So, I just wanted to get this down before (and if) I ever change my mind:
I'm drunk, but I think I'm still in my brains enough to know that I LOVED the way Lost was resolved. Specially the 'sideways timeline'. There were a lot of things that weren't answered but to be honest at this point I didn't expect every answer. I think I
m actually satisfied.
And the ending was SO SAD and so heartbreaking but somehow SO PERFECT for this show that I just cried and loved it. It really brought it all home with the music and oh god so sad. But so fitting
So there.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
My thoughts on Lost, because why the hell not.
The last Tuesday episode of Lost airs tonight, and I'm freaking out just a little bit.
See, I don't think you can understand this unless you've been watching the show since day 1, and haven't missed a single episode on the very night it aired. You don't understand the immense, frustrating journey that this damn show has put us through for the last six years. It's been a hell of not knowing anything, long and horrible hiatuses, scheduling shennanigans and over all a desperate feeling that the writers don't know what the hell they're doing.
And now it's ending and it's a big fucking deal to some of us. I've never been a Lost apologist or anything close to it; anyone that knows me knows that I've screamed "I HATE THIS STUPID SHOW" at my television more times than I can count. I know it has major flaws and that some episodes were utter piles of crap. I know that the dialogue was sometimes clunky and that I don't think I've ever hated a fictional character as much as I hate Kate Austen.
But still, I kept coming back. Because it was just that goddamn addictive. I think it required an awful lot of willpower to have stepped away from this show when it was at its worst (say, that one episode where we found out how Jack got his tattoos...the one with BAI LING in it) and I know people who did that. I couldn't have. Because...well, I have no power when it comes to television, and a show as good as Lost could be sometimes just keeps pulling you back in and won't let you go. Plus, there were a lot of really hot men to look at.
Oh those bastards know what they were doing, alright.
So, tonight is the last weekday episode, and the whopping 2.5-hour finale airs Sunday, and I'm gearing myself up for some serious disappointment. And I have a pretty simple reason for it: I don't trust the writers. Sure, they can be downright brilliant sometimes, but they won't fool me into believing that they had every move calculated before they put it in the show. From experience, I know they're just not that good. If they were, every single episode would feel as compelling and important. Even if something at the end would make most of it make sense it's still just not very smart to leave episodes dangling. What I mean is that for a show to be truly brilliant, for a mystery to be seriously great, you need for every single part to be as important and everything fit.
Now I know it's completely unrealistic to ask that every single question be answered. I know that and I'm not expecting it. I just want to feel like the ending fits. Like it was worth it. I'm prepared to not like the ending, as long as it's not a cop-out. If that makes any sense at all. I just know that we'll be talking about this for months on end. I just hope it's not like The Sopranos or Battlestar Galactica, where most people were left disgusted with everyone involved in the show.
So, just make it good. Make it compelling and make it fun to watch. That's all I want at this point. I don't want every question answered, but I want it to make sense. I want the writers to respect the viewers and not cop-out. I want them to pull out all the stops and leave us completely stunned.
I also want Kate to die, but that's pretty horrible and I know it won't happen but still. I hate that chick.
I'm sad it's ending, but I'm glad the pain will go away. I've never loved or hated a tv show so much in my life, and I suspect I never will again. And for that alone, this show was a complete success to myself and to a lot of people.
Well. There wasn't much point to this post other than I can't stop thinking about tonight's show and I'm going crazy. This is what not having a job does to me: it makes me freak out about things that I know have little importance in the large scheme of things. But that's the fun part, isn't it?
See, I don't think you can understand this unless you've been watching the show since day 1, and haven't missed a single episode on the very night it aired. You don't understand the immense, frustrating journey that this damn show has put us through for the last six years. It's been a hell of not knowing anything, long and horrible hiatuses, scheduling shennanigans and over all a desperate feeling that the writers don't know what the hell they're doing.
And now it's ending and it's a big fucking deal to some of us. I've never been a Lost apologist or anything close to it; anyone that knows me knows that I've screamed "I HATE THIS STUPID SHOW" at my television more times than I can count. I know it has major flaws and that some episodes were utter piles of crap. I know that the dialogue was sometimes clunky and that I don't think I've ever hated a fictional character as much as I hate Kate Austen.
But still, I kept coming back. Because it was just that goddamn addictive. I think it required an awful lot of willpower to have stepped away from this show when it was at its worst (say, that one episode where we found out how Jack got his tattoos...the one with BAI LING in it) and I know people who did that. I couldn't have. Because...well, I have no power when it comes to television, and a show as good as Lost could be sometimes just keeps pulling you back in and won't let you go. Plus, there were a lot of really hot men to look at.
Oh those bastards know what they were doing, alright.
So, tonight is the last weekday episode, and the whopping 2.5-hour finale airs Sunday, and I'm gearing myself up for some serious disappointment. And I have a pretty simple reason for it: I don't trust the writers. Sure, they can be downright brilliant sometimes, but they won't fool me into believing that they had every move calculated before they put it in the show. From experience, I know they're just not that good. If they were, every single episode would feel as compelling and important. Even if something at the end would make most of it make sense it's still just not very smart to leave episodes dangling. What I mean is that for a show to be truly brilliant, for a mystery to be seriously great, you need for every single part to be as important and everything fit.
