I recently watched all 4 seasons of LOST in a dedicated marathon, based on the TV Addicts comments and recommendations. First of all, I am indeed disappointed with the TV Addict’s infatuation with what I would essentially term a crap show. This self-indulgent, manipulative piece of programming crap has gone on for far too long. In a lot of ways, I can draw parallels between the cast/storyline of LOST and the fans/viewers. What’s presented is an oblivious group of individuals that are essentially “doing the motions” on an island. They are confused and disoriented and they suspend their belief in all things logical, seeking a deep-rooted explanation as to why they are “there”, why they are lost and why they are positioned in this inexplicable scenario. I view avid viewers of LOST similarly. I am afraid to tell them right now that they are “doing the motions” and are awaiting this grand revelation, this euphoric explanation as to why they have spent several hours (years even) viewing this elaborately and intricately crafted tale; sadly, this revelation will never come.
For brief moments, LOST was clever, well-crafted and retrospective/introspective. However, it was soon obvious that the writers had burrowed into a “rabbit hole” that they have no sensible way to lead the viewer out of. Alice has not only wandered off into this deep crevice, but she has run into a band of singing Dutch maids and after a wild and crazy evening has decided to join a softball team and take up a knitting and Capoeira classes while she was at it. You get my point? Maybe not, but that, in fact, is exactly it. The ridiculous tangential lines in LOST are the most unfortunate. The very instant that the viewer was encouraged to suspend logic and settle in this faux-mystical realm was the exact point when I started to “speed-watch” the series. No longer did one have to understand the characters by figuring out their past stories, figuring out why they’d respond to certain scenarios in a certain way. At some point, it “never really mattered” anymore. So, I watched, and watched, and watched, waiting for the series to allude to some minute distant ray of light, to suggest that all my viewing hours had not been in vain, but at this point, Alice had quit law school and become a professional archer.
With tonight serving as the first of far too many Thursday nights sans LOST, the fine folks at Outcast Communications were kind enough to send this TV Addict a copy of the LOST: VIA DOMUS videogame. No doubt with the hopes that I’ll be able to continue the adventure all summer long. So check back next Thursday to discover if the new survival/adventure videogame based on the hit TV show translates well on your favorite videogame console [which in my case, is a PS3].
At the very least, It’s pretty nice to know that you can’t end a videogame on an ambiguous cliffhanger, or can you? Stay tuned…
Turns out actor Harold Perinneau saved the biggest bomb for last.
In this week’s TVGuide (hitting newsstands Thursday June 5th), Perinneau insinuates that race might have been a factor in his character getting killed off the show. Telling TVGuide,
“Listen, if I’m being really candid, there are all these questions about how they respond to black people on the show. Sayid gets to meet Nadia again, and Desmond and Penny hook up again, but a little black boy and his father hooking up, that wasn’t interesting?” Adding, “Instead, Walt just winds up being another fatherless child. It plays into a really big, weird stereotype and, being a black person myself, that wasn’t so interesting.”
Now far be it from this TV Addict to take an actor to task for being so candid and refreshingly honest [believe me, a rarity in the sound-bite era we live in]. But boy is Mr. Perinneau barking up the wrong tree.
Thank you, LOST, for showing every other show on television how to do a cliffhanger. Because frankly, until last night, I was worried that America would have nothing to talk about all summer. Heaven knows pretty much every other show I watch had less-than-buzzworthy endings.
Am I really supposed to get excited about the fact that five years down the road, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ Susan is making out with the guy from QUEER AS FOLK? (Way to waste a gimmick that was already done better by LOST.) Or that GOSSIP GIRL’s Chuck went back to his wicked ways after having spent about four minutes devoted to Blair? And don’t get me started on the non-cliffhanger that was Meredith and Derek’s reunion on GREY’S ANATOMY.
Even SUPERNATURAL – aka the show y’all changed my mind about – didn’t have the kick-ass finale I was hoping for. Yes, it was good, but… well, it ain’t like we don’t know that Sam is gonna rescue Dean from hell!
And one of the only other cliffhangers worth talking about – “Who was on the other end of the phone that ONE TREE HILL’s Lucas dialed? – was a let down thanks to the fact we’d already seen the big moment play out (endlessly) in promos!
