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LOST S5 Rewatch: Random thoughts.

Some thoughts I have after I completed (FINALLY!!!) my LOST S5 rewatch after 15 years (give or take):

I'm a "S1-2 are the best LOST seasons" girlie through and through and I haven't changed my mind about that but I will say that S5 is much better on rewatch. One of the arguments against LOST is that the show, eventually, focuses more on the characters rather than the plot and/or more on the spiritual/symbolical meanings rather than the actual mysteries. Well, I've come to the conclusion that people who feel this way absolutely need to rewatch S5 because S5 is plot-plot-plot-plot, explain-explain-explain. S5 is a whole big recap + exposition of the events of the past 4 seasons. Emotions and character developments are either reduced to zero or even completely moved to the background. In hindsight I can see how this was a necessary move in order to "end" the series with the overhated S6. Do I have to like it? No, but do I appreciate how the writers have tied up the vast majority of the loose threads before... "moving on" with the more emotional part that is S6? Yes, I do. It IS a remarkable writing feat, ngl.

Speaking of characters and exposition... kudos to the actors and the people behind the camera work because they really carried the (scant) emotional load of this season. First of all, some characters (I'm looking at you, Kate and Sayid) have been completely assassinated this season and I just hate it. If I still care about them is because of the work that was done in previous seasons and the work the actors have put in this season to TRY and make their characters... feel like they're actually fleshed-out characters rather than cardboard cutouts of bygone characters. Aside from that, on a more general note, it must've been quite hard to act if the dialogues are... one exposition after the other. I'm specifically thinking about Daniel and Jack's dialogue in "The Variable" and how it was butchered. It's a KEY dialogue, absolutely CRUCIAL and YET most of it is Daniel re-explaining the whole LOST plot, basically. It's kinda difficult to convey emotions this way and I think the actors did their best with what they had.

I feel like, this season, the audience was given the hard task of connecting the emotional dots of the story and I'm not sure I like that. I mean, on one hand that was, in hindisght, a good thing because S5 gives us lots of juicy "fanfiction gaps" that are quite rare in a show like LOST. The major one is, of course, the "Dharmaville Years". They're basically ambrosia for fans and fanfic writers because they provided the comfort of domestic life with the drama that are the lives of Sawyer, Jin, Juliet, Miles and Daniel. On the other hand... MEH. I personally want to SEE how the characters develop their relationships or these don't feel "earned". This is why I said that the actors did the heavy lifting because, for instance, Josh Holloway has very good chemistry with Elizabeth Mitchell + they put in the work, as I've said. So they're beliavable to me, BUT I'm still left, as audience, to build their relationship with my imagination because the writers gave us crumbs. I guess that ymmv on this but this is how I personally feel about the subject.

My favourite episodes are "316" and "Follow The Leader". I hope I'll be able to finally write some serious meta about those two episodes because they are That Good, so good they make me want to write long essays about them. Least favourite episodes are "He's Our You" and "Some Like It Hoth", sorry you guys have to sashay away.

S5 confirms Juliet Burke as one of the most important characters in the show and I really liked to see that, although it was also very difficult to see it because her story is pure tragedy. My only "J'accuse!" is that they've reduced her story to Sawyer's new love interest and I'm sorry but no. Thanks to the power of subtext + previously established character arc + my own personal wishful thinking I've managed to trasform S5 Juliet in a character that's more than mere love interest. But I only have to thank myself for the work that myself has done. And my fellow Juliet lovers in the LOST fandom, you guys are the best.

S5 confirmed, to me at least, that Ben Linus is the NECESSARY addendum to the trite "Man of Science vs Man of Faith" dichotomy. I really need to write something about his relationship with Jack specifically this season because it's driving me crazy. I don't want to take the shine off of Ben and Locke because that would be stupid and, frankly, impossibile (Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn acting together is a thing of beauty. They're so talented yes, but also they have insane chemistry and it's just pure joy watching the two of them together on the screen), but Ben and Jack is an underexplored topic. I mean, S5 opens with an episode called "Because You Left" where basically Ben manipulates an actively suicidal Jack into thinking that everything that happened was HIS (Jack's) fault because he left the island... I think Ben's influence on Jack goes wildly unnoticed, partly because Jack himself "dumps" his failutes onto his "inability" to believe John but... is this really true? Ben's captivity in the hatch was what really put Jack and John on opposite sides so perhaps there's something more behind the man of science and the man of faith... or, maybe, there's someone, a man... "behind the curtain" setting the stage for the actors to enter it...

I have more things to say but that's enough for today, I feel like I've blabbered enough! I want to thank you all! This season was so much more enjoyable and fun to watch because I had you guys to share my unhinged thoughts about LOST in the year of our lord 2025 with! <3 thanks! <3

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HEAR YE, HEAR YE! Episode one of Roll for Fanfiction (inspired by Adventures in Aardia’s “Roll for Sandwich” series) has been posted!

Check it out right here, and enjoy! Episode two is already in the works.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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photo of all time wow (creds: mcwexlered)

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I, for one, like Roman numerals.

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i love when i can smell my perfume on myself like damn girl you smell delicious

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liking armpit hair is a sign of wisdom and emotional maturity

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Would anyone be interested in beta reading a Kate/Sayid fic,,, I’m almost finished with the first chapter,, it starts the night of What Kate Did and I plan on making it continue through season 2 all the way to mid-season 3/late season 3, although I’m not sure how many chapters there will be. I’m hoping to shoot for 15-20 or more

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Jan Sluijters - Maannacht (1910)

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fiona apple is releasing a new song next week about the impact of pre-trial detention on especially Black mothers.visit lethergohome to learn about to learn about the injustices perpetrated against the 160,000 women and girls incarcerated in the united states every day and see a preview of fiona's upcoming song.

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The O.C. ↳ 2.09 The Ex-Factor (requested by anonymous)

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i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

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Shannon on the island