he jumped out of the chopper was because he was scared of a relationship with her - the girl that operated with two boyfriends the whole time on the island because she couldn't make up her mind which one she wanted to be with for more than a few days at a time. Thank God that Sawyer nipped that in the bud.
This was just crazy. I'll hold back utter contempt for this episode on the grounds that some utterly bizarre plot twist might make sense out of all of this but let's just say I'm doubtful that any believable plot twist could exist that would make this episode plausible.
Yeah, all the Kate-based stuff bothered me this episode, what a waste of time it was and really unconvincing, especially as I just don't think we've been shown much of a bond between Kate and Aaron at all, instead he just seems like an irritating pet that she looks after, there's not really any intimacy.
I am also bothered by Ben losing memory, seems a bit like... ehhh, yeah he can just lose his memory, that'll sort out any inconsistencies. Just a bit lazy, but at least they are not claiming that he did remember.
But I liked pretty much everything that happened on the island, that was pretty good, although not amazing, it didn't bother me
This 1970's stuff seems to be so out-of-tune & cooked up along the way. I keep hoping they would be back to the present and continue the arduous storyline. But they dont budge outta the past. How long are they gonna stretch it? The entire season? It is downright boring.
Now, after all these years, I really ought to give it to all those guys who laughed at Lost screaming that the writers had no idea where they were going with this show. Kudos!
This 1970's stuff seems to be so out-of-tune & cooked up along the way. I keep hoping they would be back to the present and continue the arduous storyline. But they dont budge outta the past. How long are they gonna stretch it? The entire season? It is downright boring.
Now, after all these years, I really ought to give it to all those guys who laughed at Lost screaming that the writers had no idea where they were going with this show. Kudos!
Yea, I really hate the past stuff too. It seems we will be here most, if not all, of the season unfortunately. I haven't liked an episode since The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham, and that was four eps ago.
LOST: The End. What a great ride it was.
"Do you know how badly I want to counsel you right now?" Titus Welliver to Mark Pelligrino
"Nothing's irreversible." Jack "It only ends once." Man In Black Mesa
What the heck was that all about?
Worst episode of the season by a mile, and contender for worst all time.
The problem IMO wasn't that it was Kate centric, it was that it was a shipper episode. I barely tolerate those at their best and this one was just a mess.
Sawyer as a boy toy for Juliet is b-o-r-i-n-g in addition to being unbelievable. Kate and Cass's discussions made no sense at all. Sawyer's and Kate's scenes were another fine mess. Nothing about any of this made any sense.
I anticipated and actually liked the Kate-Aaron-Carole stuff, despite the huge timing problem. It's a great plot device, the writers just rushed it too much. I totally bought Kate going back for Claire and I'm glad *someone* is determined to find her. Go Kate!
I also loved the Miles-Hurley time travel stuff, as contrived as it was.
But neither of those plot points came anywhere close to saving this debacle; I assume it was some sort of bone thrown to the shippers but surely even they couldn't find any good in this.
And - to cap it all off, all that shipper angst was over saving pre-adolescent BEN??!!
Give me a break.
There were so many better ways I could have spent that hour. In hindsight, I wish I had watched American Idol. (I'm serious.)
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