The original post: /r/television by /u/SerDire on 2025-03-26 17:14:56.
I don’t mean decisions that are downright bad, because there are endless ones to choose from, like the entirety of season 8 from Game of Thrones.
I’m rewatching Lost and the choice to sideline Desmond for the entire length of season 2 was just downright weird. The back half of season 1 focused on the hatch and trying to get it open. It killed Boone and had John tied up with it for endless episodes and everyone wondered what was down there. Season 2 shows up and we find out it’s Desmond and then we don’t see him again for the rest of season 2 which is like 20 episodes until the season finale.
It’s explained that he tried to leave the island on his sailboat only for the currents to bring him back. Sidelining a character that can give you clues to the biggest mystery up to that point just felt odd. The other characters had to figure out the dharma initiative and the purpose of the hatch with bits and pieces of information here and there when Desmond could’ve outright told them what it did. He just shows them a video, tells them to push a button and then bails.