LJ Idol Presents:

No, I get your perspective, I just don't agree with it, and that's cool. And I agree that the resolution on the island itself, of the island plot, was really good. And anyone who says that once episode is going to change the way they perceive six years of television is being a little silly. I haven't been happy with the last four or five, but that's not going to affect my feelings about the first season or the fifth season. But yeah, see, I don't like the fact that they constructed this really interesting alternate reality and then just dashed it away with a few minutes of expository dialogue. That's bad writing to me and it wasn't necessary. I would have preferred them to keep it open ended and leave everyone to come up with their own ideas about what the sideways world was, especially since there are some things that really bother me about the suggestion that that ending was the ending that was most important to all those people in the room-- especially Sayid's. Or, if that was what they were intending the ending to be, it would have been better if they had played it in such a way that the Christian Shepherd exposition wasn't necessary. I just hate when good TV and movies have to bring in a deus ex machina to explain everything rather than making it clear through the actions of the characters-- it's show, don't tell, and all.