I didn't much care for her the first half of the show, but she was my favorite character of Season 6. As other storylines dragged, she really picked up the slack.

The best example of that is Season 2's "The Long Con," which was one of my favorite episodes up to that point, until the next couple episodes immediately drop any bit of emotional resonance from Sawyer's "I'm the new sheriff in town" speech. And great points about Claire.

I'm forced to watch both of these come Fall out of my love for both Karen Gillan and Cristin Milioti. While they look less than competent now, I think both of them are so fantastic that I wouldn't count out either show of eventually becoming good.

Here were my episode grades, with the finale considered 3 parts:
B+, A-, A-, A-, A, B-, B+, B, A+, B, B, A-, A-, A.
High points: Everything in Shape of Things to Come, "Hi Aaron," Jack echoing Tom after knowing he has shooters in the jungle, the reunions of the people who got off the island
Low points: freighter scenes…

Shape of Things to Come really stood out to me because in crisis, that group all showed who they were. Sawyer BSes all the time but when the rubber meets the road he puts it all on the line for Claire. Ben is literally faced with his worst fear and he doesn't back down, and for once, someone doesn't give him a way…

New viewer post: since last week, I finished Season 3 and just now finished Season 4. Hurray for cable-length seasons!

I saw the finale when it aired and that's it. I remember bits and pieces of it, as in some of the characters still on the island, and remember the fates of Jack/Sawyer/Kate/Hurley and I think Locke. And I vaguely recall a couple of the sideways scenes. I know there's some weird whole season of time travel but I've…

New watcher (getting close to the end of Season 3) and so far, Do No Harm's flashback is in the discussion for my favorite so far (though I'd surmise I prefer Flashes Before Your Eyes). I've caught Modern Family once or twice and hated it so I was expecting a kind of cheesy performance from Julie Bowen, and instead,…

I hated Hazel, and then started Bob's Burgers a couple months ago and was like "Wait, Kristin Schaal is awesome!"

Because I find his character driven by the mystery, not the other way around. I care about whatever's going on with Desmond because the show has me invested in the character, whereas Hurley feels like a gimmick with stuff like "Oh look he's actually great at ping pong and Sawyer doesn't even get a point off of him!"…

Watched Man From Tallahassee last night and am midway through Left Behind right now. The former is fantastic, right up there with Flashes Before Your Eyes. Hoping to finish S3 tonight as I can't watch the next few days and I desperately want to get to the much-hyped Through the Looking Glass.

The Others are smug which made Jack's various power plays awesome moments for me. Holding the buzzer to Juliet while Ben betrays her, Ben's surgery, etc. Fox, Holloway and Emerson are just dominant in those episodes which is why I really liked them, regardless of plot progress. Jack seeing the Sox win was one of my 2…

The flashbacks depend on the character.
In: Desmond, Sawyer, Jack, Juliet
Kate I like if she's given something to actually do. I don't like war plotlines so I've never loved Sayid. Hurley episodes are the worst. The show doesn't focus much on Charlie which is fine. Sun and Jin are pretty good. I haven't reached the Ben…

I just can't get into Hurley at all. He's already the most cartoonish character of the bunch and his flashbacks just exacerbate it. I mean, a CGI meteor flying into Mr. Cluck's? I was more annoyed by that than anything associated with Bai Ling.
I just haven't felt a reason to invest in him beyond the numbers/bad luck.…

Yeah I'm sure it's easier for me watching it afterwards being content to enjoy the characters interact since I know a bit where it ends up at the very end.

Right, so people still hating them is a residual of that? Still remembering how they felt back then I guess. I also wonder if it would have been better received if they'd gone 7 and had the hiatus come when Sawyer and Kate are at the boat rather than just leaving the cage. You know more where Juliet is coming from and…

New Lost viewer here (though I saw the finale when it originally aired and somewhat remember it). I'm through S3E10 (Tricia Tanaka is Dead). Observations:

Nickelodeon just trying to drive the stake in even deeper on what's left of our childhood.

Thanks, will do.

So it really is unscripted? My cynicism towards real-life-situation-reality-TV lead me to assume they were actors.