What's Hot: Segment Ratings for "The Other Woman"
What's Hot: Segment Ratings for "The Other Woman"
Sledgeweb's Lost Stuff users who participated in the Segment Ratings this week in the Live Group Watch showed their overwhelming dislike of "The Other Woman," giving it the lowest overall segment ratings of any episode this season. Members have also given "The Other Woman" an overall averages rating of 6.82%. This shows a sharp decline from last week's overall average of 8.61, and falls even below "Eggtown's" low 7.06. For a closer look at the segment ratings, click the continue reading link below.
During the opening segment, Juliet sits quietly in her house and gets a visit from a psychiatrist named Harper. We're given a little mis-direction, that has become a normal during season 4, when Juliet comments on how she doesn't enjoy being a celebrity. For a brief moment we all wonder whether we had once again been fooled, and that this episode would feature a flash-forward instead of a flashback. Things are quickly straightened out when we see Juliet emerge from a house in the middle of Othersville. Even this opening segment scored lower than any other opening segment this season, so far. Segment two, in which we see Dan and Charlotte following a map to the Tempest, another Dharma Station, and Jack and Juliet following their trail, scored the lowest ratings of any segment up to this point in the season. By segment three we saw a small increase, but segment 4 became the overwhelming winning segment in this low rated episode. It's hard to say whether it was a bikini-clad Juliet drinking wine on the beach with a married Goodwin (who appears to have sprung for something other than "Dharma Wine") or the fact that Ben finally revealed to us that Charles Widmore is behind the people on freighter that drove the ratings. Regardless which of those scenes made this segment "work," it was all down hill from there, with the final two segments plunging all the way down to the very bottom of the ratings scale. It is also interesting to note that this is the only episode this season that the members of SWLS have voted the final segment of the episode LOWER than the preceding segment. All other episodes this season have seemed to dip slightly during the middle of the show, and then end with a bang. "The Other Woman" seems to have done the opposite in our member's minds.
"The Other Woman" was the weakest and worst episode this season, according to segment ratings as well as overall average episode ratings from the members of SWLS. Although the information we learned about Charles Widmore's involvement and interest in the island (assuming we believe Ben this time) was a nice to finally have confirmed, it didn't provide us with enough of a "wow" factor to carry through the slow opening, the slower chase of Charlotte and Dan, and the anti-climatic shutdown of the Tempest chemical agent. Let us know what you think of the segment ratings in the comments below! Do you agree, or disagree with the graph? Why? Make sure your opinion counts by participating in the Live Group Watch area of the site during live airings of LOST to rank the segments!
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I agree, we are sick of the 'run around'. I'm at the point where I'm getting more and more upset that no one's pistol whipped the truth (or any truth) outta Ben. And I'm a peaceful person. I'm so over Jack and Locke being emo already. This episode was blah.
Maybe the ratings reflect on how everyone is basically tired. Tired of the run around. "The Beginning of the End" is what we were led to believe. Well I guess that is why many are waiting impatiently....oh and short break followed by another long hiatus. I think it's just our way of saying that we're pissed. Writers strike or not.
What does it tell us when the episodes with the lowest ratings are female centric? Poor writing or a population of mostly males who take these
surveys.
I enjoyed this episode since it focused on the island. I did not enjoy "The Constant" until I watched it over agin. With a frame of reference I did enjoy it more.
I would give "The Other Woman" an 8.0.
Nah, this episode wasn't bad. Definitely wasn't worse than Eggtown. I thought this was a well-rounded episode. It had all of the elements anyone could want in an episode of Lost.
the ending was bad cause we didn't hear Ben answering Locke. and i don't understand what did Dan and Charlotte actually do. they started and ended something obviously very risky; but those scenes in the station were entirely silly
I'm gonna have to agree with QuiQ, I don't understand the low ratings... Yeah, it wasn't the best episode of the season, but by no means was it worse than "Eggtown", I mean, c'mon people. We finally got to see Ben's weak side (Juliette). We now know that there's something that people can use against him, his creepy affection for her. I think this episode will be more important than people think, and they'll realize this later on in the series, maybe as soon as next season. This will be one of those episodes that we eventually come back to and say "AHA!!" Trust me, this whole Juliette/Ben thing is gonna play a big role later on.
Perhaps with the segment ratings the producers will realize that anything involving Jack/Kate/Juliet is just so BLAH.
I'm not surprised by the segment ratings at all. There was no real excitement present. This episode felt like it could have been a fan fiction side story and all the "Answers" we got were just things most people online were already assuming, IE Widmore looking for the island.
Very meh.
The reason why this episode was terrible was that they had 20 MINUTES until the end of the episode when Locke asked Ben who his man was on the boat. 20 MINUTES! AND THEY REFUSED TO SAY WHO IT WAS! I do not need to see Jacke and Juliet making out, just tell me who is on the sodding boat!
yes, it was horrible.
"What are you doing out!"
Not really all that great of an ending...
I agree that each increase from one segment to the next should indeed have been an increase, and the same with the decreases, but I would have expected the graph to be shifted up a bit more and the tall peak to be flattened just a bit.
Yeah, I was a little shocked as well Qui. I didn't think it was the best episode this season, but it was better than Eggtown! And I especially liked discovering that Charles Widmore has a direct and definite involvement in the island. But I do think that its one of the first episodes that didn't have a real good cliffhangerish ending, which is probably why it dipped so low at the end. Who knows.
I don't understand the low rating. Up until now - all we could say about Ben with certainty was that he was an evil, evil man. Now... now we see some of his real motives in regards to particular characters. Oh - and that's he got his moments of psychosis.
I could go on... I'm just especially shocked at the rock-bottom rating for the last segment.