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Lost’s sixth and final season drew both raves and criticism from its passionate fans who wanted answers to the series’ many loose ends. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse found a way to wrap up some lingering story lines while introducing entirely new ones when they decided to employ a “flash-sideways” plot device, showing us an alternate reality in which Oceanic 815 never crashes (a consequence of the hydrogen-bomb detonation that occurred in season 5′s finale). This method allowed some long-gone characters to return (Boone, Charlie, Libby) and even showed sunnier outcomes for some of the survivors’ more unhappy pasts (Locke, Hurley). But in the non-Sideways world, the bomb’s detonation doesn’t change their course, and the survivors find themselves delving deeper into the island’s mythology: notably the yin/yang of the demigod Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) and the smoke monster, the Man in Black (Titus Welliver), as well as some curious denizens of a temple. As the smoke monster’s scheme to escape the island leaves a trail of carnage, culminating in a face-off with that other villain Charles Widmore, some primary characters meet their end in season 6 while others find the redemption they’d been seeking since the series began. Moreover, some survivors finally find out their connection to the island (and each other) when the two realities start to intermingle, leading to a tearful finale that satisfies and frustrates at the same time.

Episode 01/02: LA X 8/10
Episode 03: What Kate Does 6/10
Episode 04: The Substitute 6/10
Episode 05: Lighthouse 8/10
Episode 06: Sundown 7/10
Episode 07: Dr. Linus 8/10
Episode 08: Recon 3/10
Episode 09: Ab Aeterno 9.5/10
Episode 10: The Package 7/10
Episode 11: Happily Ever After 3/10

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Desmond's fans are happy: He is in the water again.

Seven hours are left. Seven hours, in which the writers have time to conclude all the stories on the island, in the flash-sideways, for the characters. Some must think that this might be the best chance to unpack the awesomeness of Lost, but since the final season defines “lame” new, we have to accept that we were wrong – and not just John Locke.
“Happily Ever After” showed something new in the Lost universe: It showed how an episode can be that awesome, but at the same time do damn boring and a waste of time, I was stunned and shocked after 42 minutes. I have never seen such an episode like this. Either the episode was the awesomeness in person, super, alright, boring or shit. But “Happily Ever After” was the awesomeness in person, alright, boring and shit. And I don’t even really know why…

And it has a simple reason, why I needed almost a week to write a review for this episode: I was so bored of it, I didn’t even know what to write anymore and put the draft somewhere in the attic, to all the other drafts I didn’t finish. Why bothering writing a review with the estimated 2000 words, when the episode was actually way too boring to write that much?
What is wrong with Lost’s final season?

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Sun is angry, wants to talk, but nobody can understand her. Damn tree she hit earlier

I am not in the mood to write something funny or important for the introduction text, since it’s raining outside, it’s cold and it’s April Fool’s Day. So get your act together and click on the “more” button to read the rest of this post. Meanwhile the CEO of this blog (yeah, it’s me – as surprising as this episode’s cliffhanger) is thinking about tiny little changes in the texture of the blog. The pictures still aren’t connected pretty with the text, so something has to change again…

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Ricardo in chains - it is the beginning of his story.

Ab Aeterno. Latin for “from the beginning of time” or “from the everlasting/eternity”. In theology, often indicates something, such as the universe, that was created outside of time.
This episode of LOST. Answers of some of the biggest questions of the series mythology.
The final season. Finally gets into a direction I wanted to see from the beginning of this season.
Nestor Carbonell. The most awesome actor for the role of Ricardo.
Emmy. His.
Me. Stunned about the episode.

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Sawyer wants to kill Tina Fey? No fucking way...

This episode from the final season’s Lost is called “Recon”. I could imagine, why the writers gave it exactly this episode: They wanted to con us fans and LOST nerds – after all it is the final season, so we were awaiting awesomeness. The writers and producers conned us, lied, and gave os boredom times ten. This has to be the most boring episode since “Fire + Water” from the second season, or “Further Instructions” from the third season – choose. The flash-sideways storyline was laughable and brought absolutely nothing, except the wonderful eyes of Rebecca Mader; the island storyline felt so much like filler, I yawned during the interesting scenes.
And I was thinking, after Smokey’s massacre and the awesomeness in the Black Rock from the last episode, the season gets interesting. Well, I thought wrong. What a stinker…

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The angry people rule this season. Ilana is one of the characters, who wish to kill somebody.

