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Better Mentalist Watching site? and LOST season 3

fishers64

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I've been watching the Mentalist for awhile now, and for that purpose I've mostly stuck to the producers' website CBS.com in which to do so. Recently though, that particular website has found a way around my ad-block software, which I find to be annoying. So do you all know of another website in which to watch the show? preferably one more AdBlock-friendly? (It has to be free - if I wanted to pay to avoid the ads I would use iTunes. :P)

 

The second thing I've been doing is checking out DVD seasons of LOST out of the library. Recently I straggled my way through watching Season 3, and so I ask...does the show get any better? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE !!!)

 

I ask this because of empirical facts. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of the show (plane crash/tragic things going on/lots of creepy/ :( stuff ) Seasons 1 & 2 at least established a pretty clear sense of mystery and a firm guiding hand of logic to move the plot along. There's a lot of drama and some pretty emotional stories and moments that go in, but it's easy to see that as par-for-the-course when you have a lot of plane crash survivors - and there's nothing wrong with those :). Season 2 was the best, because not only did they have all that, they had ratchet-level suspense to go along with it. And most importantly, the end of Seasons 1&2 were knockouts that made picking up the next season a no-brainer.

 

Season 3 was blarghy. No sense of mystery, the plot careening off in random directions, no sense of logic. The main mystery I think was supposed to be the Others, the main inhabitants of the island. It could lead me to conclude that a group of people don't make for a good mystery, but the problem I think was that the main motivation for the Others was never revealed. This leads me to conclude that (as many people thought, perhaps rightly) that the writers never thought through the "why" of the Others' motive. The "Looking Glass" plot came out of nowhere to randomly solve a main central obstacle that should have been resolved in a way that made sense.

 

Sayid just shows up with the plans for the station. Who gave them to him? Juliet? Diana (the French woman, in case I'm glitching on the name) Mackinaw?

Most importantly, the ending was just a big depressor.

 

Perhaps more importantly, it took me four weeks each to watch Seasons 1&2. (2 might have been a little shorter - I fairly plugged through that one. :)) It took 15 weeks to watch season 3, and while I did finish it because once I start something I must finish, I can say that I definitely had to force myself back into it more than once.

 

So is it worth it to watch Season 4?

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Reznas

LOST never makes any sense, but it will go down as one of my favorite shows ever. Season 4 is worth the watch. It's as confusing and mind boggling as ever, but it's still good stuff. The drama is ever present, like every other season.

 

By the way, if I recall (I watched the entirety of LOST years ago), the French woman was the one who gave Sayid the plans.

 

-Rez

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fishers64

LOST never makes any sense, but it will go down as one of my favorite shows ever. Season 4 is worth the watch. It's as confusing and mind boggling as ever, but it's still good stuff. The drama is ever present, like every other season.

 

By the way, if I recall (I watched the entirety of LOST years ago), the French woman was the one who gave Sayid the plans.

 

-Rez

Yes, but how did the French woman get the plans? That was never explained by S3, and it should have been.

 

Also, I would disagree that "LOST never makes any sense". Seasons 1&2 make sense...at least in terms of "plane crashes on mysterious island with wacky physics". 3...was just confuzzling. I'm sure if I watch S4-6, it might unwind logically and be explained, but at this point I'm unsure as to whether it does, or it just gets more convoluted than S3 left it.

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Reznas

S4-6 will leave you asking lots of questions. S1-2 were not nearly as confusing, but regardless, they left some things hanging.

 

Has the French woman joined forces with the camp yet? Has she taken them to a radio tower yet? If not, then I'm pretty sure you won't find out about the plans until Season 4 or something. I've forgotten so much of LOST, so I may be wrong, but I think that later you'll find out more about the plans? :P

 

-Rez

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fishers64

Has the French woman joined forces with the camp yet? Has she taken them to a radio tower yet? If not, then I'm pretty sure you won't find out about the plans until Season 4 or something. I've forgotten so much of LOST, so I may be wrong, but I think that later you'll find out more about the plans? :P

 

-Rez

Yes, she has. The radio tower thing is the end of S3.

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