So, yesterday i hosted my own private Lost party. And man, i just cannot believe it. What a cliffhanger, so many unanswered questions, who will live, who will die? What's with Walt? And what the hell is down that hatch?That's right, i am still catching up and just finished season 1 of Lost. My current theory is that there will be a House of Leaves tie-in episode where Locke will climb down and run into Stephen King wandering the halls of the house.
Lost is an amazingly remarkable show, though, i think they do miss artistic opportunities by tying everything up together to neatly in a tv-shaped package. The flashbacks in any given episode invariably tie-in to whatever will happen later in the episode (those of you who often experience flashbacks know this is not the way they function in real life) & there are just too many damn cliffhangers, which i understand is a part of the medium itself, because of its serialization, but still, sometimes it seems like Dan Brown is a guest creative director on this show.
But, all in all, it's just too good to be true. Well written, good looking television that's popular. After finishing Season 1, i so desperately needed to know what was down there, i bought the first episode on iTunes... but then episode 1 had such a cliffhanger... well, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Anyway, happy Thursday everyone & know that you have my love & support in coping with your summer Lost withdrawl.
The show will never get "better". The first hour was basically a stupid soap opera until they saw the four toed statue leg. The second hour was better, but, still, they could have condensed it into one hour of awesomness.
ReplyDeletewell said (though i know of no statue legs, 4-toed or otherwise). They stretch out the 'special events' to maximize ad dollars, and the art suffers...
ReplyDeleteJust like when you make some of your plates bigger to put a big 'dunkin donuts' sign in the middle...