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Lost (2004)
Some great moments, but overall rather bad storytelling
I went back to rating this TV series from 9/10 while the series was still running to 6/10 a couple of years after they wrapped it up and here is the reason why: LOST had its great TV moments. They had episodes like "The Constant" that are easily some of the greatest achievements in TV history. But those are just a few examples and usually episodes that had a whole completed plot and did nothing for the overall progression of the series.
If you have watched the series from beginning to the end you know that they never had any idea where they were going with the story. They just made up the plot from season to season and put in these mysteries, riddles, unanswered questions and plot lines but never really answered any of it. As a storyteller, no matter if you write books, TV, movies, video games, etc. you have creative control over your story. You decide how the story begins and how it ends and how it has to be interpreted. Of course you can leave things open to interpretation by the audience, some of the best stories do. But if you leave EVERYTHING open to interpretation it becomes a "do it yourself"-adventure for your audience. And that is plainly bad storytelling, no that is horrible storytelling. Overall this makes LOST a bad TV series, despite having its great TV moments.
Breaking Bad: Ozymandias (2013)
The death of Heisenberg
First of all, it was a fantastic episode, maybe the best of the entire series.
The point i want to make is that many people in the reviews apparently misinterpret the episode and the development of the Walter White character. He has not in fact become truly evil now. It is the exact opposite. First he tries to save Hank, because he is part of his family and then he tries to save his family when he realizes that all his efforts to provide for his family with drug money has shattered his relation to them. The final realization comes when he holds Holly in his arms and see that she needs to go back to her mother. The phone call at the end of the episode is just a "show" he puts on for the cops to convince them that Skyler was forced by him all along so that she doesn't have to go to jail when he disappears. This is made clear by the dialogue and his own expression during the call. So we have not seen the rise of an evil Walter White but the death of the Heisenberg and the end of his lies.