Two weeks after, looking back, I realize; The last 2 and a half seasons of Lost totally piss me off. I'm going to tell you why. It's going to be a rant.
[spoilers]When it started it was such a gem. A great survival/paranormal/mystery mix. By the end it was almost completely science fiction and ancient magic crap, followed by events that felt very cheap and weird. It left such a bad taste. And that wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take so gosh darn long to put that taste there.
(Though I have to admit I found the short time travel bit fairly cool.)
And what was up with the character development? I agree with the statement that it was largely a character study, but in the process they got rid of almost all likable characters. Okay, hold on. Achem~
They bastardized Micheal, Walt disappeared cold turkey (without ever being explained why he was so gosh darn special), Charlie is dead, not only is Locke dead; he tries to commit suicide, gets killed instead, we get teased that he's alive, oh no wait it's just evil incarnate. Fun. Nice. What else, Claire is homicidally crazy, Daniel is shot, Sayid turns into a weird zombie, background survivors get killed by mystery arrows, Sun is a cooperate badass now, Rose and Bernard just kinda tell everyone go f' themselves, Daniele is shot just like that, Alex is killed in cold blood.. and I'm probably forgetting a few.
Counting only the strictly likable characters, in the end we had Hugo, Jack, Desmond, Sun/Jin (even though they got killed for a d'aw moment too), and Ben (whom has remained true to his character description throughout the show; complex and interesting). You can't have a character study show when it's extremely heavy on sci-fi, moves like a train, flips and turns all the time and has almost no likable characters anymore. It became very weird very fast.
You know the only character that hasn't gone through any weird and strange character changes almost deemed impossible or suddenly died when he became inconvenient to write for? Freakin' Vincent. The dog. Best damn character on the show.
What perhaps pisses me off more is the route they took to the end. I was very fascinated by the first appearance of the man in black and Jacob. But when the time came around to explain their background, I was disappointed. The characters felt hollow, cliche and vague for what they're supposed to represent. They're the cause and center of the whole show. Not only did they drag down these two specific characters, they also dragged down the fascinating element of the island.
I adored ''The Monster'' as just that, a creature capable of judgment by reading a person's thoughts. Finding out he was actually a person that was angry at his slightly older brother for grounding him was more then a little disappointing. And then we have Jacob. The person that is supposed to give you all the answers, seeing as the island is sort of his domain. Except that he's one of those character that never really tells you anything. Which you think would be a priority WHEN YOU'RE PICKING YOUR SUCCESSOR TO PROTECT THE MAGIC ISLAND SUPPOSEDLY KEEPING THE PLANET SAFE FROM GREAT OVERWHELMING EVIL. But whatever, what do I know.
This shows start with 46 people whom you hope will get off the island. Some die, as is expected. And then more die. And more. And more. Then you end with merely a hand full of them, of which a few likable enough to cheer for. That's kind of a bummer. And no, getting together in purgatory and catching the train to heaven together is not exactly to most satisfying end to those that aren't strictly religious. It's cute, but not an end to a show that's almost 100 hours long (not even counting the weeks waiting in between).
Don't get me wrong, I love the show and it's up there with my favorites. I just really dislike how they changed the whole feel of the show over the course of the last 3 seasons.[/spoilers]
And that's why the final 2 and half seasons tick me off.
