Hace pocos días vi el final de la quinta temporada de Lost (Perdidos). Ha sido la gota que colma el vaso: ahora puedo decir que estoy empezando a "odiarla", después de dos temporadas de veneración absoluta y otra dos de vacilación. Los guionistas están jugando a abrir paréntesis sin cerrarlos y a plantear preguntas sin responderlas desde hace demasiado tiempo. El ejercicio tendría su interés si uno sospechara que al final van a poder encajar las piezas del fantástico puzle que están creando (Damon Lindelof, uno de sus autores, asegura que todo quedará bien resuelto en la sexta y última temporada). Pero yo no confío en que puedan concebir un desenlace lo suficientemente genial como para compensar la expectativa y frustración acumulada. Hagan lo que hagan, van a quedarse cortos.
Lo más irritante, sin embargo, no es esta sensación de continua huída hacia adelante (como no sabemos responder a esa pregunta, te ponemos otras dos), sino la poca empatía que están generando unos personajes cuyas actuaciones no son ya creíbles. Parece que el desarrollo de la serie se fundamente en la irracinonalidad de los protagonistas, a quién más estúpido. Nadie pregunta lo que cualquiera de nosotros preguntaría, no parece inquietarles lo más mínimo la acumulación de misterios no resueltos, y aducen razones espurias para tomar decisiones que una persona mínimanete cabal no tomaría. Así es fácil hacer avanzar la serie, pero es inevitable que los protagonistas se conviertan en objeto de burla.
Estoy bastante de acuerdo con este comentario en TV Addict, que se quedó en la cuarta temporada. Leed este fragmento los que sigais la serie:
I recently watched all 4 seasons of LOST in a dedicated marathon, based on the TV Addicts comments and recommendations. First of all, I am indeed disappointed with the TV Addict’s infatuation with what I would essentially term a crap show. This self-indulgent, manipulative piece of programming crap has gone on for far too long. In a lot of ways, I can draw parallels between the cast/storyline of LOST and the fans/viewers. What’s presented is an oblivious group of individuals that are essentially “doing the motions” on an island. They are confused and disoriented and they suspend their belief in all things logical, seeking a deep-rooted explanation as to why they are “there”, why they are lost and why they are positioned in this inexplicable scenario. I view avid viewers of LOST similarly. I am afraid to tell them right now that they are “doing the motions” and are awaiting this grand revelation, this euphoric explanation as to why they have spent several hours (years even) viewing this elaborately and intricately crafted tale; sadly, this revelation will never come.
For brief moments, LOST was clever, well-crafted and retrospective/introspective. However, it was soon obvious that the writers had burrowed into a “rabbit hole” that they have no sensible way to lead the viewer out of. Alice has not only wandered off into this deep crevice, but she has run into a band of singing Dutch maids and after a wild and crazy evening has decided to join a softball team and take up a knitting and Capoeira classes while she was at it. You get my point? Maybe not, but that, in fact, is exactly it. The ridiculous tangential lines in LOST are the most unfortunate. The very instant that the viewer was encouraged to suspend logic and settle in this faux-mystical realm was the exact point when I started to “speed-watch” the series. No longer did one have to understand the characters by figuring out their past stories, figuring out why they’d respond to certain scenarios in a certain way. At some point, it “never really mattered” anymore. So, I watched, and watched, and watched, waiting for the series to allude to some minute distant ray of light, to suggest that all my viewing hours had not been in vain, but at this point, Alice had quit law school and become a professional archer.
Flash-forward, flash-backward … all these gimmicks were inconsequential. Actually, initially, I was fine with a mystical island; I was fine with a few (even several “unexplainables”), but midway through the second season, I knew I was being led down a path from which there was no sensible return. So when a character ran off into this dangerous forest to save a dog, or when someone had a fit and decided to wander off into this dangerous forest all alone (and then the rest of the group gathered a team to go save them), or when someone had a hallucination in the forest that was inspired by their past, I could really care less. There was no sense in any of the actions exhibited by the characters. All that was left was a chaotic assemblage of random events.
¿Vosotros qué opináis de la serie?
(Si alguien va a poner un spoiler, que avise antes)
