I have been finding a good portion of the season a bit underwhelming myself.
I have not found the flash sideways to be as enduring as either the flash backwards, or the flash forwards. While they are interesting they serve little to no purpose to what is going on the island (at least as of now), and just seem to be filler in general.
The only purpose it is serving is showing how many of the characters meet in the end anyway eg: (Sawyer with Miles, Charlotte, and Kate), Jack (Dogen, and Locke), Kate (Claire, Ethan, Sawyer), Sayid (Jin, Keamey), Ben (Artz, Locke) etc. They did the same in the first couple seasons as well so it is mildly interesting. I liked Sayid's, and Sawyer's flash sideways, but the others really didn't do too much for me. Plus you know they have to explain why Jin was locked up in the cellar, and other issues that will need explaining.
The on island stuff is great as always and while they are running out of episodes you can tell they are building for a massive last few episodes. If I had it my way they should have done flashback's again this season since the real mysteries they have to end up explaining are on island issues (what actually happened to Claire for example). I also feel they could of done the season without any flashes at all since the season was short for a finalie season to begin with.
I will be sure to keep watching though.
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