The Variable

LOST is getting so good. Don't get my wrong, it's always been good. But there was a definite lag of sorts through seasons 2&3. But holy crap, things are getting so intense now. And while all the time-travel stuff may be really confusing, it's also incredibly well thought out, and is handled so much better here than anything else I've ever seen. Most shows I've seen, it's just like "okay, here's how time travel works, piece of cake" and either they go back and change something right away, figure out they can't change it, or they just keep digging themselves further and further into this hole of changing the past and things just keep looping and looping as they try to change stuff. I also like the fact that they don't really control the time travel, so it's not like they can just do it whenever they want...and that the majority of it is pretty much over and happened the first half of the season...

And no offense here, (I really have no room to talk either because I haven't watched every single episode of the show I'm about to talk about...in LOST watching every single episode is VITAL, which might be the case here too) but I think that's one thing that really turned me off with Heroes. Don't get me wrong I thought the first season was pretty well done, but after that I lost interest. It didn't seem like there was really any reason to keep going, because there wasn't any huge mysteries set up or anything, other than Hiro getting thrown back in time in the finale in Season One. I watched some episodes from the second season and they were just okay for me. And then I saw the first couple episodes of Season 3 and I was just kind of like...okay so pretty much they can keep going back and try to change whatever they want, whenever they want...but that's probably not fair of me to say since I haven't really kept up...sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes there.

Anyways, With LOST, it's like a complete philosophy of time travel and even the island's quantum physicist is still trying to figure out how the heck it works and what the rules are. It's nice because there's at least some rules to it here, and they can't just go and say..."oh yeah all those flashbacks of all the characters that we've let you get to know...yeah those never happened now." I also really like how Jack's character has evolved this season. He has more faith than almost all his fellow LOSTies now, he's done with all the whole coincidence and luck crap and believes he has a destiny, and is willing to let go and let others take charge instead of trying to control everything. So I guess that's my LOST scpheel. After me & my friend watched the episode last night together (when I watched it with him, it was my second time seeing it that night) we sat and philosophied about the show for seriously 2 hours...and then my mind was super tired...but it was awesome...anyways if you don't watch LOST then this is probably extremely uninteresting to you, so I'll stop now. But I will say this. It's not too late to start watching...but don't think that you can start from Season 5...you've got to all the way back to square one, but trust me it's worth it.