Just finished my season 6 rewatch and end of the show

[PhoenixUK]

Sorry @Hopelessly lost, I already finished my s6 rewatch!

As I said in the previous threads, I never watched Lost after initially watching it on TV except for a handful of episodes. So this is only the second time I have watched any of these.

Season 1 rewatch:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...-1-t65117.html
season 2 rewatch:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...4.html?t=65254
season 3:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...9.html?t=65329
season 4:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...8.html?t=65468
Season 5 rewatch:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...-5-t65527.html
and season 6:



LA X - Jacob wants sayid saved, but never mentions Juliet. Is she not a candidate anymore? He doesn't think she has a chance?

sayids passport is from Iran! Bad prop error.

the paper in the ankh says if sayid dies we're all in a lot of trouble. Why? Why is it so bad if sayid dies? Is there something about him that is particularly vulnerable to infection, or key to jacob's plan? I don't like the idea that Jacob knows Sayid will save the people on the sub - why not warn them to never get on the sub then?!

I've just thought of something re the Temple. It turns you into an Other. The temple waters don't just heal you - I think they consecrate/baptise you to Jacob's service. I think it is key to the link between Jacob and the Others, which is one reason MIB goes after it.

Miles looks at dead sayid - knows theres something wrong.

Why exactly was Flocke disappointed in the Others ?! Because they're so gullible? It takes Richard long enough to figure out what Flocke is.

And of course ..... wot happen?

what kate does - a v tedious episode.

Magic ash? Electrodes? Yeah still weird torture. I still don't understand what's going on with the poison. Clearly they know about the candidates, they are v careful to lower their guns with sawyer,and they let Jack go to Dogen. But why can't Dogen poison Sayid or kill him? Why go through all the rigaramole of getting Jack to do it? Can candidates be murdered by non candidates? I'm trying to think of a definite example. If ROUSSEAU refers to alex or danielle, then yes. If it refers to Robert (whose surname we don't know) then he was killed by Danielle anyway. Or worst comes to the worse, why not just lock him up?

The Substitute - still cool watching the Monster's POV.
Sawyer is pretty perceptive to figure out Flocke is a fake straight away.
LOL poor Locke, only Sun wants to bury him, and LMAO @ the funeral.
Jacob's ghost vs jacob's ashes, pfft. Daft idea.
"What kind of animal would you describe yourself as?" is a question that DHARMA apparently asks in their questionnaires, according to the Mysteries of the Universe.

Jacob seems to have a lot of places to hang out. The cabin, the Statue, the cave, the Lighthouse...

Lighthouse - Jack is pretty easy to manipulate, isn;t he? Just bring up his dad and he's putty in your hands. Not surprised Jacob doesn't want Kate to follow - she'd def have messed something up.
"I came back because I was broken" - I do feel sorry for him though - he did what he was told, Faraday made him think the Incident needed changing - and all that happened was Sayid and Juliet died.
*sigh* why does he have to break the nice magic mirror? He could have spied on kate or something. Yet another Jack Hissy fit - the last one, I guess.
Jacob is awfully smug in this episode. I'm guessing he never had any intention of using the Light house to guide someone (Widmore?) in - for that matter, does the Lighthouse even function in that way? Or is it entirely just his way of spying? Did he have it built, or was it there before him? You can JUST about see the egyptian hieroglyphics on the stone walls.

If claire is crazy and infected and the new rousseau does that mean Rousseau was also infected? She's pretty funny in this episode.

The sign in the sideways concert hall says "Welcome all candidates."

Sundown - Sayid is clearly outclassed by Dogen in the fight. Why does he stop - does the baseball remind him of his bargain with Jacob? Just why is Dogen not allowed to kill an infected Sayid? He doesn't kill an infected Claire either.

The biggest question - clearly Dogen knows about candidates and about what Flocke is. Why ask Sayid to kill him? Is it a ruse to get sayid killed? That would only work if infected candidates are vulnerable. If it isn't, surely Dogen doesn't think MIB can really be harmed?
Maybe there's a 3rd choice - Dogen says "Prove you are not evil." Maybe for an Infected person, this attempt to fight the MIB is the best way to overcome the Infection. Maybe this weakens it enough so that when Desmond speaks to him, there is enough of the real Sayid left inside to overcome MIB's influence.

Dr Linus - LMAO @ Hurley and Richard.
Don't think we've ever seen Ben in such a precarious state.
Once again we see Jack in a suicidal position, and fate intervenes to prevent that suicide.

