And found, at last

I've finally watched all the Lost episodes which are available. To date, episode 5 of season 5. All 70 episodes. Yes. Though I did not had the liberty, and the time, to actually digest all that pandemonium throughout the series.

Here begins my review of it.(albeit a very unprofessional one). For people who never seen the series, maybe you can read, but you may not understand.

If there had to be major plus point about Lost is that it is able to keep the viewers very engaged in all that drama. The sociology involved is mild relative to the scientific/mystic/arcane phenomenons which strike the island continually. A myriad of mysteries, some which gets solved and some don't. But my gut feeling says that the writers do have a complete picture to the entire story.

Very innocently, this a story of random people from all walks of life meeting on a deserted island, surviving a plane crush. However, four seasons down the road. We discover that the story has extended it's arm to a full fledged time travel theory. Some information I've read suspect four dimensional characters in the series. Throughout, there are characters with an uncanny arcane yet distinct ability to communicate with the incommunicable. Namely, "the island", of the "dead people". The semi main characters do get eliminated along the way, which suggests that this isn't just a heroic endeavor by our team of suave and beautiful heroes waiting to save the day. I have to admit I'm becoming a huge fan of the plot, aka the scientific stuff which are slowly being introduced. The fantasy of time travel, which is substantiated by a very solid scientific theory (albeit fiction), being so real.

The characters are an interesting bunch. John Locke is one mystifying character but sometimes I can hate him so much. He is always doing things unpredictable, completely counter intuitive, and even killing innocent people and backs it up with " I'm supposed to do so ". Early in the series, he referred the death of one of his people as "the sacrifice the island demanded". Despite all that arcane talk, he does really "sacrifice himself" if he would be required. The man that would do anything to satisfy his curiosity. He keeps me guessing all the time. But it gets very annoying sometimes when he does things which show frailness or whatsoever. I really don't comprehend enough. I guess that is another even more mystifying "lost inducing" part of the series.

Michael, the man who killed two of his people just to rescue his son from the "others" who kidnapped him. A typical father who would do anything to save his son. Parental love at it's best. I beg to differ because I feel that he portrays plain and empirical selfishness. A construction worker at the real world, while the mother of his son, does not see future prospects out of his condition. Being unemployed, being a useless bump, I ain't feeling very favorable of his " give me back my son " sorry state because he does not deserve it. Weak, and wussy. Always chasing after his son despite not knowing anything about him and his only reason is "because I'm his father".

In my humble opinion, Kate, Sawyer and the rest are all boring characters. Predictable. Jack can something be a jackass but he is good natured. He does have the image of a democratic leader, and he has leadership qualities marked over all his actions and words. (only until John Locke rebelled against him). Ben Linus is another well carved character. The brains who does manipulate people at every possible corner and finds himself always having what he wants. A sly, possible villain. but no one is actually bad, everyone is always righteous and doing the right thing in his own perspective. Thats why the world is so complex, and difficult to comprehend because sometimes the writer shows a character murdering, and then the next moment he is helping someone who is about to die. You don't really know who the bad guy is. (though after awhile, most characters do become predictable). And when they do, they bring in new characters.

The only downside of the show is that we have to put up with flashbacks/developments of characters we find ubber boring. Hurley for example, was one pain in the neck. Some characters don't really entertain so much to fill that one hour episode because they aren't naturally going to continue the moving plot. Whenever it was the episode of any of the regulars, it would be a decently fun episode because the plot is actually moving along. Inversely, some episodes seem like a total filler. (by the way, mostly every episodes have flashbacks of one character and develops the character. By season four, the style was changed)

Ultimately I still find it a very captivating series. Something worth following and something worth getting hyped up about. I think it beats Heroes hands down (I start to realize that the people writing the Heroes plot aren't that clever). Heroes is known to be cool without a solid plot, always running around in haphazard directions and thus explains why so many people say it sucks to the core. Prison break was good was it lasted. still nice in my opinion. But lost, actually does surpass these two shows.