Lost Season 5
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By fred | January 22, 2009
(S05E01) Everyone known last season of Lost was the best season of the series so far, and the question is whether or not the creative minds behind the show will be able to top that this season. They’ve put the bar to an incredibly high level, but if there are people who can manage to do it it, it’s them. I have to say, I think I had forgotten a little how awesome Lost is and how freaking cool it is to dive into a new episode, and make it out barely alive, with a nosebleed and no clue what just happened.
Trying to figure out what’s going on remain the greatest thing ever with this show, and before I started watching this new episode I was a little scarred that we wouldn’t get any answer, not right away, about what happened to the Island, where it moved, all those burning questions we have. Of course, this is Lost, and with an end date already set, there’s no time to waste.
In the end, my feeling is that I don’t get it. I know I freaking love it, but I have no clue what’s going on!
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By fred | January 22, 2009
(S05E02) Before this season started, I had an idea/guess at what might this season be about and how it could be ending – that is, basically it would be about everyone (whoever that may or may not include) returning to the Island. Much like last season ended with them leaving, this one would be with them returning. Of course, while an easy guess it’s also an “empty” one.
I mean, that doesn’t really mean anything, if you think about the big picture. What is going on with this Island, and the people on it – wherever they might have come from? What’s at stake here? What game are Ben and Widmore playing ? Oh and, let’s not forget that other dude, Jacob! Who is he exactly, and what does he want ? Sure, this isn’t the last season, but as we’re getting closer and since the masterminds can now lay out the series up until the end, they have to be thinking about all of this, obviously.
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By fred | January 29, 2009
(S05E03) What I’m feeling right now as to be pretty close to the way I felt last year, watching season 4 of Lost. It’s really the same, you feel like you’re watching what might simply be the best season of the show to date. Only difference is, this time we’re not coming after a disappointing season involving tattoos and whatnot, this time we’re following what is the best season to date, an amazing and mind-blowing piece of television like rarely seen before.
And for them to manage not only to keep up with that level of greatness, but to actual go and improve it, really shows how fantastic this show is turning out to be. And if for a while people were worried about whether or not there was a master plan, whether writers were coming up with things along the way or had it all planned from the start, I think that now we can be sure that there’s a master plan, and at least with everything that happened since last season, there will be tie in, clues and things that will start to make sense or find a second meaning as we go along.
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By fred | February 5, 2009
(S05E04) The introduction of flash forward was a great new story telling device last season, but with the current situation of the people still on the Island, the fact that they are constantly jumping through time, has given a brand new dynamic to the show and the way each episode can be constructed.
With flash forwards, every episode still had the focus on one character more than the others, and while it would be easy to see which character was central this season, with some many stories going on at once it doesn’t still like we’re focusing on one (group of) people.
Rather, we’re (trying to) follow everything that’s happening, but now that the writers now exactly where they’re going with the show, and don’t have all the time in the world to do so, they don’t hesitate to throw at us little clues and hints here and there, things that will obviously find a meaning later on this season (or the next), but that for now, as far as we’re concerned, are nothing but (exciting) teaser of things to come.
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By fred | February 12, 2009
(S05E05) Last week things slowed down a little, we mostly got people in place for bigger things to come. This week was pretty much the opposite, as so many things happened in just one episode it probably makes things even harder to follow it. You literally don’t have much time to process what’s happening, because before you know it comes another flash and you’re at some other place in time, with new things happening.
Not that it’s any complaint, absolutely not. But it’s not just the flashes through time that made this episode so good, it’s also what happened and all the answers we got. Obviously, as we’re getting closer and closer to the end, more and more answers will be given and not as many new questions will rise. This episode brought lots of answers, many of which we already suspected…
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By fred | February 19, 2009
(S05E06) Frustrating, is how I would have described about this episode, and the way it made me feel, right after watching it. It’s funny because by the end of it, I was under the impression that what we were just given was an awful lot of new questions and mysteries, and nothing else. Of course that isn’t the case, far from it. In fact, from the very beginning of the episode we were given an answer, though we knew that eventually some people would have had to go back to the Island, an answer that also is a testament of how better this season is than previous ones.
It used to be that when something big was at play, it would take at least a season if not more to eventually get there. Because you don’t get inside the hatch or leave the Island over a couple of episodes only, it takes a (very) long time. But now, the end of the series is near and there is plenty of things to go through — starting with the very essence of the show, and what the Hell is going on on this Island, what is that game Desmond mentioned…
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By fred | February 26, 2009
(S05E07) As hinted buy the title of this episode, after looking at how the O6 came to the decision of going back to the Island – or, at least, how they all eventually got on another plane together – this week we had a look at what one Jeremy Bentham did during his time on the mainland, and how he tried to convince everyone to come back to the Island.
And if we knew most of what actually took place, because it’s been talked about in past episodes by many of the other player, this still managed to be a really good episode, and a major reason for that has to fall back on the shoulder of the amazing Terry O’Quinn, once again brilliant all along. There’s no question that he can convey emotions like no other, and that was probably this season’s episode that will get him an award or two.
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By fred | March 5, 2009
(S05E08) As we come closer and closer to the end, we know a lot more about what’s going on with Lost, on and off Island, and we can see things coming. Adding to that of course how we’ve already witness events from the past, present and future of the lives of many characters, and there are times that episodes such as this one are doomed to happen, more and more we will have episodes where we know what is going on, as well as what is about the take place.
But that doesn’t take anything away from it, not if done well. Because if they make it work, such episodes might not have the craziness or give us delightful headaches as did say The Constant, but they can still be some of the best episodes of the series. And this time, they did it. While we might have know most of what would go down from past episodes, while there wasn’t any more time travel to figure out (except for one last one at the beginning), it was still a very strong and pleasant episode.
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By fred | March 19, 2009
(S05E09) So far this season of Lost has been pretty fantastic, and the show has clearly evolved not only in the ways the different stories are tell, but also in what they’re all about. What’s so great about this season, is that with everything that took place recently, and because of how much things have changed for our characters, they’re able to do what they did tonight : come up with what is mostly an episode whose only purpose to to get people into places, set them up for what’s coming next, and yet it’s thrilling.
What we reached with this episode, is a point where things will have to change on the show. Let’s face it, so far we still have no idea what the Hell this show is about, what is really going on. It used to be about people crashing on a mysterious Island, but then if soon moved on to Others in the jungle, people trying to leave and having to come back… but in the end, the show is about something else, something opposing Ben & Widmore, something we still have no idea of.
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By fred | March 26, 2009
(S05E10) It’s been said a countless amount of time, Lost has changed, and the way stories are told, and each episode is being constructed, isn’t what it used to be back in the days, where there was no time travel and flashbacks weren’t taking place in the future. So what this episode did to change – again – the way things work, is to resort to the old-school method of what we used to have.
For the first time this season, we went back to a story about one character and his struggle, a story told from the present (well or past, it’s 1977 after all) but also flashbacks from the future, after the crash and once the O6 left the Island, since now with all the changes that this show went through, even resorting back a the good old model of the past makes for something that isn’t like it used to be, that remains superior and more uncommon than it might appear.
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