Pleased to meet you - you’re of course absolutely right to hold Lost up as the worst kind of improvisational writing for television. I didn’t really see any problem with BB - there was always an arc to write to, and everything about Brock’s poisoning made sufficient sense as it played out (I thought the writing for Jesse in that whole plotline was particularly fitting).
You’re right, too, about that clunking montage of scams (who does ‘Nigerian prince’ except by email? I imagine the writers wanted something people would recognise as a scam, but that felt awkward, as did the whole shift in style to accommodate it - it felt patronising, which so often marks a steep decline in quality. I hope not…)
I did enjoy the realisation of why Jimmy had howled in the street the first time we saw the watch and wallet scam, and the Maid of Words enjoyed the final shot - she’s a visual creature and had alerted me to the debt BB owed to Andreas Gursky and his horizontal line landscapes, and noticed the shift to vertical when WW cut his head while shaving. The yellow lines made the same statement, albeit with less subtlety.
