Sunday, February 17, 2008
I'm So Over YouThis is me being so sick of Lost. Just when you think they're about to reveal a meaningful hint of WTF is going on, they throw another ten pounds of red herring at you.
Look, people, I remember what happened with the X Files. Just when it seemed like things couldn't get any better, they didn't. In the interstice between seasons (punctuated by a feature film), the producers lost all semblance of control of the plot, and one of the best shows on television jumped the shark. After slapping us around like a Craigslist hooker for the past three seasons, last year's finale brought me back. I thought, "this time, things are going to be different."
How many times did Tina go home to Ike saying the same thing?
I'm halfway through the second episode of season 4, and I'm done. I don't know if the producers of Lost have a grand plan to tie all the wild tangents together. What I do know is they have two more years of episodes under contract to shoot, and they're not going to keep les bon temps rouler by answering questions. Don't get me wrong: I could watch Evangeline Lilly brush her teeth for hours at a time, and, like 100 Years of Solitude, I can always look forward to the possibility of a major character finally croaking once every eight or ten episodes. Frankly, I'm sick of them all, at this point. ¶ 8:47 PM
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LOL. I was a big X-files fan until.... well, probably until shortly after the movie. Great writing in the early years.
Lost: I'm always saying to my wife -- another addict -- for the last 2 or so years: All TV is manipulative, but Lost is *really* manipulative. It's not as bad as a soap opera, but it's getting there (remember Luke and Lara?). And the thing that I absolutely loathe is the flash-backs. It's like a narrator with an eyebrow twitch and a fake smile just came out and said "I'll bet you're wondering why that just happened. Well, let's look at this FLASH-BACK so you can get up to speed, OK? Then we'll continue with the present." This always reminds me of a metro-sexual grad-student who taught a short-story at Pitt Univ, but that's a story in itself, and not so short.
Now my wife informs me that Lost is being delivered complete with "Fast-forward flashes of the Future". So you get to see who doesn't croak? Wow, cool feature. How about a moon roof?
I know enough about the plot that my biggest fear is that Ben is going to somehow end up being a good guy, or THE good guy, so pomos can get their mojo workin'.
Lost: I'm always saying to my wife -- another addict -- for the last 2 or so years: All TV is manipulative, but Lost is *really* manipulative. It's not as bad as a soap opera, but it's getting there (remember Luke and Lara?). And the thing that I absolutely loathe is the flash-backs. It's like a narrator with an eyebrow twitch and a fake smile just came out and said "I'll bet you're wondering why that just happened. Well, let's look at this FLASH-BACK so you can get up to speed, OK? Then we'll continue with the present." This always reminds me of a metro-sexual grad-student who taught a short-story at Pitt Univ, but that's a story in itself, and not so short.
Now my wife informs me that Lost is being delivered complete with "Fast-forward flashes of the Future". So you get to see who doesn't croak? Wow, cool feature. How about a moon roof?
I know enough about the plot that my biggest fear is that Ben is going to somehow end up being a good guy, or THE good guy, so pomos can get their mojo workin'.
See, I go by something along the lines of the placebo rule.
Proposition A is that the producers are slowly revealing a carefully-planned plot one step at a time.
Proposition B is that they have no clue where they're going, and simply make the craziest thing imaginable at each step of the way.
In as long as the show has been on, there's been nothing to disprove (B). No plot thread has ever really died, and they put new pawns on the board as fast as they kill old ones off. It's not like a novel or film which by definition has to have an end, even a crappy cop-out one.
Proposition A is that the producers are slowly revealing a carefully-planned plot one step at a time.
Proposition B is that they have no clue where they're going, and simply make the craziest thing imaginable at each step of the way.
In as long as the show has been on, there's been nothing to disprove (B). No plot thread has ever really died, and they put new pawns on the board as fast as they kill old ones off. It's not like a novel or film which by definition has to have an end, even a crappy cop-out one.
Here's a Lost Parody from MadTV. Pretty good, they nailed Hurley, not that that's very hard. Also the "hobbit" guy is perfect. Most importantly, they mocked the ubiquitous flashback device used to 'splain everything.
I'd heard, via my wife, that the producers swore on a stack of Bibles that your proposition A was true. But that's rather difficult to believe in the age of ratings, etc. If they have a plan it's very "high level".
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I'd heard, via my wife, that the producers swore on a stack of Bibles that your proposition A was true. But that's rather difficult to believe in the age of ratings, etc. If they have a plan it's very "high level".
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