“Lost” queries

  • lost-logo.jpgI usu­ally don’t go off-topic in this par­tic­u­lar direc­tion, but last night’s episode of “Lost” is another head-scratcher.

    (BTW, if you don’t do Lost, the fol­low­ing won’t make any sense to you. But if you think you’d ever like to find out what all the fuss is about, do what Greg and I did — rent the first sea­son of it and watch the first show. You’ll know right away if you’re hooked or not. We were, and it’s the only show on right now that I’d bother with. Cer­tainly the only one I’d still be think­ing about the next day.)

    1. Could they pos­si­bly make this show any more com­pli­cated? Sun, Frank and Ben on one island in the present day; Sawyer, Kate, Jack, and most of the oth­ers on the other island in 1977. And Locke, Desmond and Baby Aaron … well, some­where. And Dharma guys, Richard Wid­more, hos­tiles, the French expe­di­tion, and new plane wreck peo­ple to keep straight? Hon­est to good­ness, I never thought I could keep tabs on this many peo­ple. It’s like a Mor­mon fam­ily picnic.
    2. Be hon­est: when Sun hit Ben with the oar, didn’t you think that was pretty great? Peo­ple are always hav­ing to trust that guy and he’s a book­ish, boogly-eyed lit­tle psychopath.
    3. Do we think Ben actu­ally killed Penny? And didn’t it drive you nuts that absolutely no one thought to ask Ben why he looked like he’d been in a train wreck when he got onto the plane?
    4. Speak­ing of Ben, can’t we just tell that there’s a big moral dilemma com­ing to Sayid? Do you kill Little-kid Ben in 1977 so that he can’t kill every­one in the Dharma Ini­tia­tive years later?

    I could prob­a­bly go on all day, but it wouldn’t be a good idea.


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    1. Harry Pot­ter thoughts — w/o spoilers
    2. Too soon?
    3. Putting the “Lost Tomb” to bed
    4. Hollywood’s fear of con­tro­versy, cont.
    5. A post about Tom Cruise

    March 19th, 2009 | Grace | 5 Comments |

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  • Christo­pher Orr 03.19.2009

    I wish Lost would have been set up as a 2–3 year macro-series. It was a really tight show for the first year or two, then it felt like they had to vamp for a few years after being more pop­u­lar than they expected. That added unnec­es­sary com­plex­ity that they now have to tie together with every­thing else. It’s like watch­ing an old soap opera in its convolutions.

    But, it’s still enjoyable.

    BTW, Grey’s Anatomy felt like it had the same prob­lem and even the highly feted Bat­tlestar Galactica.

  • Grace

    You’re right. We stopped watch­ing for a while at sea­son three. But they man­aged to make the sea­son finale com­pelling enough that we hung in there, and I’d say they’ve man­aged to keep it going even after they had to do some of the unthink­able things like let the guys get off the island and give you *some* idea what’s going on on the island.

    But the com­plex­ity is a lit­tle hilar­i­ous some­times. Have you ever tried to explain this show to any­one? It sounds like some­thing from a really bad dream journal.

    Grey’s Anatomy and BG: You’ve named off two of the other shows we’ve thought about try­ing to catch up with. As I said, we’ve found that if you start rent­ing it from the first sea­son, you can come up to speed in your own time. Tried it with Heroes and found out that it’s not our thing.

  • Mimi

    I was dragged kick­ing and scream­ing into the LOST world, and love it. We were behind on sea­sons 1–3, and caucht up and have been watch­ing 4 and now 5 in real time.

    I did love when Sun beaned Ben. And, yes, I do think that’s what they are set­ting up.

    I also watch Grey’s, The Office, and Big Bang The­ory. That’s the total sum of my non-sports TV watching.

  • Grace

    Oh cool, some­one else com­ing from my per­spec­tive. I had got­ten out of the habit of prime­time tele­vi­sion, but the things peo­ple were say­ing about this show made me curi­ous. We’re in “real time” this sea­son for the first time. It’s pretty great to do it on a DVD where there are no com­mer­cial breaks, but that’s the way it goes.

    We were doing The Office, Scrubs and Lost. My inter­est in the other two is start­ing to wane.

  • Anam Cara

    Our col­lege senior watches LOST. His older sis­ters watch Grey’s. His older brother watches almost noth­ing. We watch NCIS, Monk, Psych, and the Hall­mark chan­nel movies.

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