"I'll have you." That scene and the reunion are so sweet, and seeing Ben ask Sun if she needs a hand - like a normal person, instead of as leader of the Others or through some devious plan to infiltrate. These beach reunion scenes never get old.
So how does Widmore find the Island? I don't think the Lamp Post can help ships, it helps approaches from air. Maybe without Jacob, the island is no longer invisible.

Recon - Mostly tedious episode.

"It's kill or be killed." Except he must know he can't be killed by them.
Sideways Sawyer is reading Watership down and Wrinkle in Time. About the only worthy part of the flash is Sawyer watching Little House on the Prairie.

The Ajiran massacre - none of the bodies appear to have gunshot wounds. Doesn't look like Widmore's forces. So who killed them? The bodies were rotting. What reason does Widmore have to lie to sawyer?

Why exactly did Flocke infect Claire, and keep her around? She was a candidate at one point (assuming Littleton is her and not her mother). Not sure why Flocke bothers having this conversation with Kate. Is he just lulling her into trusting him, passing the time, or genuinely speaking his feelings? Claire really is unbalanced - holding Kate's hand, then trying to kill her, then hugging her. Infection seems to leave people deranged but still open to being calmed down by those who love them.

Ab aeterno - I didnt enjoy this episode much the first time and still didn't on rewatch. It's a v mythology heavy episode, we finally see the arrival of the Black Rock, and what happened to the Statue and how Richard arrived, and why the Island is important and why Jacob brings people to the island and why he hides and why Richard is his intermediary and doesn't age and why MIB is so determined to kill Jacob - but it's just not very riveting for some reason. The last 2 scenes were the only interesting bits.

"Ricardus will know what to do" except that he doesn't. He's completely clueless, and does nothing of importance for the entire season.

Jacob attacks Richard straight away, it must be obvious there's no one else around for Richard to be hunting except him. He's a master at waterboarding torture. Nice to see the same ancient dagger. Jacob says that was NOT Isabella on the Black Rock - at least for once they leave no ambiguity.

"No one comes inside unless I invite them in." Is that a Rule? Wonder if Jacob misses his statue. I assume jacob's touch doesn't just immortalise Richard but protects him from the Monster too.

The Package - LMAO @ Sun shouting at Richard. The rest of this episode is very tedious. If Widmore knows about Candidates, why only kidnap Jin? Why not take sawyer (and Kate) as well? I guess that was Zoe's decision. Only redeeming part is Jin seeing Ji Yeon's photos, and Jack and Sun talking at dusk - Jack's promise makes me sad. Poor mikhail loses his eye again (and dies). Sun's aphasia? Sigh; and she writes such BIG notes.

happily ever after - LOL @ Desmond's reaction, poor guy getting dragged back yet again to the Island. Poor simmonds - they have no sense of Health and safety at all in Widmore Industries, do they?! Widmore wants a sacrifice from Desmond - he doesn't expect him to survive the Cork? Why does Widmore keep saying he sacrificed his relationship with Penny for the Island? The EM surge leads Desmond to see his post life purgatory? Meh.

Another tedious episode. OK its funny to see Minkoswki, but thats it. Listening to Charlie - yawn. Eloise's pompous statements - yawn. Desmond fainting in the sideways when he awakens in the real world - pffft. It's all nonsense.

So charlie knows its not real - but isn't technically awake until meeting claire? And then why is it desmond's job to awaken everyone? Is that marina the same place where ben shot desmond?

Everyone loves Hugo. Hugo as action hero leaving the Black Rock was amusing, but that's it. Desmond can see dead Jacob like sawyer - but Richard can't? The Whispers - sigh.

This season they really went all out to wipe out everything. The temple folk were decimated, we again saw a desolate and deserted New Otherton and the Beach Camp, the Black Rock blown up, the Light house mirror smashed. About all that's left are a few Dharma stations like the Pearl and Arrow.

So far in this season:

People go to the temple. Sawyer leaves. kate and jin leave. Kate goes back to the temple. Jack and hurley leave. Kate Jin and sawyer go with locke. Sun etc leaves the beach for the temple. Then goes back to the beach. Jack and hurley meet sun etc on the beach, then eventually meet locke's group. Lots of roaming around from one place to another.

[PhoenixUK]

The Last Recruit, The Candidate.

these episodes were awesome in first watch but now there's not much appeal to them on rewatch. It all just kinda drags on. About the only good parts are watching poor Clare get left behind over and over. At least sideways claire has a nice meeting with sideways jack. David is such a creepy kid.

