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Lost: Jumping the Shark
Sunday 11.05.2006
alice ttlg || 06:56 PM
I started watching the 10/25/06 ep and found myself not really interested in any of these people anymore. Sawyer was in prison??? eh, not interested enough to care about this turn in his backstory. ohhh, look, let's kill bunnies and torture Sawyer some more. The whole make'em break rocks and blow up Sawyer's heart, this is just getting ridiculous. Is Abrams lonely for Alias where he could - completely within the story line - torture Sidney or her compatriots on a regular basis? And again of course, no real info about the island or real backstory on anyone since the first ep this season. Most of the backstories are wandering off into smaller tangents, just not that interesting.
I want answers. Soon. Or I'm outta here. Besides, I just finished watching two eps of Prison Break, really didn't need to see some boring attempt at cloning it on Lost...
Lost: 3rd Season Premiere, 10/4/06
Wednesday 10.11.2006
alice ttlg || 10:37 AM
I got all excited after the first five minutes of Lost, thinking, wow, finally some information! Something new about who, what, where, how on this island! Then I realized that's probably the last bit of new info we'll get all season. And then I realized that five minutes should have been at the end of the season finale last May! So we could savor it and relish it and want more but still enjoy having that tiny bit of knowledge about the island.
See, when Abrams did Alias, I loved how he did it, all season long, the questions would build up and up and we get all excited and drawn in, trying to find answers along with Sydney. Then in May, the finale would come along and answer most of the questions - but it also planted new questions, the hook to draw us back for the next season. But in the meantime, we got answers and I really enjoyed having those answers, not being left totally in the dark all summer. That's it should work, build it up all season, then give us the ending, along with more or new stuff so we do come back but we're not just left totally on hold all summer.
But with Lost, Abrams isn't doing that, I feel like we've been left with no answers each May, just more questions. And I'm getting tired of it. I need a payoff, something for all my time all season paying attention, a reward. That first five minutes could have been a perfect last five minutes, just the right amount of info, but also giving us new questions to ponder all summer. Damn shame he didn't do that. And now I'm rather discouraged, realizing that small piece of info is likely most of what we'll get this season. I look back on what we've learned in two seasons and it's a paltrey amount. I feel like I've been give that fish thing and the dry cat food instead of a meal.
2005-2006 Season, Criminal Minds, E-Ring, Freddie, Head Case, Invasion, Lost, Related, Veronica Mars: Wednesday
Wednesday 08.10.2005
MattM || 12:51 PM
It is has been amazing how Desperate Housewives and Lost has shaped this fall's schedule. All networks are running scared from these two shows and when they aren't running they are trying to copy the success. Sci-Fi/Horror genre shows were all but extinct and dead when Lost broke out last year. Now there is a total of six shows on this years slate and only two of those are returning. I am a huge fan of Lost and it was the best show on TV last year. That being said I have a bad feeling that it is headed for a ratings slump and maybe a creative slump too. J.J. Abrams has his plate so full he has allowed Alias to slip into oblivion and I am worried with him working on MI-3 he might let this show slide too. Still you can't wait to find out just what is down that tunnel.
The only network not running scared is the one that should be. UPN took its best show in Veronica Mars and put it in a suicedial time slot against Lost. I understand the thinking was to pair with it's highest rated show (America's Top Eating Disorders er Models) but this is just not going to work and I am afraid they are going to cancel Veronica sometime before the Feburary sweeps. That depresses me deeply because this show is truely an elite show and has the buildings to really break out during it's second season. Still if it fails I can't blame UPN even with the poor slotting, the blame falls on you viewers who have not watched this top notch show. UPN went out of its way to promote even going as far as putting four of the episodes on CBS. CB FREAKING S. If we don't watch this show then we are all to blame. So everyone stop watching Bobby Brown and the other reality crap that is on and TUNE INTO THIS SHOW. Yes you missed last year but they wrapped that up and we are starting from relatively new. So please do not let UPN cancel this show WATCH IT.
