Lost Fans Unite!
I rarely read books based on movies or TV shows—The Day After Tomorrow by Whitley Strieber is a notable exception and I absolutely loved both the book and the movie. I also am not one to rush out and buy season DVDs for TV shows. Having said that, I just may succumb to buying the complete series DVDs of Lost. Probably won’t read the four novelizations that came out because the last one was pubbed in 2006 ( I assume there weren’t more because they didn’t sell well,another incentive for me not to buy) but if anybody writes a new, more complete novel, I’m there. An encyclopedia is coming out this fall, or so I’ve heard, and I might have to get that.
Only those who have been obsessed with Lost all six seasons will understand my complete love of this show. I’ve never missed an episode (thank the gods for DVRs), a feat I can’t claim for any other show even though I’m an unrepentant TV junkie, and I’ve watched many episodes multiple times. You pretty much have to if you want to even pretend to have a clue what’s going on. Just when you think you have one small storyline figured out, the writers throw a monkeywrench into your theory, and that’s a large part of the utter brilliance of this series.
So many aspects of this program are, in fact, brilliant—the writing, the acting, the locations, the filming, the continual offering of opposing possibilities, the sheer creativity behind it all. Others will take issue with my saying the writing is brilliant because, at times, the story is nearly incomprehensible but, on the whole, I think they’ve done a truly remarkable job keeping us invested. If ever there was a watercooler TV show, Lost is it. Most of all, though, I have to applaud the producers’ and ABC’s understanding that there must be an end to it, sooner rather than later, and I appreciate the remarkable step they took when they announced back in 2007 exactly how many more episodes there would be. That took gumption.
Now that we’re approaching the end, some things are getting resolved in ways that are hard to take.
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This week’s episode had us devotees watching with shock and great sorrow as four characters were killed, three of them being major players in the story, and the pacing of the episode and the deaths was both rapidfire fast and emotionally agonizing, especially the deaths of Sun and Jin. The candidates to replace Jacob are being thinned out and we’re not even sure who all the candidates are or how they got to be candidates unless it’s because Jacob physically touched them in a flash-sideways.
Then again, we can’t even be sure these four characters really are dead, can we?
May 23rd is coming up way too fast.  I hear the finale will run a half hour beyond prime time’s usual ending so my DVR will be set for the extra time since I’m sure I’ll be watching it over and over. I’m glad ABC decided against doing a spin-off—one of the few times a network has not tried to take advantage of a hit show—but I kind of hope all our questions won’t be answered. After all, life doesn’t give us all the answers and a great deal of what goes on in this series is based on faith and alternate possibilities. I’d like to hang on to a bit of the mystery.
May 9, 2010
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2 Responses
I am a Lost fan but have not kept up with watching it thiis season. I do have them all recorded on my DVR so I will be starting to view them soon.
I watched the first show but didn’t care for it much. I guess I should have given it more of a chance because I know a lot of people do like it.
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