No?

I'm surprised so many people like season 5. I thought that was when the show started going down hill. It looks like a different show, there's all that Dharma Initiative nonsense, and there's aren't many great episodes.

I'm surprised so many people like season 5. I thought that was when the show started going down hill. It looks like a different show, there's all that Dharma Initiative nonsense, and there's aren't many great episodes.

I love the slight smile George gives Jerry as he looks up from his book.

I still don't know what that means…

He had a major stroke. I think he's taking things easy, these days.

My problem with the scene in the mini series is actually not that Georgie has a conversation with the clown, but that at one point he begins to get up and says "I gotta go..", like he's bored and has some other place to be. I think when facing the prospect of having a conversation with a clown who is in a storm drain,…

Exactly. I thought Lost did a great job with the introductions of Miles, Lapidus, Charlotte and Daniel, and that was a season later. They introduced all four characters at the same time, but it worked because each character was compelling, and given a little back story. Like how Lapidus calls Oceanic and tells them…

Passover Coke is where it's at.

I don't think Expose is at all comparable to those episodes you mention. I mean, Walkabout gave us the rather huge twist that Locke was once in a wheelchair, and The 23rd Psalm gave us Eko's back story, and a real good look at the Smoke Monster. These are episodes about characters the audience was already invested in.…

But, keep in mind, season 3 had it's share of detractors, and people feeling there was more of the usual wheel spinning. It's a nice stand alone episode, but that late in the season, I wasn't looking for a nice, stand alone episode.

Weren't they set up almost immediately in a negative light? I seem to recall Nikki bitching to Hurley about something, and Paulo being rather dickish. And, as mentioned by others, the fact they were so ineptly introduced. They were kind of blandly attractive, and not particularly compelling.

For me, it's the fact they didn't tell the audience early on that made me assume it would be a very significant moment (well, beyond him just being paralysed), my reasoning being that if it didn't matter, they would have already told us. And because they kept putting it off, I kept thinking this was a story that was…

There was only 10 episodes this season. A handful of episodes is almost half the season.

"…but then it may have just been a lot of creative
juices flowing into a single episode"

Milhouse: Bart's a goner. Anyone want to be my new best friend?
Ralph: I will.
Milhouse: Great! Finally I'll be the dominant one!
Ralph: Be quiet.
Milhouse: Yes sir.

It's a very good episode that just so happens to have the greatest twist in a television show ever. It completely subverts audience expectations.

The problem was Janney was miscast. For a part that should have been mysterious, or exotic, Janney was a strange casting choice, because she's so waspy.

She looks like Justin Timberlake's illegitimate daughter:

I think Fallon was genuinely stunned/mortified.