The new shows are a real wide varying range of the good, the bad and the ugly. One of my two most anticapated new shows is Shawn "I'm David's Little Brother" Cassidy's Invasion. He gave us a great show in American Gothic and a vastly underrated one in Agency. This one looks to be very good and I can't wait to see how it unfolds even if the plot sounds a bit out there. Alien's landing in Florida...hmmm that would explain alot about that state. Also I am looking forward much to my surprise to E-Ring. It has a steller cast in Dennis Hopkins and Benjamin Bratt amoung others and it looks very promising. Still I have to wonder why wouldn't they want to pair this with West Wing? No wait I better say that because they will wind up doing a very special cross over episode. By the way where is Aaron Sorkin and can someone give him a show PLEASE. The bad starts off with Criminal Minds. It is nice to see Thomas Gibson get another show and one that he can play but I just get the feeling that it is going to be a boring procedural drama. Head Cases starting Chris "Can I go back in time and turn down Batman and Robin?" O'Donell might just might actually be good but I just have a hard time believing it even it is good you know FOX they will yank it after 2 episodes. Related I thought might be a good one then they fired the seemly perfectly cast Laura San Giacomo so I just don't know about this one but it could be good they do have a pug in it after all. Then of course there is the ugly. In most sit-com trailers you can usually find one joke that works. A 30 minute pilot and all you have to do is find 30 seconds of funny. A pretty easy task. I watched three 1 minute clips of Freddie and the only thing that I did was fall asleep. It wasn't funny. It wasn't orginal. It was so bland not even his spouse could save this clunker. Mr. Sarah Michelle Geller needs to go back to doing.....oh thats right he didn't have a career. Well I guess since he didn't have anything better to do but still yikes....he has no comedic talent or timing and zero chemistry with that cast...speaking of....BRIAN GREENE????? Geez Fred why not call up the mystery machine gang and shannon dohtery while your at it.
Lost: The Big 5 - #3
Monday 11.22.2004
MattM || 07:02 AM
The only reason I am not putting this at number 1 is that it is still too early to call it the best show on TV. Still so much time for some network exec to get loose and ruin it ala Boomtown. Still so much time for Abrams to work in his favorite actress Kerry Russell and debate the eternal question of hair...long or short? Though I doubt either will happen....but you just never know. In a season full of superior shows this one stands out above all others. In typical Abrams fashion he starts us with question and then answers them only to leave us with even more questions. What happen to Alex? What was Kate's crime? What exactly did Jack do to his father? Was that a prison tattoo on his arm? Yet even when we get answers which we always do from Abrams it leads us to even more and more questions. This show however is probably a more proving ground for his talent then even Alias because with Alias it by its nature is very inclusive and a relatively small world. Lost by its nature is very open with wide assortment of characters and relatively large world. The irony is that Alias has the whole world and Lost has one island. Still it takes great skill to juggle this many characters at once and Abrams does it effortlessly. He's even managed to keep the wardrobe changes small to keep it more accurate. The best thing of all about this show is that unlike Alias which so few have figured out this show has been a runaway smash in the ratings. So at least I don't have to worry about wheather or not it will be renewed. I think alot of people tuned expecting to see Survivor the TV series only to get something about a million times better. Matthew Fox is probably my front runner for best new show lead but that is no surprise to me after his superior turn on Haunted and Party of Five. The real surprise the enmass of new comers led by Naveen Andrews as Sayid. Also nice to see Tess from Roswell again even if she does look like she swallowed a beach ball. Hmmm....wait thats it she is carrying Max's love child!!! I hate to keep repeating myself but as I have said for Jack and Bobby, Desparate Housewives, and Life as We Know it....YOU MUST WATCH THIS SHOW. It is just simply outstanding.
Lost: Walkabout, 10/13/04
Friday 10.15.2004
alice ttlg || 02:44 PM
Wow. Okay, J. J. Abrams now officially joins Joss Whedon as gods of TV. This is a truly amazing show, definitely one of the best, and this episode, I just sat there stunned at the end, thinking back over the whole episode. Just amazing. Great cast, great characters, heckuva plot line, I love the mystery of it. It reminds me of the Rimbaldi mytharc in Alias and also of Buffy and Angel, the mysticality of it.
WATCH THIS SHOW. And if you've missed the first few eps, watch in December for reruns too. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS SHOW.
Lost: Pilot, 9/22/04
Saturday 09.25.2004
alice ttlg || 01:31 AM
Another surprise! I had pegged this for bad but the pilot was pretty good, definitely interesting. They're going for some sort of Twin Peaks/Twilight Zone thing, it's not an ordinary castaway thing. I'm not crazy about Matthew Fox but he did a good job in the pilot of something than the oldest sibling from Party of Five, Evangaline Lilly was good as the ingenue maiden in distress and the rest of the cast put in good performances. The special effects of the initial explosions were not that great but a very small part of the episode so it was easily overlooked. I'll be watching, although I'm worried that Alias will suffer from J. J. Abrams' involvement in this show, directing Mission Impossible III and now a possible Felicity-type series, he's got a very full plate.
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