And at least a third of said lines are then lines in whatever film Lito is shooting.

Especially given how that's his "power" for the group.

Wolfgang and Kala grew on me, but they definitely have the storylines that are most isolatable from everyone else.

Will, Nomi and Riley primarily serve the arc plot, and whatever story of their own that they have is very secondary to it.

That's what it is! I kept thinking there was something very familiar about him, but I looked up the actor's IMDB and saw nothing else that I had really seen him in.

Yeah, the key groupings were Wolfgang/Kala, Caiphus/Sun and Will/Riley/Nomi, and Lito mostly on his own. And I think that tracks with the director splits.

I really enjoyed it a lot, but I did think Kala and Wolfgang were rather extraneous. And Lito, but I really enjoyed Lito's stuff.

Though I have to admit, Wolfgang's connection to it utterly confused me.

If Cloud Atlas worked for you, this probably will as well. I really loved it.

That was right after the Will/Nomi/Leto/Wolfgang ubersex though. I figured Caephus was also getting some feedback from that.

Is script-doctoring really a thing for fiction like this book? I mean, if the woman was some minor celebrity who had written a "novel" that needed serious work to be readable, I'd get that, but the author seemed to only be an author (and mother of three). I mean, I understand copy-editing would need to be done, but…

I'm such a television experience purist (I like to watch my shows with bluetooth headphones on so I can SHUT OUT EVERYTHING ELSE), so I cannot even fathom watching something like the Lost finale in a bar. It just boggles.

For me, the unfulfilling episode was "Across the Sea". The last two after that were just fine for me. The emotional core of the final episode worked just great, as well as a majority of the whole journey there.

Their moral bankruptcy is pretty easy to justify, given their situation. They can't decide to go brain-free. Their choices are only A. Blaine's service or B. find some other source for Fresh Brains. What options for B do they reasonably have that aren't morally equivalent to Blaine? So they give him a pass because…

I've been seeing the ads various places on the web, and eventually succumbed to curiosity to click through to the promo on youtube.

The real problem with S6 is the real character work— the writers investment— is in the Flashsides, BUT understanding that work and investment only comes in knowing what the Flashsides actually are. Since they constructed said Flashsides to make the audience think they were one thing (an alt-timeline) when they were…

Oh, truly. And there's a lot of really good stuff in Season 5. My biggest problems with it are the things that don't match their foreshadowing (which largely ties into Jeremy Bentham stuff, which for me is a major poisonous tree that retroactively ruins fruit of early episodes), and things it sets up that it drops…

Oh, true. There's a lot of good. But the bits that bug me REALLY bug me.

The Dharma photos were still there, as we saw Sun looking at them in 2007. I imagine the Dharma records were there as well post-Purge, and Harper might have pulled Ben's file and seen that he was shot, that LaFleur's wife tended to him, etc.

I want to say Season 5 is the best, but on rewatch I felt a lot of the moving parts that I thought fit together so nicely, don't. Most notably, everything with "Jeremy Bentham".