Lost time
A miniature play:
Asa: How was the Lost season finale?
Alan: Really good.
Asa: So what's the big secret?
Alan: *shrugs shoulders*
Asa: I KNEW IT!
Oh man, all you folks who kept saying they'd solve it (whatever it is these days) in the season finale are chewing on bitter ash right now. That storytelling is so decompressed it doesn't even have arcs, or ends. Or maybe each season is an act in the larger story. Just 2 more years to go! Unless it's Shakespearian structure, in which case 4 more years.
Asa: How was the Lost season finale?
Alan: Really good.
Asa: So what's the big secret?
Alan: *shrugs shoulders*
Asa: I KNEW IT!
Oh man, all you folks who kept saying they'd solve it (whatever it is these days) in the season finale are chewing on bitter ash right now. That storytelling is so decompressed it doesn't even have arcs, or ends. Or maybe each season is an act in the larger story. Just 2 more years to go! Unless it's Shakespearian structure, in which case 4 more years.
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I'm glad I spent my 8PM - 10PM block in Ralphs and hunched over my computer writing about cholesterol. And really, America. You're all such saps for buying into this business that Lost's "secrets" will be revealed. Or that they're actually planned out. This show had "Twin Peaks Flameout" written all over from Day One.
Give me the ultra-compressed Galatica, where people die, ships blow up, and characters make insane - but wonderfully justified - decisions every goddman episode.
I eat my shame, okay? I EAT MY SHAME.
Though I still like it. Too much fun.
Here's the thing, people are all fools if they believed every single mystery would be solved in season one. And the people pointing at those people are quite as foolish, but lack a certain degree of cred as most don't watch it anymore.
Was I surprised at the dearth of answers? Nope.
Entertained? Hell yes. It's strong. I'm totally there for season two when Jack and Locke debate for 24 episodes whether they should venture down the hatch now that it's open while the "Others" hold Walt captive.
edit: NOT as foolish, but lack...
Well, I'd said to Asa "Hey, it's an Abrams show, and Abrams totally loves to reboot and change premise and reveal secrets, so there's no reason that LOST won't come to some grand conclusion."
And I WAS WRONG. Thus proving the divide between Alias and Lost is large.
Yeah, I think Alan can count himself as the only person who didn't tell me "oh, but they'll totally reveal stuff in the season finale" when I stopped watching. And it isn't so much that they didn't reveal all the secrets... they didn't reveal ANYTHING.
Oh boo.
Alan's capacity for having his cock teased is obviously much higher than mine. Watch out ladies!
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