We’re only about two weeks away from the big day! Dude over at Mattson Creative came up with some pretty spiffy looking, retro, minimalist posters to use as LOST premier party invites. I’m totally using the numbers one (pictured first). I really like the turquoise VW one well. These are pretty rad. Hurley says: nice job dude, but don’t ever say those numbers again.
And so my hunger begins.
Anticipation mounts.
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Nearly everyone I know is highly, HIGHLY anticipating the forthcoming, and regrettably final, season of LOST. All the questions will be answered and what will become of our castaways is finally… wait for it…
…wait…
insert figure skating here.
insert luge here.
That’s right folks. While no official broadcast schedules have been announced. Rumors are that the Winter Olympic games are most definitely going to cut right into the middle of LOST season 6 after just a couple of episodes. So as of now, LOST is scheduled to premiere in January. Then it will be cut off for at least a couple of weeks before resuming again in March. Let me be the second to say, “fuck the Olympics.”
With LOST off the air for at least another five months, I’ve started up soemthing new: “Weeds.” An easy to show to get into right away. Funny, entertaining, decent acting, passable script, good looking women and Kevin Nealon. So I finished season 1 and onto season 2 this past week.
They changed to opening theme song for season 2! Seriously, wtf? This is one of the very few show (maybe the only show) I can remember ever watching* (at least recently) and actually sit through the opening song because I enjoy it so much. Now it sucks. Ah well. The show is still good.
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*My parents would let me stay up an extra 10 minutes on Friday nights after “The Dukes of Hazzard” so I could listen to the theme song for “Dallas.” I still think that shit is the mad note. What other opening theme songs for a TV show are good enough that you can watch them over and over and over and not get sick of them?
NOTE: There are NO Spoilers in this post, its safe to read.
As much as we fans of Lost cannot seem to shut up about it, and can generally agree that what we are watching is something special and ambitious that pushes the envelope of both science fiction and suspense, most of us are well aware of the show’s flaws, and bitch about them almost as much as we heap praise. Some people watch the show for the characters and the character development, while others, like myself, are really there for the island mythology and the mechanics of the show’s storytelling. Lost is a behemoth of a show, with one of the largest casts and one of the most convoluted narratives ever attempted on broadcast television. With so many balls being juggled it is no wonder the show trips up now and then, and it is almost miraculous that it has stayed this relatively coherent considering that Lostpedia counts over a hundred different mysteries posed by the show during its five season run. The following is a gripe list, and while it is mostly directed towards Lost, the observations are often general enough to apply to similar shows (i.e., Battlestar Galactica, for how great a show it is, still resorts to some of the same tropes). I am sure I have left something out so please add in the comment thread if you see an omission, or if you plain disagree with my choices.
Please remember to add spoiler warnings to your comments when needed. Nothing in my list is spoilerific.
1. Do not inventory the living characters on the front of dvd cases
2. Do not balk at killing someone when an episode ends with character being shot in chest
3. If you are going to have so many damn characters kill some off regularly
4. Do not stagger mythology episodes amongst character driven episodes, the show should flow without interruption
5. No more self-contained episodes that transgress the logic of the bigger story or the behavior of characters thus far established
6. Never have a character who is suspicious of a character turn their back mid-conversation
7. While some degree of miscommunication is necessary to keep intrigue alive, suppose that characters gossip outside of the mandates of plot
8. No guest star names in opening credits
9. Do not wait until last second to defuse detonation
10. Dead is dead (see #2)
11. Depict appropriate amount of shock and disbelief when characters exposed to reality-altering scenarios
12. While the Giacchino score is cool and all, sometimes silence is golden
13. Rather than resort to filler episodes, linger longer on reactions (not in a soap opera way but as to let the characters breathe)
14. Despite what most everyone else thinks, the beginning of season 3 is exactly the right balance of character and mythology. Keep to that.
15. Do not create mysteries without an organic exit strategy that goes beyond staggered out reveals (as much work put into thinking up the
mysteries, twice as much effort must be made to think of how to cover your tracks at every point of the storytelling)
16. Veil yourself in familiar myths but use only as a tactic to disarm audience
17. Resist archetypes when fleshing out character, we should not be able to anticipate responses so mechanically
18. More Jack Beard though.
19. No more red shirts, the characters you have need to be characters with stakes, all else should be scenery
20. Moratorium on starting episodes with a future event and the rest of episode working from past forward to that date
We’re only a couple shorts weeks away! Another exciting season of “LOST” is nearly upon us. The beauty of JJ Abrams’ creation is not so much in the story, characters, plot or dialogue (though all those things are great!), but it’s talking about the show with friends and co-workers for the next seven days. Here at RowThree is no different. If you want to talk “LOST,” this is a good place to start.
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