24 is done, Day 5 wrapped up nicely in one tight bow with a cliffhanger that was actually compelling and nail biting.
At the end of Day 4, our hero Jack Bauer walked off in to the sunset persona nongrata, he no longer existed, he was dead and preseumably safe. this obviously wasn’t going to the case with day 5, and admittedly day 5 just did not stop in its suspense. apparently the show’s producers and writers have done away with the dragging sub pluts (although apparently they always, always have to involve a sibling or two and, it never fails, a mole -which initself is becoming predictable) and relied instead on pure overdrive.
the problem with 24, in general and always has geen, is its dialogue: it’s stilted, forced and unnatural: all in all it sucks and oftentimes just does not make any sense.
24 is truly a show where actions speak louder than words.
LOST wrapped up as well and truly it was a very satisfying season finale: jack, kate and sawyer have been taken by the Others; locke and ecko are missing (although not presumed dead, like desmond); charlie finally makes it to first base with claire, and michael drives off in a boat with walt. and to top it all off: desmond’s true love has apparently been looking for him as an ice station are apparently one of the poles caught the electromagnetic event set off by desmond.
the show has definitely evolved past it’s shipwrecked roots, with the introduction of the hatch and the stations throughout the island: the hatch proper with the button, the medical lab, and the observation booth. it looked like there might have been a fourth, but it turns out it was prop used by the others. we know that it’s some sort of experiment and researchers from all over the world had participated in it, but is it still going on? and what is the point of it? is it a Lord of the Flies kind of thing or something that has gone completely off course?
next season promises to be about the others, “the good guys”, as henry gale put it, who is apprently their leader. the wrters/producers are weaving a pretty intricate web here and while it’s fairly complex, its complexity makes it very fragile and i hope they’re careful with it. lest lost suffer the same fate as ALIAS which fell apart, collapsing under its very premise.
alias is finally done and over with, too quick, too rushed, but i’m not sad to see it go. the show disappointed me consistently and constantly since the 3rd season, so watching it to the end was just out of respect. there was simply no more heart to the show: after you literally save the world (in season 4) from zombification a la 28 days rage style, everything else that follows would just be silly.