Please, make it stop.

Usually I am mildly amused by each new episode but this last one just pissed me off.  First of all the previews clearly stated “3 of the biggest Lost mysteries revealed”.  OK, maybe I blinked and missed them, but can someone please explain what was revealed?!?!  That they have freaking backyards?  Are you kidding me?  Nice job Lost producers. 

Another new character?!? For the love of everything holy, please no more characters!  I love that she is the sheriff, but not really.  Kind of like the whole show: it’s TV show but not really. 

Another thing that pissed me off is that Sawyer and Kate had this idiot kid who knows all the answers to the Others, yet don’t feel the need to question the living shit out of him until they find out what’s going on.  No, Sawyer would rather talk about love. 

Yet another Jack-Flashback!  Did we really need to know about Jack’s fling with Miss Me-Love-You-Long-Time tattoo artist?  Apparently he can bang the chick for a month and no one cares, but if she gives him a tattoo, her brother and his gang have to beat Jack silly.  OK, makes perfect sense to me.

And on a final note, if I see one more slow motion, music video ending to this show I’m going to throw my shoe through the TV.

This show is beyond jumping the shark. Tonight it jumped the whale.

Written by on February 22nd, 2007 with 134 comments.
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Desmond goes back to the future

I have really nothing to say about this week’s episode except: WTF?

If anyone cares to share their insight it would be much appreciated!

Written by on February 15th, 2007 with 78 comments.
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The Start of Season 3 – Again

So I tuned in to watch the much hyped return of Lost (with some sense of dread I might add) and I find some douchebag recapping the whole series so far.  OK, the show is now on an hour later, mental note.  The real show picked up with – you guessed it – a flashback of Dr. One Expression. I can’t think of the character’s name right now, but since she always has the same expression on her face, that name will suffice.  We were then treated to all the standard Lost fare: lots of yelling, a chase with shaky camerawork, bad guys that can’t shoot the broadside of a barn, and plenty staring.  Ah, it’s great to be back.  I won’t recap the whole episode but there were a few things that struck me.

First, I think the dude in the techno music isolation chamber was a clever metaphor by the producers to show what they think of the Lost viewers; drooling idiots staring at the flashing images on the screen.  I couldn’t help feel a kindred bond with what the poor lad was going through.

Second, since when do they have stealth busses that go 150 mph?  When Dr. One Expresssion’s ex-husband gets tagged by the bus, no one hears it coming and seriously, that thing is going at least 90 mph.  I don’t know about you, but every bus I have seen, you can hear it coming at least a block away. It’s nice to know that Lost isn’t afraid to blatantly rip off scenes from a movie. 

All in all, it was an anti-climatic return.  At one point, I had flipped around during the commercials and found myself watching Future Cars on the Discovery Channel for about 10 minutes and forgot about Lost.  When I turned back, I hadn’t missed anything.  As usual. 

Written by on February 8th, 2007 with 34 comments.
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When Did Lost, Lose It?

Well, the new episodes are fast approaching and to kick things back into gear around here, we have a guest writeup by David Vellanoweth. 

I have pondered this question for sometime “When did Lost go so wrong?

So I headed over to jumptheshark.com and did a search for Lost and overwhelming (for the people that felt Lost took the leap) the introduction of Ana Lucia was the moment Lost “Jumped the Shark.”   

I disagree that Ana Lucia was the death rattle for Lost.   So, I began to contemplate when I think Lost, lost it. 

There are so many moments I could pick.  Like when the show actually had a shark, way back in the beginning of Season Two.  You might remember.  It appeared after Sawyer and Michael were stuck in the middle of the ocean, having their raft blown up by the “Others.”  Of course, then again, it may be hard for you to even remember Michael.

I could pick when Mr. Eko was killed, which really pissed me off, but I felt the decline of Lost began sometime before Eko got knocked around like a rag doll by the smoke machine. 

For me, I think the moment Lost started to jump was when Michael killed Libby. Now that may seem an old choice to you but, let me explain.

When Ana Lucia, Libby and the rest of the “Tallies” came to the show, I felt they were still part of a greater story that started a long time ago.  There were links you could draw from the new characters to the original characters. 

Bernard was Roses’ husband.  They play with the radio and talk with the Sayid for a second, why back in Season One.  She even had a small scene back way back in good old Season One.  

It felt like they were planned to be a part of the story from almost the beginning.  I could have been totally misled but, at the time I didn’t feel like it.  

I was still onboard even, when Michael killed Ana Lucia, because it still felt like it fit with the story being told but, the minute later when he killed Libby it was clear that her death wasn’t a story decision, it was a business decision.

Since then it seems like more business decisions have guided Lost producers, including storylines that go nowhere to milk ad revenue, and killing Eko because he “wanted out.” 

For me, the “Fall Finale” may be the last nail in the coffin for Lost but, the first body in that mass grave was Libby’s.

So, when do you think Lost, lost it?

Written by on February 2nd, 2007 with 25 comments.
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