The Lost Season 5 Finale Made Me Rage Quit
Yeah, so I just finished season 5, and I think it's safe to say that the only reasons I will be watching season 6 are the sunk cost fallacy and my sincere (and likely misguided) hope that we'll find out if Walt is actually magic or not.
The two part season finale was the first episode of this show to legitimately piss me off. Stranger in a Strange Land came close, but this is the one that really did it.
I'm convinced that the writers have forgotten how to write female characters. The number of times this season Kate and Juliet were straight up not included in key discussions/walked out of the room so the men could talk/changed their allegiances and intentions on a dime without any rhyme or reason was confounding, but it all came to a head here where neither woman does anything of consequence that isn't in service of one of her two shared male love interests.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Even more egregious was the fact that Ilana never once thought it would be relevant to mention that John Locke was in a coffin (I think that that would have been a relevant thing to bring up at least once, you know, considering that the Man In Black version of him was just straight up walking around without a single issue). That STANK of plot contrivance, and as a logical character decision held absolutely zero water.
Also the reveal that the reason Danielle's people got sick (at least in part) was because they were exposed to a hydrogen bomb in a weird creepy temple makes no sense given that she never once mentioned the temple, or the glyphs, or anything about that. Imo the writers clearly thought of that explanation after the fact.
But far and away the worst, most disrespectful, most insane thing that this finale tried to pass off as sensical and in fact earned was the reveal that the only reason Ben had cared about the island all these years, the only reason he had ever tried to protect it was because he wanted to one day be good enough to see Jacob. That not only ruins his character, but it muddles everything we've seen of him up until this point, and completely counteracts seasons worth of evidence that at the end of the day, Ben's concern is the ISLAND, not himself. Ben can make selfish decisions (CC Juliet), but not when it comes to the safety of the island. To protect his people and the island, Ben makes calculated, precise, sometimes wrong, and often heinous and cruel decisions, but the guiding thread has ALWAYS been that it's what he wanted most for the island. And it's never been implied prior to this finale that there was a deep-seated, angsty reason for that pattern of behavior.
If it's only going to get worse from here, then it's certainly going to be an extremely bumpy ride.
