Even though I successfully called the early island appearance of Charles Widmore on LOST last week as one of the "soldiers" (ask my friends at work...I did), I'm a bit disenfranchised with the season so far this year. And here's my problem:
It's too damn complicated.
Not only are there people off the island, off in the future (I believe they've been off for 3 years now), the people left on the island keep moving back and forth in time. Tonight it was 1954. And it was also the present (I believe the 3+ years since leaving the island puts Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, and little Aaron--not to mention Ben, Desmond and Penny--in our current time frame). And some other time period, at least at the very end. I half expected a dinosaur to come lumbering out of the bush during the episode's one and only time shift.
It's obvious at this point that the whole Locke is dead issue has to do with time travel. They have to take him back to the island at a specific point in time when he's still alive. I'm expecting Doc Brown to show up in the DeLorean any week now. Maybe he'll haul the body back.
And while this year is enjoyable, they're making me work too hard for that enjoyment. All this time travel stuff makes my head hurt; I see double and blood rushes from my nose. I'm light-headed. It shouldn't take so much brain power to understand a TV show. I appreciate the effort, but if--in the end--LOST boils down to issues of time travel and God, I'll feel like I've lost 6 television seasons of my life. If I wanted either of those I'd watch reruns of Time Tunnel and Highway to Heaven.
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