I’m back from Europe! It was amazing. And I won’t talk about it now. I think I’m going to do a slew of posts about the trip, reflections on traveling, etc. But right now, I want to post about the TV show, LOST!
I don’t watch a lot of TV. Like at all. With the exception of forced viewing of The Apprentice, I only regularly watched LOST this year with a little sprinkling of House thrown in for good measure. A few years ago I watched no TV at all, but I’ve fallen in love with LOST. I’m glued to the TV every Wednesday night, event programming at its best. My addiction is so bad that though I was Europe on vacation, I really really wanted to watch the season finale. I tried to watch it online, but abc.com blocks foreign IP addresses from streaming the show. Somewhere in Barcelona I managed to recover from my LOST-withdrawal.
I just finished watching the episode. The 2-hour episode! And I L O V E D it. So I wanted this blog entry to be a love letter to those things in our life which though they’re trivial, produce simple bliss. I love the show for the deep character profiles and nuanced storytelling. The frustrating clues and slowly unfolding mystery. The brilliant acting. Oh, and did I mention the character development? In its totality, watching LOST is an experience. Not a TV show. I don’t feel like I’ve wasted my hour as I do when I watch other TV.
ABC recently announced that they were going to do 3 more seasons of the show, 16 episodes per and it would premiere next February and run for the 4 months straight. Eight months away! Eek. Absence makes the heart grow fonder I suppose.
Are there any other Losties out there? Do you agree that the season finale was ridiculously incredible? If you don’t watch the show– what do we have to do to convince you? Maybe if I said that the first episode of the show might be the single greatest TV episode I’ve ever seen? Or that season one might be the single greatest season of a show ever? OK– that honor might be tied with The Wire season one. HBO sure knows how to make shows! (Entourage is another favorite of mine to watch on DVD– after we filmed The Apprentice and us firees were taken away, we would make it a thing every Sunday to watch the show last summer. Fun memory.)
3 Responses
Suchithra
June 7th, 2007 at 1:29 am
1I think Heroes is WAYY better…Lost leaves you lost too many times
Douglas Brown
July 5th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
2Man - you don’t know what a LOST geek I am! Check out my LOST website at: http://oceanicworldair.com My alter-ego (or is that secret identity?) of Vincent D. (yup the D stands for Dog) Madison runs the airline and I am in the middle of our 4th ARG (Alternate Reality Game) based on LOST. (Hey - we geeks gotta pass the hiatus somehow!) I totally agree that the Pilot Episode was likely the best TV ever. I am pleased that they have defined a set run and ending as a show like LOST does not deserve to go on and on to become diluted and boring.
Suresh Sampath
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
3I am a big lost fan too. The show is far ahead of its time. It’s esoteric yet interesting at the same time. I believe some of the recent story may be related to the quantum physics view of the world described in the recent movie, What the bleep do we know. If you watch the first desmond flashback episode, there is some mention of quantum physics theory when Donovan, Desmond’s Indian scientist friend is walking down the stairs.
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