2) Stagnation: "What Kate Did" to "The Long Con" 2.09-2.13 - Though two or three of S2's best episodes are in here (and one in everyone's bottom three), it still feels like the show's going nowhere... even though there are lots of answers, revelations, and game changers. It's still very quittable
I gave up either at What Kate Did or very shortly after. I know that was one of the last episodes I saw.
And Henry Gale is Ben right? He seemed pretty cool, and the actor is from Iowa which is always a plus for me. I have seen a couple random episodes with him, I mostly just remember one where he had a ghost living in his cabin that he took orders from (I think it ended up being the Good island god guy).
It's like a friend of mine tried out Firefly but quit because she just wasn't enjoying it. It had some good characters, but the episodes were boring. When did she quit?
Shindig. You can't really fault her too much for that, right? Shindig's a really mediocre episode and she's only had the Train Job and Bushwhacked before it, both of which are completely forgettable episodes.
I loved Shindig. I know I am in the minority here, but I really do love that episode, it is in my top half of Firefly episodes. Also, Safe is in my bottom three (Heart of Gold, Bushwhacked, Safe). But I will stick with a show for good characters and bad plot (see No Ordinary Family). I will almost never stick with something for good plot and bad characters. That is what LOST was for me.
most of the characters were falling out of awesomeness by that point.
Herein lies the problem. There was no "falling out of awesomeness" for me, there was "going from mediocre to bad". As I said there were only a few characters I liked or cared anything about after one season. Hurley, Charlie, Sawyer. That's it. And Charlie was mostly because I was still enjoying making Hobbit jokes. So them going downhill in season two gave me no reason to keep watching. And I could not stand watching Kate become more and more of a Mary Sue. I think I may have seen The Long Con? I think my sister may have had me watch it to try and get me not to quit.
There's a certain character coming up on both Maniac's and my lists that I will freely point out how I thought Shannon's character could have gone, how I thought the writers would have developed her. I was wrong and disappoints me a bit, but at the time, I thought Shannon was going to be incredible (or at least attempted to be).
Okay, now I'm intrigued.
Christian Kane in that warehouse combat scene. My most recent memory of it was that the initial charm was lost and that it was kind of hokey.
God I hated that scene. It was just ridiculous.
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