The last few episodes of Lost have been great, but are we seeing more filler than usual?
Every scene in a story must do at least one thing: Advance the plot, reveal information about character, or provide exposition/backstory essential to the audience. It can be argued that adding to a thematic might also be on the [...]

“Save the baby Charlie.”

Lost’s episodes that favor character development over advancing the plot are precarious. It’s as though you’re telling a large part of the audience “Keep squirming and we’re going home. Now sit still and learn something.” Sometimes it pays in spades, as it did with Mr. Eko’s backstory in The 23rd Psalm; sometimes [...]

If Jack is a good person who sees the error in his ways and goes emo with guilt, then Kate is his shadow. Kate’s problem isn’t our problem, for the majority of us anyway. Lost’s Neilsen ratings for female viewers 18-35 who are locked up in the federal penitentiary system aren’t measured so perhaps we’ll [...]