On Feb 29, 10:14 am, Captain Infinity <Infin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> I'm not going to actually call it because it seems too soon, but it
feels like
> when future conversations roll around to "When did LOST jump the shark?"
the
> episode "The Constant" may be the one most people will point to. Why?
Because
> last nights episode took a stark turn into another dimension. Up to
now, LOST
> has been mysterious, spooky, and on-the-verge of Sci-Fi but just dipping
its
> toes, but "The Constant" plunges it firmly into the SF genre.
>
> I could live with time dilation, as evidenced by the missile's missing
31
> minutes, and electromagnetic explosions causing precognition, even
Charlie's
> mini-wanderings into the past in a previous episode whose title I cannot
> remember at the moment. But "The Constant" took my suspension of
disbelief,
> pulled it tight, and snapped it. We're in the territory of "anything
goes,
> throw out the rule book, and forget all you know about the laws of
physics and
> nature, 'cuz we can do anything with the story now."
>
> There was a point, a very distinct one for me, where I just shook my
head and
> said "too much, sorry, I don't buy it." That point was when Faraday
told
> Desmond to hop a train to Oxford and look him up, which Desmond does
with no
> problem. After paying lip service to disbelief, Faraday folds Desmond
into his
> secretive experiments and off we go: time traveling mice, Daddy hates
Desmond
> but gives him daughter's address anyway, eight digit phone numbers with
no
> country or area codes, she hates him and kicks him out but keeps her
phone
> number for 8 years anyway and, for good measure, somehow, for god only
knows
> what reason, falls back in love with him while he's missing for eight
years.
> Huh? And yet a phone call is just what the doctor ordered to stave off
a brain
> aneurysm? What? Back up, back up, let's take everything from the
moment the
> helicopter lifted off and throw it out the airlock. Get back on the
island, and
> try again, thanks, where's Locke and Ben, screw this time-travel stuff,
this is
> ridiculous.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of time-travel stories; it's one of my
> favorite themes in SF. But *this* story just rings false on too many
levels. It
> felt slapped together, rushed, and strung across a framework that just
can't
> hold it up. It feels like a different show. An inferior show.
>
> I hope it's just a bad effect of the writer's strike and that the series
can
> pull itself together again, get back on track. If they follow this line
too far
> it will just be too hard to wrap my affection around. We'll see; I'll
keep
> watching nevertheless.
>
> **
> Captain Infinity
I liked the juxtaposition of this ep to the previous episodes of this
season. Every person centered episode has been a flash forward and
Desmond's was a flashback.
All in all, a very well done episode.
Tom
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