You're entitled to that opinion.

The radar effect in the movie was one of its few bright spots, I thought.

Is Claire's Ice Queen persona public, though? One thing I love about Wright's performance is how controlled she is about "turning it on" when she needs to. I can utterly believe that the general public doesn't see the iciness that we're privy to.

And Achara's brother & friends are pretty much the same as The Others. "You are a stranger here! That means we have to act cryptically and punch you!"

It's easy work! You just enter a code and push a button every 108 minutes.

I'm not sure how that contradicts what I said.

"Why don't you sing like her?"
"Why don't you look like him?"

While it's unclear from the scene itself, later lines indicate that it's not just because she has hair there, but gray hair.

Please, fine me. Come down here and arrest me.

Which then ties into the big complaints about the Temple in Season Six. This should have been the heart of The Others, who they are and why they do what they do. Instead, it's little more than another setpiece, and the only Other of note is Dogen, who is a massive cypher, and whose only purpose is keeping the Smoke…

Unless she had an experience mimicking Desmond's. She might be "outside time" in a similar way. Which would explain why Daniel's message to Desmond was "find my mother".

I think that Eloise is like Desmond, perhaps for the same reason. She can see the path of the future, but unlike Desmond, she's already resigned herself that changing things is impossible. So she's decided to be the shepherd of the future she sees.

True. What I more find fascinating is the idea that people seemed to watch each episode thinking THIS EPISODE would be the one to move the "answer needle" enough to let them quit, and any episode that didn't move the "answer needle" was a wasted hour.

See, that's where Lost, eventually, ended up stronger: fixed timeline. They show you the future, it IS the future. Heroes kept trying to show these horrible possibilities and then backing away from them to maintain the status quo.

My big issue with Stranger is it teases a lot of Deep Culture stuff for The Others— rules and rituals and people in specific roles (like Isabelle)— which never comes up again. Shortly after S3 we lost much sense that the Others were working toward a specific goal, and more just a vague stewardship of the Island in…

Though, if your central thesis is "Too many secrets nearly destroyed SHIELD", staying in hiding to stage a coup against the person that was appointed as the commanding officer is hardly a strongly justified move.

Heroes's biggest problem was it kept trying to catch the lightning in the bottle of the first season by more or less playing the same four chords over and over. Each season it set up an interesting idea, but then did nothing because they wanted to slink back to the original characters not knowing what was going on…

"like another episode that didn’t move the audience any closer to the finish line."

I would think most of them he'd already done. "Machine gun on a car key remote. How quaint."

At least Eddie seems to think it's bullshit, so points to him.