LOST!

[sinanju]

*ping!*

That would be the sound my suspension of disbelief snapping.

• A giant wooden sailing ship far inland on the island.  Uhm, okay.  Tsunami, yeah, that's as good an explanation as any.
  
• A giant wooden slave ship?  Dude, a wooden ship that old on a humid tropical island?  It would have been reduced to moist mounds of sawdust long ago.
• A giant wooden slave ship with crates of dynamite in the hold?  Dude!  They didn't have dynamite that long ago.
• Nobody but Redshirt Man (tm) knows that old dynamite sweats nitroglycerin?  What, they never saw Sorceror?  Or any other popular film or tv show which reported this fact to us?
• Whoa!  Redshirt Man blowed up good!  He blowed up real good!
  
• If Hurley (believes he) is a jinx, shouldn't he try to carry the dynamite?  The jinx never hurts him--just other people.  Ergo....
• Yes, why hasn't this island been discovered before?  Well, obviously, it has.  Why else the secret underground base we saw them exploring in Resident Evil?
• "The rudder is sinking!" my shiny metal ass!  It's floating just fine, guys.  Chill out.
• Fuse?  They have fuse too?  From the slave ship, I guess...
• What's the range on that radar, anyhow?
• We're 3/4s of the way thru the episode and we haven't learned a damn thing.  Par for the course, I guess, but it's getting awfully damn tiresome.
• "Take the boy.  Kill the others."  That was the dialogue I expected.  Didn't get it, but the the spirit was there.

Okay, it's over.  And I think I may well be done with this show.  I've sat patiently thru an entire season now, and they haven't answered a single goddamned question.  Oh, we've gotten backstory on all the main characters, but they've not addressed a single fucking question.  My patience meter is reading thus:

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Comments

[fallenpegasus]

Damn. I was waiting to watch it all on DVD, but if there is no resolution and no explanation, they can just all fark off.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

That would be an excellent plan (suggesting that they all fark off). I've been cruising the Television Without Pity "Lost" forum and this kind of nonsensical, string-the-viewers-along crap is par for the course for JJ Abrams (also responsible for Alias). It's like the worst of X-Files, which at least made _some_ sense early on.

[laurel]

I'd disagree about Abrams, the first two seasons of Alias made sense more often than not and seemed to have been plotted out way better than, say, The X-Files. But then I've enjoyed Abrams' work since his days on Felicity.

I do share some of your frustration re Lost, though I will keep watching next season. I'll know better how I feel once we get an actual revelation, and I'm hoping we don't have to wait too far into next season for that.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Well, maybe Alias was better than I've heard. On the other hand, I've tried to watch it a couple of times and I just couldn't get into it.

As for Lost--they had an whole season to provide even a single revelation and they didn't. I don't plan to watch next season, though I may follow recaps to find out if they do actually start answering some questions.