5,000 unresolved plot lines and we get an episode devoted to explaining why Miles has daddy issues? I used to actually not mind his character but not he is almost as whiny as Ben. I felt like I was watching a hybrid Ghost Wisperer and Dr. Phil episode. On the plus side, I didn’t see any gun cocking at all, but I did count at least 5 “that’s not important right nows”.
Also did anyone catch the Star Trek commercial? Wow. Nice to know the same techniques from Lost will now be applied to ruin the Star Trek franchise.
Written by on April 16th, 2009 with 403 comments.
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I’m baaack. Today I suffered through not 1 but 2 episodes and am now caught up. That a lot of suckitude in one day. So tonight we got another Kate flashback episode complete with grocery store juice box drama. Then Kate goes to see two women who I really can’t even remember who they were. That’s the problem when you have a show that has probably a hundred characters; its just about impossible for the average viewer to remember them all without some giant flowchart or spreadsheet. Maybe I have blocked the trauma of 5 seasons of filler episodes with throwaway characters. Anyways.
Tonight I was impressed with Jack of all people. He actually grew a set of balls right for the first time! It was almost like in the Grinch when his heart grows 3 sizes, except Jack grew a pair of cajones to the delight of us all. Good choice. Screw Ben, that little bastard.
Written by on April 2nd, 2009 with 276 comments.
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Damn. OK, I missed another one. I am NOT giving up on you guys. I am have 3 episodes in the Tivo bank to catch up on. I was planning on watching the 2 shows tonight, but had a chance to go out with some friends and had a great dinner and bottles of wine. So please discuss here and I will jump in when I catch up. I’m sure it sucked though. Maybe 9.2 on the suck on meter? Am I close?
Written by on March 26th, 2009 with 243 comments.
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I missed Lost tonite, discuss amongst yourselves please. I’ll catch it online later.
Written by on March 5th, 2009 with 341 comments.
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So let me picture the writer’s meeting that led to this show. “OK, we are in the 5th of 6 seasons, we have over 50 characters all with loose ends we need to tie up. What should we do? Hey, how about we introduce some NEW characters!” “And let’s have those characters act just like all the other ones, you know, hide things from each other, don’t answer questions, hell, we can even get them to cock a gun!”
The whole Locke thing was pretty anticlimatic being that:
a) We already knew Locke would die.
b) We already knew Locke would live.
I guess my biggest problem with the whole episode is that it wasn’t even the first time. Ben already killed Locke! Furthermore, it didn’t work the first time. So now we have Ben killing Locke again, and once again it didn’t work. What’s the point? Ah screw it!
Written by on February 26th, 2009 with 155 comments.
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Jack said it best to sum up this episode, “This is ridiculous”. At which point all of America shook their heads in agreement. They start and end the show with the same scene which makes the whole middle pretty much irrelevant. It’s not even worth recaping.
There is something I have been meaning to address. The biggest problem I have with the show now, in fact it should be placed on the original top 10 list, is that no one ever answers a question. If there is ever a chance to advance the plot by one character explaining something to another, they pass. Then the other person never even has a problem with it. Need some examples?
Jack: “Hey where’s Aaron?”
Kate: “Never ask me that again!”
Jack: “Okie dokie”
Jack: “Hey hurley, why are you on the plane?”
Hurley: “It doesn’t matter”
Jack: “Ok, I’m fine with that”
There are at least 5 of those per episode, and they seem to be growing in frequency. So now we have the sucky plot element that will heretofore be called “the non-answer”. These can easily be counted and tallied each episode, much like “the gun cocking” is presently. Actually that would make a good drinking game.
Written by on February 19th, 2009 with 127 comments.
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Say what you want about tonite’s episode, but at least we got sweet Smokey back in all his CGI glory! I could watch that little guy all day. In fact, I think a Smokey spin off series should happen.
What else? Lots of quantum leap jumps, nosebleeds, and for those keeping track at home, I think I counted no less than 5 gun cockings in the first 30 minutes alone. Woohoo, that’s a new record! Loved seeing the donkey wheel again too. I am really enjoying the show again, now that I accepted the absurdity of it all see it as a fun comedy romp each week!
Written by on February 12th, 2009 with 135 comments.
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All of could think of when watching tonite’s episode was enough already! Enough of the Penny boat flashbacks, we get it – you decided to lie. It’s not important. Enough with the birth scenes – it’s almost every episode now. Enough of the quantum leap moments. Enough with yet another jungle trek – seriously! Enough with Sun’s little revenge plot – its boring and we all know she won’t shoot Ben so what’s the point?
Now brace yourself for an actual positive comment: I like Sayid’s storyline and his ass kicking ways, however unlike they may be. Other than that, a fairly forgettable episode, don’t you think?
Written by on February 5th, 2009 with 105 comments.
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Someone commented last week that all you would really need to watch is the 30 second “previously on Lost” clip at the beginning of each show. Really that sums it up perfectly without the extra 59 minutes of filling. I think I may start doing that. Oh ya, tonite was another classic with your standard jungle walks, gun pointing, going on wild goose chases, and people turning down obvious opportunites to advance the story. I guess the true fans will be saying stuff like OMG! OMG! OMG! WIDMORE IS AN OTHER! or something like that. Personally I was just hoping the H-bomb hanging by a thin rope would drop and put an end to our misery.
Written by on January 29th, 2009 with 191 comments.
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So they first have an hour long show explaining the show. To me this is kind of like a bad joke – if you have to explain it, its not funny. A good story should stand on its own. Most telling was when one of the producers said “fans will love this season”. Well thats quite an assumption isn’t it? I think a more humble statement would have been “I hope the fans like this season”. But that’s the smugness we get with Lost.
Not really sure what to say anymore. I am pretty much speechless. I watched the whole 2 hours and nothing really happened. Or at least nothing big enough for me to remember after it was over. I guess we are going to retrace all the events of the previous seasons now from a different perpective/time huh? Great. Flash backs, flash forwards, flash presents, its all the same. First they had to get off the island, now they have to get back. Trekiking here and there across the island… Others with guns… Nothing has changed. It’s just hard to me to give a crap about these characters anymore its all become so absurd.
I look forward to the discussions which always provide more insight that I can in my disgruntled state of mind at this late hour.
Written by on January 22nd, 2009 with 155 comments.
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