Oh god, watching Jin and Sun die


Across the sea. Meh. Stupid kid actors. Terrible actress for Mother. The questions here have been debated ad nauseaum on Lostpedia - is a monster involved etc. I won't bother rehashing them here.



What they died for - why does Jacob wait so long to come back? My suspicion - he waited for Flocke to directly be involved in murdering some candidates. It was a risk, but I think he wanted the candidates to hate Flocke enough to commit to the

The End -

whatever you feel about the story, the way it is filmed is just great. All those little images in the opening sequence - sideways Sawyer walking past the smashed mirror, poor ben stuck with Flocke etc. Or jack and Flocke's scene,where Jack says Flocke dishonours Locke's memory, and then we see them peering down into the cave like the hatch.

the awakenings are still so heartwarming. Watching Jin and Sun for example is better than watching Hurley and Libby - compare the relationship over 6 seasons, or something that lasted a few eps of s2. Terry O quinn is such an amazing actor. The creepiness of Flocke, and the hearttouching scenes as sideways Locke. The sheer stubborness of sideways Jack in being the last to awaken, despite Locke and kate trying to help him. I love that smirk Jin has when he calls sawyer "Detective" - he must have been laughing at what sawyer made for himself.

Juliet and Sawyer -
It's wonderful to see Ben and Locke have that final post death meeting and forgiveness.

and of course the best - Jack at the coffin.


How the hell did flocke know the direction to the source? As a mortal he could never find it. Or perhaps it's another example of his great intuition, maybe he just knew where Jack would be. Why does Flocke get to make these demands about who can and can't accompany them to the cave? The Light does indeed look a lot dimmer than in Across the sea. I wonder if either Flocke or Jack knew what they were sending Desmond into - did they expect him to find that cork and uncork it? Or were they both just guessing? And of course we're still stuck with those questions like - can Flocke kill the remaining candidates after Jack took the job?

Poor Jack, with nothing left in his life, and kate trying to tell him nothing's irreversible. Jack tried to get Hugo to leave - if he had, who would have replaced Jack? Ben? Pfft! LOL poor Ben watching hurley leapfrog to the top position. Jacob basically manipulates jack the martyr into taking the job, and jack emotionally blackmails hurley to taking the job. I love how the ceremony of Mother is with a nice bottle of wine, and of Jacob is at least ceremonially blesses water, and then jack passes it on with a nasty plastic bottle. Jack tells desmond to go home to his son -how does he know about little charlie? Why does he make desmond leave - would desmond have died if he suffered a 2nd major EM exposure in a row?

The cave and cork seem to mix the Light and the water - just like MIB's FDW. It does make you wonder if perhaps Jacob copied his brother on a grander scale, to make something to manipulate the power of the island, but with all those corpses, looks like no one could handle the EM radiation long enough to use it (and presumably not even jacob would have survived). It doesn't stop falling apart until Jack reaches out and lets the water touch it again.

The tree falling on ben plot is still silly. How do they get him out? Why do they care anyway? A few hours ago, Sawyer smacked Ben in the face.

Poor Flocke - the last thing he sees before he dies is that bloody island that he never got to escape from. I still felt kinda sorry for him at that moment.

I loved this youtube video of Juliet explaining the Desmond strategy:



And nothing beats that final sequence of the church light engulfing the people as real jack staggers to his death.

The New Man in charge - was ok, nothing special.

Tbh, overall, season 6 upon rewatch is still disappointing, and I think my least favourite season. The sideways are even less impressive upon rewatch than they were the first time. I did keep looking out for things I might have missed, and thought maybe knowing what they are will enhance my enjoyment. It didn't. Some sideways are still enjoyable - the entire Jack, David Locke storylines were still rewatchable (esp that conversation when Jack says he wished Locke would go first in letting go), but the rest were not that appealing. the Kate, Hugo and Desmond were the worst both in original and in rewatch. If it had been a parallel universe it might have been more interesting on rewatch but it isn't, it's their fantasy for what they either wanted or what they feared the most. The mirrors are a nice touch but they don't have any grand meaning beyond the obvious (and a nice nod towards the Light house I guess). I still can't forgive s6 for the time wasted on it, and the fundamental flaws in the concept of the sideways that crop up if you think too much about it (charlie dying on the plane before being revived, why desmond is so frantic to get everyone to the concert ,clare being pregnant with aaron etc). And then the connections of some people - did clare and kate and sawyer really never find anything better off the island?

