A Complete Review of 'Lost' Season 3

'Lost', Season 1, revolutionized the TV drama like nothing else. From the intelligent use of overarching metaplot to profound character exploration via flashbacks, 'Lost' scratched the itch that every TV-holic had, but couldn't reach. Season 2 brought even more of the same, but explored greater mysteries as it uncovered new layers of suspense like a Russian doll being exposed to its minute, yet intrinsically dense core. Then Season 3 came along. Well, to say the least, it's something that can't be described in just one sentence.

At the beginning, the initial six episodes of Season 3 hit the ground like a ton of bricks in a very bad and a very disappointing way. In an attempt to "reinvent" itself, producers began to throw in more sex scenes, more needless violence (namely against and through Sawyer), and pointless back stories that really didn't seem to add anything new (e.g. We get to find out that Sawyer spent time in prison, but conned his way out of time-wow, big surprise. We also find out that Jack's a control freak who tends to cry a lot-haven't we been through this?). And all this doesn't even include the major gripe that, from the beginning of the season, the producers tried to "sneak" in two new characters that no one's ever heard of or even cared about without any explanation. Paulo and Nikki? Who the heck are they? Oh, apparently they were always on the island with the survivors, but they just never spoke up until now. To me and to anyone, that was just very weak and very lazy on the part of the writers.