How many times do they have to kill Patchy before he just. stays. dead!!??



I'd say that a harpoon to the chest should pretty much stop a guy.



Also, I didn't comment on Jack's admission to Kate that he loves her because well, everyone and their dog knows Jack loves her. Him telling her so does nothing but make for more weaksauce love triangle fodder next season.

What plans to you have for BleepingGeek over summer? I enjoy your site. I really want to know who was in that coffin. Who would we care about that was so lonely no one would attend their funeral? Locke? Michael? Ben?!?!



I was disappointed that Sawyer killed Mr. Friendly especially since Friendly kept Sayid, Jin, and Bernard alive despite Ben's orders.

I had high hopes for the season 3 finale of Lost...after watching the episode (filled with more commercials -- what is the deal with 7 minutes of show between 3 commercials for two hours) I knew that the Lost creative team had thrown in the towel and were just cashing out. The episode should have been 1 hour long minus all the commercials and you would have lost no content.



The forward time shots of Jack really do not make much sense and just damage an a fairly interesting character. A bit of explaination of why Jack was so messed up would have gone a long way...three seconds of video would have been enough. Also, it was a huge waste of time in the episode for very little net effect. I think that people understood that Jack was messed up by the second flash-forward.



What is the deal with bad guys not dying every single time they should? If this has happened once to a character, the next time they are in a position with a wounded bad guy, please shot him/her in the head a few times. The comic book no body, no death thing gets old quickly.



Charlie's death -- stupid and totally preventable. Why did Charlie not go into the main part of the station and then seal the door? He had plenty of time to do it. Also, why not swim out the openned porthole -- he would have fit?



I do have to give the writers credit for having Hurley do the calvary charge with the hippie mobile. It is a nice bit of revenge/karma from the Dharma Initiative to the traitorous Others.



Locke: Why would he go so far to kill the new person but not follow through Jack? Also, why can't anyone say what they know...it would really make things much simpler and effective for people on the island.



Ben: Why in the world would Ben go by himself? If he really wanted to stop the radio signal/phone call, why not go out and do his typical violence without actually explaining why something is important to the other characters? If Ben really is trying to do good, he could have explained things to Kate, Sawyer and Jack when they were captives...some demonstrations of what the island is and what it can do.



If the threat of the new "Others" or should I call them "Boaters" or perhaps "Shippers", would have been much better served with some indication of what they are, what they are up to, etc? At this point, I am very frustrated with some poor story development, poor directorial choices and it appears that Lost is suffering from J.J. Abhrams / Steven King syndrome [develop a great hook into an interesting story, not have an ending/good ending and then throw some really aweful or non-sequitor ending in to quickly rap up the story...See "Alias" and "It" as prime examples. It should be noted that not explaining everything and just leaving the bad guy/monster out there is a perfectly good ending...and usually better.]

Thanks for the comments, manzy704 and Leon!



Manzy704 - I review Lost and Heroes because they're (in my opinion) the two most interesting shows on TV right now. As for my summer plans, the first few weeks will probably be spent covering the new series premieres until I find a few shows worth watching, and then those will be my reviews each week. The comic reviews will continue as usual, but may get scaled back a bit because they're really time consuming (I may just do a top ten each week). Also, I'm hoping to push the film section of the site a little further with DVD reviews and more theater premiere news.



As for the coffin, I'm going to just say the first name that comes to mind: Sawyer. No one came because Sawyer never made friends or had connections until he got to the island. That's also why Jack probably thought Kate would be there. I didn't mind so much that Tom died, because in his dialog he stated that it was Ben's idea to keep the 3 alive, and that he would rather have just shot them.



Leon - thanks for commenting! I agree that my view of Jack is greatly diminished after seeing him like that. I think they did it because from now on, the show will be focusing on how they got off the island and what happened that made Jack become like that. I can only say that it better be something major, or a lot of people are going to be screaming "character assassination".



I'm totally with you on the death thing. When you have a character kill someone, they should stay dead. Well, except Locke that is. I don't care how many times they bring him back to life, he's a great character. Locke killed Naomi because whatever he's learned about the island, or whatever "work" he's supposed to be doing involves keeping people from getting off the island. He sees her as the enemy. He doesn't kill Jack because even though he needs to, he just can't do it. I think we'll see more next season about what kind of horrible thing happens because Locke lets Jack make that call.



As for Charlie, there's no guarantee that he's dead. We didn't see him die, and that's the biggest argument against it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Desmond will grab a tank, quickly swim around to the broken porthole and keep Charlie alive a little longer while they figure out some way to save him. I truly believe that the show couldn't survive without Charlie. He's the father-figure, the best friend, the courageous one.



I think Ben went by himself because a)he didn't want to risk anyone else in the Other's finding out that he's lost control of the situation and b)because he stood a better chance of convincing Jack if he didn't bring an army with him. As we saw, that didn't quite work out for him.



It seems to me that maybe Locke and Ben are right and that the "Boaters" are a group of people that have been trying to find the island for some time. Maybe they're Dharma? Trying to get back to the island and take their base back by force? Hopefully they're a brand new third party that will force the Losties and the "good" Others (like Richard) to join forces against them.



Thanks again for the comments!