Some character resolutions are still galling - like the sayid zombie plot; and his awakening is perhaps one of the worst written and filmed. And Richard does nothing all season but run around looking bewildered.

There have been some beautiful moments as we see old friends like charlotte or shannon, and revisit so many old sites like the black rock or the caves or the beach camp or even the Elizabeth.



How does Lost work overall as a series? Despite s6 flaws, I think I overall forgive the inconsistencies and plotholes that are still there. As a whole, it still works together remarkably well. All those beautiful character crossovers - like libby giving her boat to Desmond, or the Numbers recording getting both Hurley and Rousseau to the Island, or the shocking moment when Jack finds out that claire is his sister from her mother. Or the eerie moments - like when Jack sees the v creepy Christian for the first time, or ben and locke entering the cabin. The shocking deaths - like Ben murdering Locke. The gorgeous scenery, the amazing set pieces like the plane or Temple or Dharmaville. Giacchino's music score. The mythology of the Numbers, Rousseau's message, the Dharma stations and videos, the FDW, the Monster, the Light. The mind boggling twists of timetravel with Richard's longevity the key. Jack vs sawyer, Locke vs Jack, ben vs Locke, widmore vs Ben. MIb vs Jacob. The relationships - the torturous journey of jin and sun or desmond and penny, claire and kate and aaron. Jack and his father. That beautiful shot of Jack dying in the bamboo forest with vincent, mirroring his arrival on the island.

There are flaws - like Eko's ending, I don't entirely like the explanation for Christian, some things are left as just being weirdness (Locke seeing Walt in the mass grave), why they made the sideways - but Lost really is a beautiful show - such touching beautiful character moments, and I am going to miss it.

Live Together, Die Alone. Nobody does it alone, Jack. Let it go.

[EaglesBecomeVultures]

pretty much agree with everything.

Especially how they dropped the ball on character resolutions (Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Richard)

[PhoenixUK]

pretty much agree with everything.

Especially how they dropped the ball on character resolutions (Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Richard)

kate was ok. Sawyer was great in the first 2 eps - beating up jack, saying bye to juliet and then saying "Some of us are meant to be alone." After that his long con on MIB was just boring. I can't blame him for not belieivng jack in the submarine though - jack sounds as crazy as he was when using a nuke.

I feel sorry for naveen andrews having such a piss poor ending to act out.

[CameraOne]

Your thoughts were how I felt about S6 the first time around, and I don't have much urge to rewatch it either. I too wonder if the sideways scenes will be more meaningful knowing they already died, but I doubt it. The sideways stories I liked were the ones that actually had new content, like Jack and his son for example. What a travesty to waste such good characters and good actors on retread for most of the characters in the sideways, and walking to and fro, or zombified like Sayid in the island timeline.

[EaglesBecomeVultures]

I'd imagine the sideways scenes to be slightly more 'meaningful' on a character sense, but less meaningful in a plot sense. (And the self-contained plots in the sideways are very uninspired, because they try to mimick what we've already seen in flashbacks, and thus is not exciting at all)

Before we used to think the sideways could affect the main timeline somehow. But now we know that it is not the case.

I wish the flashsideways was similar enough to the real world in a way that they also serve as a sort of 'flashback' (that never happened) for the real world revealing things about the characters had the plane landed.

For example: in the flashsideways we discover that the watch was the payment from Sun's dad to Keamy for killing Jin. However, we don't know if this was the case for the real timeline.

[ben_linus]

Sorry @Hopelessly lost, I already finished my s6 rewatch!

As I said in the previous threads, I never watched Lost after initially watching it on TV except for a handful of episodes. So this is only the second time I have watched any of these.

Season 1 rewatch:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...-1-t65117.html
Season 5 rewatch:
http://forum.lostpedia.com/just-fini...-5-t65527.html
and season 6:



LA X - Jacob wants sayid saved, but never mentions Juliet. Is she not a candidate anymore? He doesn't think she has a chance?

sayids passport is from Iran! Bad prop error.

the paper in the ankh says if sayid dies we're all in a lot of trouble. Why? Why is it so bad if sayid dies? Is there something about him that is particularly vulnerable to infection, or key to jacob's plan? I don't like the idea that Jacob knows Sayid will save the people on the sub - why not warn them to never get on the sub then?!

I've just thought of something re the Temple. It turns you into an Other. The temple waters don't just heal you - I think they consecrate/baptise you to Jacob's service. I think it is key to the link between Jacob and the Others, which is one reason MIB goes after it.

Miles looks at dead sayid - knows theres something wrong.

