Garoo

Didn’t they say, or imply, that Faraday was dead? Not that I care enough to keep track of who’s alive, but I was kind of operating on that assumption. (Which was stupid on my part, granted. But he’s the one actor who actually had a movie career before Lost — well, Saïd Taghmaoui doesn’t count — so a sudden, definitive disappearance wasn’t quite impossible.^*)

I can’t believe they felt the need to have the time non-paradox conversation again. Does the audience really have trouble grasping that it’s their present in the past? (I know: yes, probably.)

I’m a little sorry they came so close to a Donnie Darko ending — that would have kinda worked. But you still need to explain to me why nothing terribly bad when the hatch finally did blow up.

What bugged me most, though, was that the stranded Losties are the ones who experienced time travel first-hand, yet they still consider Daniel a lunatic because he’s always talking about… time travel. If this was Six Feet Under, you could say they’re repressing the whole thing and taking it out on him; but in Lost it’s nothing more than incoherent.

^* Of course, now that I’ve written this I’m wondering whether the writers did decide to kill him, or had to because he wanted to leave. Has he ever actually accomplished anything relevant to the story? Or does that matter?