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cieo

Lost season 1: A spoiler-free discussion

Feb 14, 2006 01:49

although it's probably a pointless endeavor. Last time I checked, I was the only breathing person in this old US of A who hasn't been keeping up with Lost, yet another J.J. Abrams creation. I just finished watching the eighth episode of the first season.

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subsiding_leaf February 14 2006, 07:29:19 UTC

I must be a non-breathing person, because I haven't kept up with it either. :p

cieo February 14 2006, 07:33:02 UTC

:) Always the literal.

cieo February 14 2006, 07:33:45 UTC

Or, in this case, littoral! Get it?? hehehe.

brujah February 14 2006, 12:03:12 UTC

We're on the same episode. =)

akirad February 14 2006, 12:20:38 UTC

I sat through this for, oh, ten or fifteen episodes? Eventually I just wanted to throw things at the screen. Essentially, they had the makings of a good story, maybe a great story, but they clearly had the overwhelming need to pad it out so that it would go on, and on, and on... Why the constant island-story/character-backstory duality? I hated it! The character story flashback-o-rama either constantly interrupted the flow of the main story, or was edited in to poignantly highlight some lame-ass "connection" between events on the island and events in their pasts.

It was like being slapped around the head with a wet fish - look stupid viewers, character X is doing this on the island; how poignantly similar to events X in their pasts, eh? do you get it? SLAP! do you get it now?

I imagine the medical exposition musdt get frustrating. It's probably as frustrating as the PACK OF LIES films and TV usually tell about anything computer/security related :)

cieo February 14 2006, 21:39:34 UTC

Abrams does tend to do that. I think I mentioned that above. He brings in way too many things, and to cover anything properly, he'd need to run the show for about ten more seasons.

I kind of liked the character backstories. I wanted to know more about where these people came from and about what their motivations are. Some of it was overdone, but I can't say that they were completely unnecessary.

Yes, I do agree that J.J. has a tendency to treat his audience like retarded children.

akirad February 14 2006, 22:17:38 UTC

To put it in perspective: I watch around 4 hours of TV a week. One of those hours is (was) Lost. So you can see perhaps I was exaggerating my negativity. I enjoyed it, and yet it frustrated me too :)

I don't think it would work without some of the backstories, you're right. I think they overdid a bit with them though, that's all. I admire you're even-handedness BTW - I'm all one way, and then the other with my opinions!

cieo February 14 2006, 22:46:19 UTC

4 hours? That's what I should be doing (BAD Sundance. BAD!).

I know what you mean, though. It's like The Da Vinci Code. Everyone raved about it to the point where I FINALLY read it. I still can't bring myself to support the book fully. If you haven't read it already, either don't, or wait for paperback (wait, I think other countries already carry the paperback version--nevermind).

And thank you, but this is one of my very rare moments of evenhandedness :-)
I used to think that I was a good little moderate. Then a whole bunch of folks burst my bubble and told me I was crazy hardcore about my opinions. Meh, what can you do? :-)

greybeta February 14 2006, 13:44:30 UTC

Lost? I don't watch primetime television. So this means I don't know nor care about Grey's Anatomy, House M.D., Scrubs or any other show like that.

cieo February 14 2006, 21:40:07 UTC

Welcome to Limewire.

greybeta February 14 2006, 21:41:37 UTC

That's too much effort...

cieo February 14 2006, 21:54:52 UTC

You click a button and let it run--easier than making popcorn.

akdidge February 14 2006, 16:16:26 UTC

Lost? Yeah, I am. About the series, that is. I haven't watched a single episode, not that I care to either. Suspense shows are rarely that for me. I tend to, with my analytical thinking (or blatant common sense) see through their most 'veiled' plots and say something akin to, "oh, X does Y with Z, how original." Perhaps it is because most of the American public doesn't bother to read the classics, and the directors borrow liberally from said classics. I personally love to read, and can do so quite quickly when the need arises. As such, there's not too much I haven't read about, plot wise, that'll really surprise me ( ... )

cieo February 14 2006, 21:49:05 UTC

I have a very hard time believing that Daniel Dae Kim had anything more than a passing acquaintance with the language before the show. He's probably heard Korean growing up, but his parents probably forced him to speak English at home.

I don't think you can count adrenaline on this episode. See, he throws the hook, notes that it hurt his shoulder, and then throws another one from the same side. GENIUS.