I credit that for at least being an attempt to tie it up, but in a lot of ways it just infuriated me more. "Lost" had a bad habit of doing these off-show things in online mini-episodes or DVD extras (or that random novel a fictional dead passenger on 815 "wrote") where they had actual plot information that was…

Caveat: I still count "Lost" as among my favorite TV series of all time, despite my meh-ness on the final season and, for the most part, I still enjoy most of the mysteries as they're unfurling, even if I know they ultimately aren't going anywhere particularly great.

Upon rewatch I definitely came to assume The Island saved Charlie, which is something I'm sorry was never explored.

"How To Be Good" is probably my least favorite Hornby book, since it seems to be all liberal WASP navel-gazing with insufferable characters. I do this enough on my own time, thankyouverymuch. Loved "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity."

I'm very psyched about this. It's been ages since he's had a good role. The last thing I saw him in was the ABC Alice and Wonderland + Aladdin show where he played Jafar which…sigh.

Oh, Sayid's "arc" in Season 6 was atrocious. It didn't ruin him for me exactly, since I figure that after dying and being dipped in the Bubbling Vat of Stupidity, he's "changed" and only kinda Sayid from that point on. But it's such a waste of one of the series more compelling characters. This was after I thought…

Oh, it's probably objectively the best episode of the series. There are a handful I like more, though, and "Numbers" is one of them, mostly because I think it utilizes most of the cast extremely well while still being a fine Hurley story. I'm sure there are viewers who dock it because of what the numbers ultimately…

The way Ethan (and later Goodwin) were shown in their flashback appearances, when they were members of The Others, didn't square at all with their dead-eyed homicidal weirdo incarnations in present-day Island. I sort of shrug it off, since I think the writers didn't entirely know what they wanted to do with The…

My 5 favorite episodes of the first "Lost" season, in order:

The pilot was a mess, but it was kind of interesting in the ways it failed.

Tyrion waddles to a dining table to fuck a bagel, while a whore watches.

The showrunners supposedly know, roughly, an outline of what will happen in the story. It would obviously diverge a lot more from what Martin wants than what they're doing based off the books, though.

Is it worth getting "Lost" on blu-ray? I've got all six seasons on DVDs, but I've been contemplating carting them to the used bookstore and upgrading to the series box set. It's a show that seems like it'd benefit from the format, but it's a big thing to repurchase.

I'm the wrong person to ask because I don't like-like the show, and I think some other people here do. I'm sticking with it largely because I feel like it has potential and would like to see where it goes. If I was totally and completely sure it'd get renewed, I'd honestly probably have dropped it by now with a plan…

I admire it more than I like it, but I can see why people find it so emotionally affecting. It doesn't work for me on the same level it works for many other viewers, but it's utterly unique and I respect it a great deal.

I am at a point where I hope this show gets a second season, even if it has significant problems. It has a collection of really good actors and a premise with potential, and maybe with tighter writing it could really come together next year. Maybe. Possibly. It has more of a future for me than "Turn," at least,…

Like a lot of the terrible Season 2 moments, the misunderstanding felt like something grafted on from another, far, lesser, show.

The car fire is hilarious.

A+++++++++++++++++++++

I'm surprised by the appreciation for "The Moth," which I always consider one of Season 1's weaker episodes. My favorite parts of it are the ones that don't involve Charlie at all, Sayid's McGuyver mission to triangulate the signal.