9:02PM: An obituary for Jeremy Bentham? Or is it Jeremy Benson?
9:04PM: Kate tells Jack she “spent the last three years trying to forget all the horrible things that happened on the day we left.” Ohhh, this is going to be so good.
9:05PM: Hey “Credits”… way to ruin the surprise by flashing Alan Dale and Malcolm David Kelly’s names.
9:08PM: Finally someone’s asking Ben straight up, “Why are you so important!?” Too bad Ben as per usual answers a question with a question, “Did Charles Widmore ask you to kill my daughter?”
9:14PM: Was that not the best fight scene since ALIAS’ Sydney vs. Evil Francie?
With T-Minus 3 hours until tonight’s two hour LOST season finale, this TV Addict thought he’d give all you LOSTaholics an opportunity to prove how smart you are by answering the following questions three.
1) What’s your guess for what will undoubtedly be a game-changing shocking final scene?
2) Which characters will join Boone, Shannon, Eko, Rousseau, Alex et al in that big island in the sky?
3) And most importantly, what should this TV Addict be ordering in for dinner so that I have enough energy to LIVE BLOG the entire two hour finale?
Note: If you happen to be a spoiler addict and know the answers to questions 1 or 2, please refrain from posting!
Good News:Garbage’s Shirley Manson will be joining the cast of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES for its second season as Catherine Weaver, the CEO of a cutting-edge high-tech company. Bad News: We’d probably be a lot more excited if we were at all familiar with what/who Garbage is!? [Source]*
Good News: It’s T-Minus 8 hours and 48 minutes to the spectacular season finale of LOST. Bad News: It will soon be T-Minus 289 days 8 hours and 35 minutes until LOST returns for a fifth season.
Good News: TVGuide’s Michael Ausiello just snagged a phenomenal new gig at the TV Addict’s bible, Entertainment Weekly. Bad News: No really, the TV Addict hasn’t been anxiously waiting by his phone for 8 hours 14 hours to hear from TVGuide! Really… [Source]
* Thanks to theTVaddict.com Reader Jim Morrison for the Tip!
Remember LOST? That slightly addictive show that chronicles the adventures of some really unlucky castaways. Well it turns out, the adventure isn’t over and Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Co. were simply taking a week off so that the pretty doctor’s at Seattle Grace could sort out their, well sordid love lives.
And in celebration of tonight’s two-hour finale, one that Daniel Dae Kim promises will, “introduce new variables that would never even be considered previously,” this TV Addict will be LIVE BLOGGING the entire two hours. So why not drop by theTVaddict.com at 9PM tonight so that we can all drop our jaws together. [And note, that was not supposed to sound nearly as dirty as it does!]
When LOST rocks, it rocks. And last night… yup, the ship was definitely swayin’. Best moment of the episode? Sun earning her “pimp” card by telling her dastardly dad that she’d bought his company out from under him. In other news, the show did something I love and that too few programs have the ability to do these days: take a single basic storyline and divide it into several segments involving numerous characters and then build each individual plot to a cliffhanger. Will the boat explode? Will Ben sacrifice himself in order to help Locke become a hero? When the heck did Kate become such a great tracker? (Um, okay, let’s forget that last question… although it’s a valid one.)
Listen up, ’cause I’m only going to say this once: Thanks, you rapid worshippers of the Winchester boys, for using your powers for good by rallying to humble me into giving SUPERNATURAL a second look. If you hadn’t, I’d have missed a heck of a season, not to mention last night’s literally kick-ass finale. From the fantastic use of music (particularly Kansas’ “Carry On My Wayward Son”) to the fast-and-furious one-liners (my personal favorite? Dean referring to Ruby as “our slutty little Yoda”), this was a roller coaster of a ride made all the more emotional by the fact that you people got me to care about the Winchesters almost as much as they care for one another. Yes, the “Lillith in the suburbs” scenario was a little too reminiscent of one of my all-time favorite TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, but homages are one of the things this show does best. In fact, that final scene — with evil forces having gotten their “hooks” into Dean — reminded me of something right out of one of fav fright flicks, HELLRAISER. Yup, you fans totally reeled me into this show… heck, I’ve even kinda sorta maybe gotten used to that put-on voice Jensen uses.
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