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Heed Not The Rolling Wave

Welcome back to the land of the living.

Honestly not sure how much I've got to say about LOST series 5, other than I have really been dragging my feet about watching episodes and I would probably bail here if it weren't for Dogen in s6.

It's not entirely without merit: I really like the ~1.5 of an episode you get past the 1970s timeskip—Sawyer and the gang having made a home for themselves in the past; Sawyer, particularly, having finally resolved the arc with the man who killed his father being allowed to grow, developing a relationship with Juliet. I love all that stuff. I like Rose and Bernard living out in the jungle with Vincent and not really wanting anything to do with the Adventure Gang (though I didn't like their "ah Jack's going to detonate a nuke is he? Who Care" position).

The rest was pretty dire, though:

There was at least one moment in *every *episode of this series where I threw up my hands and wanted to stop watching. Even the good episodes had some real crap in there too. And with the introduction of Jacob we formally introduce ~destiny~, the pre-ordained specialness of the characters–I'm sorry, the *candidates—*which I found to be way less interesting and compelling than when they were just a bunch of people in a plane crash on a weird island with troubled pasts and complimentary skills.

I feel like I've been saying this in every post, but it really is all downhill from here, folks. With one important exception: only one episode to go before it's Dogen time. I can't wait.