Henry Gale on Lost.
ian said,
Personally, I think he’s way to fishy. But that last episode was pretty fishy overall. It’s going downhill, I tell you!
Luke said,
I liked that episode. But I’m a sucker for Jin/Sun episodes anyways. Next episode looks gooooooood….
“5 Events will happen on the Island. Each more exciting then the last!”
And it’s a Locke episode. It’s gotta be good!
ian said,
Nothing happened!
We’ve seen the whole “Sun doesn’t tell Jin everything” plot line before, and the A plot only gets Charlie, Sayid and Anna to… an empty clearing? We don’t even get a peek at what’s there?
Charlie didn’t even say “bloody” once the whole episode?
Boring!
Luke said,
You, sir, are getting too picky.
ian said,
I can expect quality from what I watch. Otherwise, I don’t have to watch it.
luke said,
Consider the following: In Walkabout (one of my favourite episodes), Locke hunts down a boar. That’s it. You don’t expect quality… you expect quantity. You want loads of new and exciting stuff to happen in one episode.
ian said,
I expect quality. In Walkabout, we learn that Locke was in a wheelchair before getting on the plane (a quality scene of character development).
In The Whole Truth, we learn that Jin is overprotective of Sun, something we already learned in …In Translation. We also find out that Sun sometimes keeps things from Jin in order to avoid hurting is feelings, even though it would probably be better if she told him, as we already learned in House of the Rising Sun.
My point is that while this episode had lots of flashbacks, it did not develop the characters in any significant way. This makes me think that the writers don’t have any new ideas for character development, and the character development plots may start to stall.
Additionally, the plot development was quite weak as well, so there was nothing to make up for the lack of character development. This might be okay if the writing was entertaining, but there were no great lines either. So there’s not a whole lot that was good in the episode.
Luke said,
OK, I saw this post somewhere, and thought it says something. You were complaining before that nothing happened in Season 2, in comparison to Season 1, so…
“Yeah. Nothing is happening in Season 2. They didn’t find out what was in the hatch. We didn’t learn about Dharma. We didn’t see the fate of the tail end. We didn’t see the fate of the raftees. We didn’t see the tail end and raftees reunite with the main Losties. We didn’t find out more about the people’s pasts. We didn’t see other people on the island. The plane full of heroin has no signifigance to any of the survivors. We didn’t find out what happened when Claire got kidnapped. Absolutely nothing is happening with a prisoner Danielle captured.”
ian said,
I didn’t say there was nothing good about season 2, I’m saying this particular episode wasn’t good, and that this episode offered nothing in terms of plot or character development.
This makes me worry that the writers are running out of ideas. Or perhaps they only wrote enough material for one season, and they’re just making it up as they go along. 
Luke said,
Don’t you “straw man” me. If you read my post carefully you’ll see that I said, “you were complaining before”, that’s “before”. I was referring to another argument we had.
And before you come up with some witty comeback, I am going to say the following,
“We agree to disagree”.
That is all.
Ps. Season 2 is still good! We’re just going through a slump right now!
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