Why exactly was Flocke disappointed in the Others ?! Because they're so gullible? It takes Richard long enough to figure out what Flocke is.

And of course ..... wot happen?

what kate does - a v tedious episode.

Magic ash? Electrodes? Yeah still weird torture. I still don't understand what's going on with the poison. Clearly they know about the candidates, they are v careful to lower their guns with sawyer,and they let Jack go to Dogen. But why can't Dogen poison Sayid or kill him? Why go through all the rigaramole of getting Jack to do it? Can candidates be murdered by non candidates? I'm trying to think of a definite example. If ROUSSEAU refers to alex or danielle, then yes. If it refers to Robert (whose surname we don't know) then he was killed by Danielle anyway. Or worst comes to the worse, why not just lock him up?

The Substitute - still cool watching the Monster's POV.
Sawyer is pretty perceptive to figure out Flocke is a fake straight away.
LOL poor Locke, only Sun wants to bury him, and LMAO @ the funeral.
Jacob's ghost vs jacob's ashes, pfft. Daft idea.
"What kind of animal would you describe yourself as?" is a question that DHARMA apparently asks in their questionnaires, according to the Mysteries of the Universe.

Jacob seems to have a lot of places to hang out. The cabin, the Statue, the cave, the Lighthouse...

Lighthouse - Jack is pretty easy to manipulate, isn;t he? Just bring up his dad and he's putty in your hands. Not surprised Jacob doesn't want Kate to follow - she'd def have messed something up.
"I came back because I was broken" - I do feel sorry for him though - he did what he was told, Faraday made him think the Incident needed changing - and all that happened was Sayid and Juliet died.
*sigh* why does he have to break the nice magic mirror? He could have spied on kate or something. Yet another Jack Hissy fit - the last one, I guess.
Jacob is awfully smug in this episode. I'm guessing he never had any intention of using the Light house to guide someone (Widmore?) in - for that matter, does the Lighthouse even function in that way? Or is it entirely just his way of spying? Did he have it built, or was it there before him? You can JUST about see the egyptian hieroglyphics on the stone walls.

If claire is crazy and infected and the new rousseau does that mean Rousseau was also infected? She's pretty funny in this episode.

The sign in the sideways concert hall says "Welcome all candidates."

Sundown - Sayid is clearly outclassed by Dogen in the fight. Why does he stop - does the baseball remind him of his bargain with Jacob? Just why is Dogen not allowed to kill an infected Sayid? He doesn't kill an infected Claire either.

The biggest question - clearly Dogen knows about candidates and about what Flocke is. Why ask Sayid to kill him? Is it a ruse to get sayid killed? That would only work if infected candidates are vulnerable. If it isn't, surely Dogen doesn't think MIB can really be harmed?
Maybe there's a 3rd choice - Dogen says "Prove you are not evil." Maybe for an Infected person, this attempt to fight the MIB is the best way to overcome the Infection. Maybe this weakens it enough so that when Desmond speaks to him, there is enough of the real Sayid left inside to overcome MIB's influence.

Dr Linus - LMAO @ Hurley and Richard.
Don't think we've ever seen Ben in such a precarious state.
Once again we see Jack in a suicidal position, and fate intervenes to prevent that suicide.

"I'll have you." That scene and the reunion are so sweet, and seeing Ben ask Sun if she needs a hand - like a normal person, instead of as leader of the Others or through some devious plan to infiltrate. These beach reunion scenes never get old.
So how does Widmore find the Island? I don't think the Lamp Post can help ships, it helps approaches from air. Maybe without Jacob, the island is no longer invisible.

Recon - Mostly tedious episode.

"It's kill or be killed." Except he must know he can't be killed by them.
Sideways Sawyer is reading Watership down and Wrinkle in Time. About the only worthy part of the flash is Sawyer watching Little House on the Prairie.

The Ajiran massacre - none of the bodies appear to have gunshot wounds. Doesn't look like Widmore's forces. So who killed them? The bodies were rotting. What reason does Widmore have to lie to sawyer?

Why exactly did Flocke infect Claire, and keep her around? She was a candidate at one point (assuming Littleton is her and not her mother). Not sure why Flocke bothers having this conversation with Kate. Is he just lulling her into trusting him, passing the time, or genuinely speaking his feelings? Claire really is unbalanced - holding Kate's hand, then trying to kill her, then hugging her. Infection seems to leave people deranged but still open to being calmed down by those who love them.

