May 25, 2010

Lost: Season Six

Data
Title: Lost: Season Six
Year: 2010
Network: ABC
Episodes: 18, about 42 minutes each
Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof
Directors: Jack Bender (8 episodes), Paul A. Edwards (3), Tucker Gates (3), Bobby Roth (1), Mario Van Peebles (1), Daniel Attias (1), Stephen Semel (1)
Writers: Damon Lindelof (7 episodes), Carlton Cuse (7), Edward Kitsis (4), Adam Horowitz (4), Elizabeth Sarnoff (4), Paul Zbyszewski (3), Graham Roland (3), Melinda Hsu Taylor (2), Jim Galasso (2), Greggory Nations (1)
Starring: Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Henry Ian Cusick, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Jeff Fahey, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Ken Leung, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn
Music: Michael Giacchino

My reaction
Synopsis: "candidates" vs. smoke monster
How I saw it: on hulu, as it aired
Concept: Terrible. It's like the whole show has just been a giant practical joke.
Story: Terrible. Not only is the ending disappointing beyond anything I could have imagined, but there isn't even anything interesting that happens on the way (with the minor exception of "Ab Aeterno").
Characters: Good. While there are a lot of great characters, they all fade into the background in the last few episodes.
Dialog: Bad. If you fed past seasons' scripts into a computer that could look for common phrases and randomly arrange them in a grammatical context, you'd get most of season six's dialog.
Pacing: Indifferent. They let on that it wasn't going anywhere a bit too early, so by the time the finale came around I didn't even care anymore and was just watching out of habit. Also, what's with >50% of the finale consisting of the same scene, repeated over and over again?
Cinematography: Indifferent.
Special effects/design: Great.
Acting: Good. Most of the cast has gotten tedious by this point, but a handful are still quite good.
Music: Indifferent. Even Giacchino underwhelms. What the hell? Maybe he's just got better things to do than put any effort into this crap.
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad). So very angry with these writers. They took a popular culture icon and crapped all over it. Note to self: serial drama + mystery = don't get involved.
Objective Rating: 1.8/4 (Eh).

ETA: I forgot to mention/complain: DRAIN PLUG!

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