Well, it was anything between a filler episode and an important one. It was anything but suspenseful. It was anything but characterless. It was anything but the weakest episode so far this season. Yeah, you can actually say, this was the best episode so far. Which wasn’t difficult, since “Dr. Linus” was – as the episode title already says – a Ben-centric episode. And Michael Emerson showed his awesome acting skills once more, and Terry O’Quinn has to take cover during the next Emmys, because Michael is not far away to win one for himself.
Eleven episodes are left, until we see the last minutes of this awesome show, which changed television history in the last decade (^^).

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Sayid shows, what he has under his arms

The sun goes down on the island. Or Sun is going down somewhere, like the stairs. Or somebody pulls down the actual sun. Or maybe the title of the episode is telling us that Lost is transforming into a darker series with this episode. All hope is lost, now the darkness is coming. Also known as Smokey.
The episode title could have suggested, we would get Sun’s flash-sideways story, since the sixth episode of the first season centered around Sun, and there was a slight pattern in this season. But the writers already break the pattern in this episode, and give us Sayid. A Sayid, who can’t love. A Sayid, who kills in both timelines. An evil Sayid. An evil and killing Sayid. A Sayid, who obviously changed sides. Well, at least he is in a happy place now, judging his smile to fake Locke.

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What is Jack thinking about? 'I have to think about my violent behavior.'

As I expected during my review for The Substitute: The writers really don’t treat this season as it would be the last one. There are 13 hours left of Lost, and we don’t even have begun with the bigger stories of Lost. Charles Widmore was talking about a war, Jacob said somebody was coming to the island (it could have been a lie), there are three questionable years involving Claire, there is fake Locke and Jacob – I don’t have the feeling the writers cover those topics during the first five episodes of the season and I don’t have the feeling the writers will cover those topics during the next five episodes.
Let’s be straight with each other: The beginning of the sixth season did something, which the other season beginnings didn’t do: It stopped the story and gave us filler mysteries, just to keep the fire alive and burning. For one part of the Lost community, that is a big mistake, another part doesn’t care and another part hopes that the series will revive the old story soon. I am something between “doesn’t care” and “hoping that the series will revive”. And that brought me to love this episode.
And you know what? This was episode number 108. Hooray, the world goes down.

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Mysterious and creepy kid with bloody arms in the jungle

It is the final season, and ABC’s marketing campaign tells me that the time of questions is over.
I ask now: REALLY? OH, REALLY?
I could end this review now, since I was annoyed by most of the story in this episode, even though I like Locke and the story couldn’t be more interesting. But at the moment I have the feeling of not watching Lost for a while – the same feeling I head after watching “316″ from the fifth season. And I did put Lost in hiatus and got back to it six months later. So, why was “The Substitute” a problem for me?

Well, there is still the missing significance of the alternate timeline. Especially in this episode, we had with Locke one character, who couldn’t remember something from the other timeline, because he was dead. There is Sawyer, who illogical follows fake Locke, just because he wants off the island. There is Richard, who was taken by fake Locke and now runs through the jungle again. There is all the mystery, which isn’t getting to me.
I have a déjà vu to the seventh and final season of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, where the real series finale started five episodes before the actual series finale. And I have the feeling the same thing is happening to Lost. Until episode 13 we see just another season of Lost, while the real finale begins with episode 14.
Nine more annoying episodes… I hope that doesn’t happen at all.

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Emo Sawyer talks to Kate and cries. Josh Holloway's best acting piece in the show so far.

Okay… I have to say I managed something what I didn’t manage before: Eight minutes after the episode began airing on the West Coast I finished watching it – I never watched a series episode so fast after its airing on the East Coast, so this one is a personal record for me. Thank God for the internet and everything that’s in it. Maybe next week, I will finish the episode, before the clock hits 9 p.m. on the West Coast.

Okay, now to the episode. I knew Jacob is not in Sayid. I expected we wouldn’t see anything regarding the man in black, Richard, Frank, Ilana, Ben and the folks at the statue. We have much, much Claire and I was happy about it. Josh Holloway never acted so awesome than in this episode. Jack has balls, when he swallowed that pill. Kate is way too much of a softie in her flash-sideway. Miles still doesn’t believe Sayid is dead. And fucking Ethan is now Dr. Goodspeed and assists Claire in the hospital. WTF?

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