Ab aeterno - I didnt enjoy this episode much the first time and still didn't on rewatch. It's a v mythology heavy episode, we finally see the arrival of the Black Rock, and what happened to the Statue and how Richard arrived, and why the Island is important and why Jacob brings people to the island and why he hides and why Richard is his intermediary and doesn't age and why MIB is so determined to kill Jacob - but it's just not very riveting for some reason. The last 2 scenes were the only interesting bits.

"Ricardus will know what to do" except that he doesn't. He's completely clueless, and does nothing of importance for the entire season.

Jacob attacks Richard straight away, it must be obvious there's no one else around for Richard to be hunting except him. He's a master at waterboarding torture. Nice to see the same ancient dagger. Jacob says that was NOT Isabella on the Black Rock - at least for once they leave no ambiguity.

"No one comes inside unless I invite them in." Is that a Rule? Wonder if Jacob misses his statue. I assume jacob's touch doesn't just immortalise Richard but protects him from the Monster too.

The Package - LMAO @ Sun shouting at Richard. The rest of this episode is very tedious. If Widmore knows about Candidates, why only kidnap Jin? Why not take sawyer (and Kate) as well? I guess that was Zoe's decision. Only redeeming part is Jin seeing Ji Yeon's photos, and Jack and Sun talking at dusk - Jack's promise makes me sad. Poor mikhail loses his eye again (and dies). Sun's aphasia? Sigh; and she writes such BIG notes.

happily ever after - LOL @ Desmond's reaction, poor guy getting dragged back yet again to the Island. Poor simmonds - they have no sense of Health and safety at all in Widmore Industries, do they?! Widmore wants a sacrifice from Desmond - he doesn't expect him to survive the Cork? Why does Widmore keep saying he sacrificed his relationship with Penny for the Island? The EM surge leads Desmond to see his post life purgatory? Meh.

Another tedious episode. OK its funny to see Minkoswki, but thats it. Listening to Charlie - yawn. Eloise's pompous statements - yawn. Desmond fainting in the sideways when he awakens in the real world - pffft. It's all nonsense.

So charlie knows its not real - but isn't technically awake until meeting claire? And then why is it desmond's job to awaken everyone? Is that marina the same place where ben shot desmond?

Everyone loves Hugo. Hugo as action hero leaving the Black Rock was amusing, but that's it. Desmond can see dead Jacob like sawyer - but Richard can't? The Whispers - sigh.

This season they really went all out to wipe out everything. The temple folk were decimated, we again saw a desolate and deserted New Otherton and the Beach Camp, the Black Rock blown up, the Light house mirror smashed. About all that's left are a few Dharma stations like the Pearl and Arrow.

So far in this season:

People go to the temple. Sawyer leaves. kate and jin leave. Kate goes back to the temple. Jack and hurley leave. Kate Jin and sawyer go with locke. Sun etc leaves the beach for the temple. Then goes back to the beach. Jack and hurley meet sun etc on the beach, then eventually meet locke's group. Lots of roaming around from one place to another.

I'm pretty sure all Others were protected by Jacob, which is why they didnt consider MiB/Smokey a threat to their lives until Jacob died.

[variable]

Agreed OP , S6 is my least favourite season as well .

[onlychild]

I didn't like it the first 2 times I watched it. After 6 months it didn't get any better. I watch seasons 1-5 all the time, but I never watch this one (and probably will not watch again) because the whole season is boring and has very little to do with anything we had seen in previous seasons.
I think it was a mistake for Terry to play Smokey/MiB. I could never work up any bad feelings toward him because he was still John Locke. I know Locke had to die for the ending they came up with, and he had to look like Locke as well. But it neverr played right to me. When you looked at him you saw John, not the MiB we were used to.
Overall, I still give this season a D. Just not up to the standard I had come to expect from Lost.

[Nelly]

i have to agree. It was a shame for me to see Lost go out on what i consider to be a very poor season. What's worse is thinking of what could have been; Darlton have proved that they are not bad writers, in fact they are very good ones, but in season 6 they just seemed to panic and resort to laziness.

Once again, they have a habit of creating what could potentially be a very could storyline, and then concluding it with something very underwhelming. For example, Sawyers feud with Jack, he says he's going to kill him, the audience get excited, then two or three episodes later, it turns out he's changed his mind.
Or Sayid with the sickness. It seemed to open up a lot of possibilities. Was Christian infected? Maybe it would turn out several of the losties had being infected since the crash. But again, a sloppy conclusion to this.
I could go on with the examples, but i think you get what i mean.