But, once they started jumping around in time and turning giant wheels to “move” the island last season, I think the show time-shifted the shark. Or at least it started getting a bit silly. However, this season I find myself longing for silly, as they promised answers, yet deliver more confusion than ever.

I think I’ve reached my breaking point, and expected dots to get connected. Instead, they’re introducing new characters left and right, none of whom seem to be the missing puzzle pieces I’ve been waiting for. Meanwhile, the whole parallel timeline thing should not have gone more than 1-2 episodes before revealing it’s purpose–I just can’t care what alternate versions of the characters did until you tell me that it has something to do with all the other crap you haven’t explained yet!!

Plus, the whole Jacob and evil Locke thing already feels like a cop-out, since they haven’t really been characters in the show I’ve been watching anyway. It feels almost like an Agathie Christie murder story where 6 people are in a locked room, the lights go out, and someone is murdered–the killer must be one of the remaining 5! Except, no, it was actually some guy from next door who you’ve never heard of, and he snuck over and did it. Well, I’m sorry, but that’s not how good storytelling works.

You can’t have Jacob behind everything if I’ve never even seen him before until the end of last season. And, throwing in some flashbacks after the fact of him being at critical points in the story doesn’t fix that. Even worse is the evil Locke character. Just because he inherited the body of one of your previous characters, doesn’t mean you can get away without explaining him. It’s time for some answers!

Of course, I’ll stick with the show to the bitter end. After 5 years, I gotta see what they do with it. But, I seriously don’t see how they can answer even a fraction of all the questions. And I’m already not liking the glimpses of answers we’ve gotten. I think Fonzie is turning the waterski boat around to make another pass by the island.

It’s still a great movie, but that struck me as being an apathetic plot device. It diluted the quality a little for me, unfortunately.

(Sorry, my last post was horribly written.)

I love that movie, really, but there’s a small bit in the movie where Tom Reagan tricks a couple of gangsters into thinking he’d murdered the John Turturro character, and, for unfathomable reasons, the gangsters neither double check nor make sure that the deed’s been done. It’s a lazy plot device – or so I thought. Maybe you saw something I didn’t, or could just overlook it?

I’m not sure I understand the question, because the “small bit” where Tommy tricks the gangsters is the pivotal scene of the movie! It’s on the poster above my bed, and everything. And they do go back and check, in another extended sequence: Jon Polito’s character forces the gangsters to take Tommy back to Miller’s Crossing, and Tommy loses it and collapses and throws up (and loses his hat), but then they find a body.