All right, all right, I give in. I’ll post about LOST. After last season’s spectacularly hideous ending, I was completely ambivalent about watching the show at all anymore. I knew I would never be happy with whatever cockamamie, half-assed, pathetic excuse for a wrap-up they would try to foist off on viewers, but on the other hand, could I seriously not watch it through to the grand finale?
I think I could not. I’m fairly certain my life would not be diminished in any way by not continuing to view the series. When I think of all the ways the writers have disgusted me, frustrated me, and insulted my intelligence, I get a little angry. They could have ended the thing literally years ago, but they couldn’t just go ahead and fish, they had to cut bait for ten thousand episodes in which they introduced characters for the sole purpose of killing them off. Genius.
However, not watching the show would mean joining the ranks of unlucky souls who have to endure hearing people talk about their theories concerning it.
Ultimately, there were five reasons I decided to continue to the bitter end:
(josh. get some dirt on. you look like a weenie)
I know! I know! I’m sorry! But I have to be honest. Without this lineup, I’d be sayin’ sayonara faster than you can count to 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
Let’s be serious, people. The plot is in a shambles. It has never lived up to the standard it set in its (sniffle, snort, *HONK*) mind-blowingly fabulous first season. You remember the first season? The season full of mystery, intrigue, and strange things that went SKREEEAK!!! SKROOONK!!! RAAAAA!! in the night? The season where Jack was admirable and noble, and Locke was freakin’ awesome? The season before I wanted to wrap Kate in cotton candy and set fire to her?
As it was, the grand kick-off episode did not suck quite as spectacularly as I was prepared for. I was surprised by how fondly I still felt about many of the characters, how fervently I still want everything to somehow turn out all right for them, and how much I enjoy it when Ben looks like this:
oh yeah. he’s confused.
Locke, while not exactly Locke, finally seemed to have a purpose and conviction again, albeit an almost certainly evil one, and although Sawyer did not exactly say F*** off, B****!! to Kate, I’m almost sure that he thought it, and that counts for something, right?
At the other end of the spectrum, were I and my family alone in our gape-mouthed-horror-which-rapidly-turned-to-hysterical-laughter-response to the “underwater island” CG JOKE? And who else wishes fervently that the smoke monster would just go back to being a terrifying idea instead of looking like the Tasmanian Devil doing a little freelance work just to make ends meet?
So, Jacob and The Smoke Monster (who we will call SM from now on, for brevity’s sake), are obviously some sort of opposing Egyptian dieties duking it out with each other in a grand chess match involving human beings as pawns. Maybe they were sent to the island ages ago as some sort of punishment by even higher powers? And Jacob is so obviously going to use Sayid’s body to perambulate around in, but I’m believing that it will be in a benevolant sharing sort of capacity. You know, a capacity that leaves Sayid completely unharmed in the end, when Jacob finds a more convenient mode of transportation.
Don’t pop my bubble, people. It’s all I have.
If the writers of the show hoped to distract viewers from the gazillion-and-forty questions still unanswered by throwing out a few tantalizing clues wrapped up in one or two WTF! moments and plenty of parallel universe scenes to convince us that no way, not ever, nuh-uh, no you DON’T, want the series to end with Oceanic 815 landing peacefully at LAX, then, well…they succeeded. At least for me.
At any rate, I have hope that the season will not be too painful to watch after all.
I agree, I have lost (haha- Not) So much of my mojo for watching the bloody series. *sigh* I think they shot themselves in the foot by taking such ridiculously long breaks between seasons, and then this?! I have to say, I was disappointed in the episode, because still, at this point, there are WAY TOO MANY unanswered questions. It feels like a lot of hype that doesn’t deliver. I am so disappointed too, because I LOVED the show. Now I feel like I am only watching to get closure. I don’t feel as into it as I was.
So sad.
Well, I’ve gotta say that I DID call the alternate reality before Juliet said they succeeded.
I honestly don’t know why the writers think that the “alternate reality” thread was so innovative. What else was LEFT to do but that?
never watched it much, so I am totally…snicker….lost…
Alternate reality? HAHA! I can’t believe they used something so…easy? overdone? corny? old? geeky-sci-fi-in-an-almost-awesome-way? Okay, maybe I can believe it…
This post makes me glad I’m not watching anymore. Taz doing freelance? Best description of the year!
Also, pictures like that first one should be illegal.
my husband showed me the funniest video the other day (youtube?) that was sung to the tune of “Downtown” about all the unanswered questions on Lost. Made me laugh. And you are right, the first season was so awesome, and now, well, it is just so blah (and confusing).
We found the video! It is HILARIOUS…we’ve been watching it off and on for days. So funny. And true.
It makes no sense, it’s crazy, it’s a rollercoaster, it’s eye candy, it’s silly—and I love it all!
I fully go into it expecting that not all the mysteries will be solved. The writers are only human and they weave quite the tale despite their limitations.
I do expect humor, action, and lots of kicking in doors. It features some of the most romantic story lines in TV history—think Penny and Desmond’s Christmas Eve phone call across time. Le sigh.
Covering my ears lalala…I missed the last part of the season finale and finally watched it 2 days ago on abc.com. I was really disgusted with last season and wasn’t sure I wanted to go on…but will probably cave in and watch this season as well.
Oh, yes, please cave and watch! I need people to commiserate with me who aren’t afraid to say when the show is stupid while still admiring its truly awesome moments!
I just finished Season 2, so I couldn’t continue reading this post lest you spoil it too much–just the pictures gave me some questions! Yes, Sayid and Sawyer are worth the watching!! In fact, we named our new kitten Sawyer because when we got him all he’d do is hiss at us, and he continued to hiss at everything new and strange. Plus, he’s got a little “gotee” of black on his otherwise white chin.
So, I’ve heard of Lost. When it started some years ago I was already vested in my only (self-imposed) alloted 3 hours of prime time TV a week – so I just ignored it.
Of course now, it’s getting a LOT of press since it’s almost over. I’ve even been watching the little “late night entertainment-type newsy show” specials about it.
And, I was thinking, “Hey. Last season. This would be a great time to rent/borrow and watch the earlier ones and get ‘into’ it.”
But seeing as how y’all think they’ve done a crappy job, maybe I’ll just save myself some disappointment and re-read the Twilight books instead.
Oh nononononononooooo, MM…don’t even think of reading twilight over watching LOST. No comparison! I didn’t say they are doing a crappy job, not even close! Just a crappy job on the CG, lol…LOST is tons of fun if you can quiet your more analytical side occasionally.
The powers that be will probably mess it all up royally, but LOST is by far the most entertaining thing I’ve ever watched. Great characters! I shall mourn its passing in more ways than one.
It is a testimony to its exquisite and extraordinary first season that no matter how badly they mess up the ending, it will still stand as the greatest show ever on telebishion. The storyline with Charlie getting off drugs alone warrants the accolades, imo.