On Mar 30, 11:41=A0pm, Ronnie Bateman
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> wrote:
> WQ <w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > --- Uh, the show was on for 3 1/2 years before the strike and it was
> > already wandering all over the place in just the first season. =A0The
> > fact that it's still doing it a couple of years later only goes to
> > show how lost the show really is.
>
> Why do you pretend to know such things about a show which you haven't
> seen since the first episode?
>
> Actually, I think it's much improved over some past lulls, such as the
> excruciating Era of the Fish Biscuit.
--- The Era of the Fish Biscuit? Now I'm absolutely convinced that
the show is making everything up as it goes along.
You know, when you've seen as much TV as I have, and factor in movies
as well, then if you're at all conscious during the process, you find
yourself building a databank in your mind of all the stuff that works
and the stuff that doesn't. The databank includes everything from the
way shows/movies are shot, the caliber of the acting and script, the
music used, and just the overall tone and effect achieved, among other
more subtler aspects. With each new show or movie that comes along,
you dig into that databank with which to make comparisons to help you
determine whether that new show or movie is actually breaking any new
ground or if it's merely following scriptwriting 101 rules, or worse,
if it's just being pretentious in either situation.
Lost breaks no new ground [its overall soapy execution alone negates
whatever newness it might've had to convey]; its scriptwriting style
has to be classified as bargain basement TV 101 [the dialogue
particularly is too pedestrian, which is further hampered by the soapy
shenanigans of the show]; and it's just generally pretentious stuff as
it does its darnedest at being some kind of 'profound' mystery that
everyone needs to stay glued to in order to learn The Big Reveal after
6 years on the air. If it takes that long for a Big Reveal to happen,
then it's virtually guaranteed that it'll be a Big Cheat, that the
whole thing will have been little more than what it is, a soap and a
sham. I mean, what you're getting now out of this show is probably
more red herrings than actual information as to what it's all about
because it's impossible for every single thing that's happened to date
to be relevant to The Big Reveal. Seriously, how much of the fat
guy's off-island life do you really need to know that would make The
Big Reveal more profound or satisfying to you? And then apply that to
every other character. It's just all too unnecessarily bloated.
But I'll tell you this: when the finale does come, I will watch it,
and if it proves me totally wrong by blowing me completely away with
something that I could never have expected and which literally makes
my jaw drop [and it can't have any less of an impact than that after 6
years], I'll be the first to admit I was wrong about the show. But
comparing Lost to a show like The Prisoner, I'm pretty confident I'm
right about Lost being little more than a soap and a sham and a simple
utter waste of time.
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