And that about sums it up…
November 30th, 2006 by TheCore
I’m just about out of patience with Lost.
And I’m pretty damn patient.
I’m giving J.J. Abrams and company the rest of this season to get the lead out, or else I’m bailing until it’s all over, after which I’ll just Bittorrent the whole thing.
The best possible example of what I’m talking about is IGN’s Top 50 Lost Loose Ends.
A show less than three seasons old should not even have 50 loose ends. I mean, my God, they’ve let most of them lie fallow so long I’d forgotten about them. (And so have most folks, or else the show would never get away with such nonsense.)
So guys, take a page from the books of Battlestar Galactica and Heroes and have something actually happen in an episode or two.
kthx
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I give Lost the benefit of the doubt. They DO resolve mysteries from time to time. We now have a pretty good idea where the polar bears came from. We know that the other’s aren’t tropical hillbillies. We know that the “monster” isn’t an off-screen T-Rex. We know about the hatch (hatches). We know what happens when an actor on the show gets DUI.
I’m hopeful that as the rest of the season goes on, we learn more. But so far, the key for me is this: When they DO reveal something it tends to WORK. I’ll stop watching when they reveal something and it turns out to be complete garbage.
Answers, huh? Let’s see…
It’s implied that The Others had the polar bears in cages, but if so, we don’t know where they got them or why they had them, or why they were released or how they got to the main island.
The Others aren’t hillbillies, but we still don’t know their deal.
OK. The monster isn’t a T-Rex, it’s something completely unidentifiable. A cloud of semi-sentient black smoke… Yeah, that clears it up.
We know that there are hatches, but we only have a vague idea of how many or what they were for.
Yep… Sounds like nothing but answers to me.
Hell yes, Corey!
Lost is a bunch o’ atmosphere and pensive looks and not much else. The writers have *no idea* what they are doing. This is the same thing that happened with X-Files.
They have written in so many bizarre, obscure, and contradictory plot threads that there is no revelation that is ever going to unite them all. Hell, Alan Moore couldn’t tie up the disparate plot points now. And, boyo, if he can’t, nobody can.
Actually, that’s a lie. Alan Moore *could* do it. But there is no one on the Lost staff with an IQ or ability level even-thinking-about-maybe-sorta-on-a-good-day-with-some-heroin-induced-visions even approaching Alan Moore.
So yeah, they’re screwed. At this point they are the same place X-Files was after about six seasons (give or take)…
Fox X-Files story meeting, Dec. 12th, 1998:
Chris Carter: Where the hell are we going with this?
Writers: Shit, we thought *you* knew, dude.
Chris Carter: No fucking idea.
Writers: Should we have Mulder and Scully stare at each other meaningfully some more?
Chris: Shit yeah! That’s great. Did Rupert Murdoch call about the movie yet?
The End.