LOST thoughts (as of Season Two, Episode Eight)

[thehefner]

Look, the only way LOST could possibly live up to its hype at this point would be to produce an epic story with the literary scope of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, WATCHMEN, and Kurosawa's RAN combined, while at the same time somehow getting DC Comics to publish my Harvey Dent novel, and finally providing me with steak and a blowjob. That's what LOST would have to do to break through three-plus years of solid browncoating.*

Like many mysteries, I can't help but wonder if all the smoke and mirrors and twists and questions aren't just enthralling, brain-numbing distractions from what might really be hollow and dumb. Maybe I'm just a bitter old X-FILES fan, but I've been burned before, and won't be able to make a judgment call anytime soon. Probably not until the show's finally finished. For now, what I do know is that I currently don't care about half the characters, and I outright dislike a quarter of the rest.

Yet I'm still engaged like heck. Mom and I have been up till 5am every night blazing through the DVDs over the past week. It reminds me of HEROES,** only with an actual sense of humor and irony, which very much helps take the piss out of even the most over-the-top dramatic stuff.***

So yeah, I'm enjoying LOST quite a bit. Still, I demand steak and a blowjob, stat.



*Sorry, Sabine, there comes a time when simply no other word will do.

**And just as I finally catch up with one fan-jizz-spraying show, another one emerges! I can never win. And there's no way in hell I'm gonna slog through HEROES Season Two; on all accounts, it didn't even have that "enjoyably awful" style of the first, and fuck it, I've got LOST, THE WIRE, THE SHIELD, DEXTER, and BATTLESTAR GALACTACA to watch.

***I kind of love the "big dramatic twist" music they play a couple times in every episode of LOST. You know the kind, the one that comes right before the commercial break after some big twist: "wwwwwrrrrrRRROOOOOWWWWWWW!!!"

Comments

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Season 2 of Heroes was pretty good.

And the fact it doesnt have irony is what works about it.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

If likeminded critics call Season Two "middling-to-painfully bad" and even the show's own creator apologized for sucking so bad, I get the feeling I'm not gonna be interested.

The lack of irony gave the show a "so-bad-it's-good" classic B-movie charm for the first season. If the quality has gone down beyond *that*, fuck, dude, what's the point?

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Critics suck balls.

The first "Highlander" movie got almost all totally shitty reviews, and that shit was awesome.

Conversely, critics fawned all over "There Will Be Blood", and "no Country For Old Men", which were boring as shit.

Season 2 didnt suck, it just wasnt quite as good as season 1.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Wow, dude, you and I have polar opposite tastes. HIGHLANDER was boring ass bullshit with a great soundtrack, while THERE WILL BE BLOOD and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN were two of the best movies of the past ten years, maybe more.