Now I know it's completely unrealistic to ask that every single question be answered. I know that and I'm not expecting it. I just want to feel like the ending fits. Like it was worth it. I'm prepared to not like the ending, as long as it's not a cop-out. If that makes any sense at all. I just know that we'll be talking about this for months on end. I just hope it's not like The Sopranos or Battlestar Galactica, where most people were left disgusted with everyone involved in the show.
So, just make it good. Make it compelling and make it fun to watch. That's all I want at this point. I don't want every question answered, but I want it to make sense. I want the writers to respect the viewers and not cop-out. I want them to pull out all the stops and leave us completely stunned.
I also want Kate to die, but that's pretty horrible and I know it won't happen but still. I hate that chick.
I'm sad it's ending, but I'm glad the pain will go away. I've never loved or hated a tv show so much in my life, and I suspect I never will again. And for that alone, this show was a complete success to myself and to a lot of people.
Well. There wasn't much point to this post other than I can't stop thinking about tonight's show and I'm going crazy. This is what not having a job does to me: it makes me freak out about things that I know have little importance in the large scheme of things. But that's the fun part, isn't it?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Sunday Hot Post: The Men of Lost
In this edition of the Sunday Hot Post (it makes you happy before Monday!), I give you the men of Lost.
If you watch Lost, you know that it's a mind-buggery of a great show. And you also know that someone up there in casting had the brilliant idea to cast a sleuth of ridiculously good looking people to run around shirtless and sweaty for 40 minutes every week. We are very thankful. If you don't watch the show, don't worry. I'm sure you'll appreciate the post. There's something for everybody on Craphole Island!
1. Naveen Andrews
We start with my favorite. Sayid is the baddest mother on the Island. He's smart, dark and mysterious, and talks with a killer british accent. He also has fantastic hair that looks good wet, dry or all straightened out when he cleans up. It's perfect!
Another one, you say? OK!
Mmm..
2. Josh Holloway
Sawyer is the bad boy of the Island. He's sarcastic, talks in a dirty-south drawl and comes up with clever nicknames. And I think it's part of his contract that he should be shirtless 90% of the time. We don't mind.
And he has dimples? Come ON. That's not even fair.
4. Daniel Dae Kim
His character, Jin, is a devoted--if slightly possessive at first--husband, smart and reliable and doesn't take crap from anybody.
Shirtlessness abounds.
One more:
5. Henry Ian Cusick:
Him and Sayid fight it out for Most Luscious Man-Locks on the Island.
You, um, forgot a button...oh, never mind.
5. Nestor Carbonell
No one really knows who his character Richard is. He's a mystery. He appears to be immortal. And, for some magical, reason, he seems to have been BORN WITH EYELINER (someone on the show even called him EYELINER MAN). It is very hot. And he's hot.
***
Ta-daa!
Oh, wait I almost forgot someone.
Well, not really. But, ok here's a picture of Jack, played by Matthew Fox:
AHAHA! NO, JUST KIDDING.
No one likes Jack.
Goodnight, everybody!
If you watch Lost, you know that it's a mind-buggery of a great show. And you also know that someone up there in casting had the brilliant idea to cast a sleuth of ridiculously good looking people to run around shirtless and sweaty for 40 minutes every week. We are very thankful. If you don't watch the show, don't worry. I'm sure you'll appreciate the post. There's something for everybody on Craphole Island!
1. Naveen Andrews
We start with my favorite. Sayid is the baddest mother on the Island. He's smart, dark and mysterious, and talks with a killer british accent. He also has fantastic hair that looks good wet, dry or all straightened out when he cleans up. It's perfect!
Another one, you say? OK!
Mmm..
2. Josh Holloway
Sawyer is the bad boy of the Island. He's sarcastic, talks in a dirty-south drawl and comes up with clever nicknames. And I think it's part of his contract that he should be shirtless 90% of the time. We don't mind.
And he has dimples? Come ON. That's not even fair.
4. Daniel Dae Kim
His character, Jin, is a devoted--if slightly possessive at first--husband, smart and reliable and doesn't take crap from anybody.
Shirtlessness abounds.
One more:
5. Henry Ian Cusick:
Him and Sayid fight it out for Most Luscious Man-Locks on the Island.
You, um, forgot a button...oh, never mind.
5. Nestor Carbonell
No one really knows who his character Richard is. He's a mystery. He appears to be immortal. And, for some magical, reason, he seems to have been BORN WITH EYELINER (someone on the show even called him EYELINER MAN). It is very hot. And he's hot.
***
Ta-daa!
Oh, wait I almost forgot someone.
Well, not really. But, ok here's a picture of Jack, played by Matthew Fox:
AHAHA! NO, JUST KIDDING.
No one likes Jack.
Goodnight, everybody!
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