First New LOST Since November
"24" starts another uninterrupted season on Sunday, and I'm glad for it; I really wish "Lost" would take the uninterrupted route next year. I'm glad they did that recap before the new episode; I had actually forgotten about Michael talking to Walt on the computer. I guess the holidays are good for making you forget a lot of shit.
The main reason I wrote this is because earlier today cruising the Web I found a lot of detractors of the show saying it was really losing it's step. I find "Lost" to be one of those shows you get into or you don't. It's not really an episode by episode thing; it's kind of an experience all on it's own. So, I don't really know how anyone knows if it's slipping or not when none of us know where the hell this is leading.
I could see a couple years down the road if it keeps repeating itself, and the continuity starts becoming more confusing than engaging (ala "X-Files" season 6 and on or "Twin Peaks" after Leland Palmer was outed as his daughter's murderer). But we're only what, about 36 episodes into the thing? Which amounts to 48 days on the island.
The arguments seem to lean toward more characters being added, and the ones we fell in love with last season are getting less and less attention. I just like to think there is a gameplan here. Although my wife was wondering if they had Echo's tie-in to the heroin shipment planned from the beginning. I'm thinking probably not, but so what if they came up with it on the spur of the moment, it worked. It tied yet another character to something on the island and deepend the mystery.
People, I guess, have always got to find something to bitch about; hell we wouldn't have this blog site if that wasn't the case. And I don't pretend to be the know it all on "Lost," but this will go down (hopefully) as one of the most unique experiences television has ever given us. I think it's a little early to start trashing it. If you want to watch something worth trashing, check out "Rodney" or "The War at Home;" now that is some frightning television.
posted by Jonathan @ 1/11/2006 09:28:00 PM
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I've read a number of online discussions about LOST and the bitching is about how we don't know more answers by now, and how the creators "obviously" don't know where it's going, and they're making it up as they go along, it's another TWIN PEAKS, and so on.
I still love it, and the ratings show that it's still one of the top shows on television. Most people who actively watch the show aren't going to be bitching.
But I do take issue with the people who want all the answers now. Talk about destroying a show quickly. Don't we want to keep being intrigued, and see it go several seasons, before we know EVERYTHING? There's that "I don't want to waste my time if the answers are crap" mentality.
Last night's episode was freaking great--it answered questions and raised new ones, and I imagine if the show was like that all the time you'd have less complaints. But when it's just a "character development" episode with no mythology, you get fickle customers.
And I agree, Jonathan, I wish that this was a nonstop season rather than having the "mini-cliffhanger" a month or so ago and having to wait to see what the hell happened. Of course, it comes back and we're still kind of in the dark, which is another one of those things naysayers hate.
I DO have a slight hangup about cliffhangers like this. Like, last episode Michael is typing on the computer and apparently conversing with his lost son (we, of course, don't know if that's true). Next episode we see him, he's looking for guns--but he had to have followed up after seeing "Dad?" show up on the screen. He had to have written something like, "Where the hell are you?" or something like that. But the show makes it out like he saw "Dad?" on the screen and then the session was over. Later in the episode, he DOES follow up, but long after he initially made contact. It's just a continuity problem I have with a lot of TV shows when they make some big revelation. The next episode forgets about the scene but it retains the information. You know what I'm saying?
Anyway, beyond that, it's all good for me.
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