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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
I don't know how you could dislike that episode.
The point with Sayid all along was he COULDN'T redeem himself. Even in the alternate timeline he stated he's struggled for 12 years and he just can't overcome it. He's ALWAYS been a killer.
The evil in Sayid won. It's not a happy ending, and I like that.
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I don't like it for the reason I said -- for the better part of 5 seasons Lost was about the characters, who were nuanced and multi-faceted, but now it seems like the characters are being minimized or dumbed down into pawns to line up on either side of the good Jacob vs. evil Smokey battle royal.
Yes, Sayid's always been a killer but he has never been evil. He's been willing to kill when necessary, but wantonly knifing the hippie 2nd in command was completely outside anything the character had been capable of before. But because Smokey needs so many on his side, he's turned into a caricature of who Sayid was for 5+ seasons.
"Locke" is less interesting because he's no longer wobbling between faith and doubt -- he's now a one track record whose only source of interest is that he knows a secret.
The rest of the characters just pop in and out, to be used to drive the Jacob vs. Smokey story along. To reiterate, they've stopped being anything but pawns.