5) The outrigger. Yes, it's a tired plot point that has little to do with actual events. But it's still a big thing and a metaphor for how ****ty the show got with mysteries and letting things go. They were about a dozen scenes in the season where characters moved from one camp or island or place to another, at least half the time using outriggers. Any of those times they could have used it and been done with it and nobody would ever complain. Hell, Ilana getting shot by their past selves would've been 1000x better and cooler than the ****ing "Oh hey, remember Arzt? BLOWED UP!" and given her some last words. It could have devastating impact on the characters (momentarily because they'd all forget the next episode) because their past mistakes would've caused this event to happen and it carry a theme into future episodes. But no. She's drops the dynamite too hard and blows up. And she's never mentioned again. Everything, EVERYTHING, was put off way too long. Most answers we got towards the end were rushed and ****ty. "But that's how all answers are to you guys! You'll never be satisfied by the answers!" Bull****. We're unsatisfied by crappy five second explanations to mysteries that have gone on for five seasons (that don't really make sense putting everything together) because you guys pushed it back so many times you no longer had any room to devote even a sub-plot to answering it. Just a quick, brief, stupid scene.
The outrigger is also a mystery or plot point that's brought up but never explained or utilized. Lost loves this. What about how only a certain sword can kill Smokey and only if he's never talked to you? What about the sickness and how people are dead but not really dead? Why's Desmond so important if Jack can do the same damn thing? Whatever happened to Cindy and the kids?
I don't know. It's been a year and I'm still raging on Season 6.
Also: J.J. Abrams is totally not at fault. He stopped working with the show, as far as I know, at the opening episode for Season 3. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have been at the helm of the show and responding to fans forever. Abrams gets a lot of undue flak, I think.
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