Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The End of Season Three...

Forgive me, i have been pretty slack about the up-keeping of this blog this Quarter. For whatever reason, i haven't brought my laptop to school as much as previous Quarters. However, now that i've secured good grades for the Quarter, i think i'm safe to bring this thing along and commit some thoughts to writing.

To sum up the whole season would be a lengthy task. i'm not going to do that. A lot has happened, and much of it isn't worth commenting on. The two shitty actors appeared and were killed off; in a perfect manner if you ask me; as it was done exactly how i felt it narratively needed to be.

Now, i'll hit on a few ideas, and leave it at that...

The last time i posted on this season was more of a series of complaints about how badly season three was going. With that said, they've somehow turned it around 180 degrees. i'm not entirely sure how they did it, or at what point it occurred, nevertheless, the fact that it has happened is a testimony to the genius of the plot.

With that said, in reference to Ben's parting comment to Locke - "Well i hope for you sake that he helps you" (or something to that effect) - we will see a surprising intervention of "Jacob" in season four. All in all, i have to say that the introduction of Jacob is a pretty damn cool twist.

So anyway, how about the fact that Xerxes from "300" is apparently ageless? Clearly another great twist and thickening of the plot in this season.

The great thing about the trans-seasonal plot is that just when you think you've been told something, you more often than not have only been told half of the story. Thus we have the reference to the "Hostiles," confusing us when the "Others" were revealed. We find ourselves calmly accepting that these "Others" were those who were telepathically schizing out people into running in circles, chasing ghosts and shooting each other. It turns out that all along, these "Hostiles" were something entirely different and the Others were as utterly unimpressive as they seemed from the beginning revelations of the season (which frankly seemed a major let down until realizing that they were not the ones with all of the extraordinary powers).

Interesting season for sure. Somehow, they managed to turn around the suck-fest that they were beginning to slouch towards earlier in the season. Well done.