http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/lost-506-metareview/ Sports and Entertainment News Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://everyjoe.com/entertainment/lost-506-metareview/comment-page-1/#comment-199281 Michael Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:47:52 +0000 http://www.approachinglost.com/?p=3336#comment-199281 Most people are getting it right, but a few of those excerpts just baffle me. It's not that I don't like Allan Sepinwall's review because it's the only negative one -- but because it seems to be negative for horribly misguided reasons. In my opinion, this was the best episode of the season thus far; each episode needs to have its own main character in order to have its own satisfying arc, and a lot of the previous episodes this season have suffered from a rushed lack of focus. Sepinwall has it almost 100% backwards. Film School Reject's Adam Sweeney seemed to get it just right: this episode wasn't as "exciting" as some of the earlier nonsense this season but was better-written, and is an example of why the show has been successful for so long. Anybody can write a sci-fi show with a heavy mythology -- and most of them fail. Lost didn't because of its pace and focus on character, both of which were lost in episodes like "The Little Prince" but found again in "316." Most people are getting it right, but a few of those excerpts just baffle me. It’s not that I don’t like Allan Sepinwall’s review because it’s the only negative one — but because it seems to be negative for horribly misguided reasons. In my opinion, this was the best episode of the season thus far; each episode needs to have its own main character in order to have its own satisfying arc, and a lot of the previous episodes this season have suffered from a rushed lack of focus. Sepinwall has it almost 100% backwards. Film School Reject’s Adam Sweeney seemed to get it just right: this episode wasn’t as “exciting” as some of the earlier nonsense this season but was better-written, and is an example of why the show has been successful for so long. Anybody can write a sci-fi show with a heavy mythology — and most of them fail. Lost didn’t because of its pace and focus on character, both of which were lost in episodes like “The Little Prince” but found again in “316.”

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