I'm not bitter...okay, I _am_ bitter
May. 30th, 2005 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanju<Dennis Miller voice>
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but...
</Dennis Miller voice>
I just got back from the supermarket, where I bought a couple of things for dinner tonight. While standing in the checkout line, I saw a TV Guide with a cover story about LOST. Stifling my first impulse (which was to shriek, "You rat bastards! Die!") lest I alarm the other customers and employees, I picked it up. I opened it to the story and skimmed over it.
Typical fluff job, no surprise. But there was a little sidebar revealing some of The Secrets of LOST!
First secret: filming on the raft was a pain in the ass (though not phrased quite that way). You know, I don't really care. It's not like they're getting minimum wage for this stuff. They're being paid damn well. They can endure a little discomfort.
Next secret: There is a master plan. "If you don't have a plan, you're headed for Doomsville," according to the big cheese(s). Yeah, right. I flat out don't believe them. They claim that new writers get taken into a room and told all the big secrets (what monsterzilla really is, what's inside the hatch, etc) so they know the score (and have to keep it all in their heads because they don't want to write any of it down, lest it get out). Did I mention that I don't believe them for a single New York second? This is PR fluff, pure and simple.
Last Secret (there was at least one more, I think, but I didn't look at it--hey, I said I skimmed this thing): Dynamite Guy, aka the Redshirt, will be back next season, his explosive demise in the presence of four--count 'em, four!--witnesses notwithstanding. This does not motivate me to want to keep watching.
Don't get me wrong. I liked Dynamite Guy. He said a few things that definitely needed saying, that reflected the opinions of some of us in the audience (and how odd that Audience Spokesman Guy is summarily blown up....). But he exploded in the presence of four witnesses. There was nothing left of him. How the hell is he going to come back? He can't even have flashbacks because his memory is scattered all over a jungle clearing...and Jack, Kate, Locke and Hurley. As are his eyes. He can't stare pensively into the distance as we cut to a flashback....
Oh, and they claimed in this article that we finally started getting some revelations in the finale. What revelations? Why, that the Black Rock is a SHIP, see. Like anybody gave a damn about that. We only heard about the "black rock" in the previous episode and we already knew that Delenn wasn't playing with a full deck, so her failure to tell anyone that the "black rock" she was talking about was really a ship was both unsurprising and MEANINGLESS since it made no difference to the story. None.
Another revelation? Sure. How about Delenn is nuts! Wow. There's a surprising twist we never saw coming. We already knew that, you morons.
Geez. The more I think about this show (and read about it), the less I want to watch it.
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but...
</Dennis Miller voice>
I just got back from the supermarket, where I bought a couple of things for dinner tonight. While standing in the checkout line, I saw a TV Guide with a cover story about LOST. Stifling my first impulse (which was to shriek, "You rat bastards! Die!") lest I alarm the other customers and employees, I picked it up. I opened it to the story and skimmed over it.
Typical fluff job, no surprise. But there was a little sidebar revealing some of The Secrets of LOST!
First secret: filming on the raft was a pain in the ass (though not phrased quite that way). You know, I don't really care. It's not like they're getting minimum wage for this stuff. They're being paid damn well. They can endure a little discomfort.
Next secret: There is a master plan. "If you don't have a plan, you're headed for Doomsville," according to the big cheese(s). Yeah, right. I flat out don't believe them. They claim that new writers get taken into a room and told all the big secrets (what monsterzilla really is, what's inside the hatch, etc) so they know the score (and have to keep it all in their heads because they don't want to write any of it down, lest it get out). Did I mention that I don't believe them for a single New York second? This is PR fluff, pure and simple.
Last Secret (there was at least one more, I think, but I didn't look at it--hey, I said I skimmed this thing): Dynamite Guy, aka the Redshirt, will be back next season, his explosive demise in the presence of four--count 'em, four!--witnesses notwithstanding. This does not motivate me to want to keep watching.
Don't get me wrong. I liked Dynamite Guy. He said a few things that definitely needed saying, that reflected the opinions of some of us in the audience (and how odd that Audience Spokesman Guy is summarily blown up....). But he exploded in the presence of four witnesses. There was nothing left of him. How the hell is he going to come back? He can't even have flashbacks because his memory is scattered all over a jungle clearing...and Jack, Kate, Locke and Hurley. As are his eyes. He can't stare pensively into the distance as we cut to a flashback....
Oh, and they claimed in this article that we finally started getting some revelations in the finale. What revelations? Why, that the Black Rock is a SHIP, see. Like anybody gave a damn about that. We only heard about the "black rock" in the previous episode and we already knew that Delenn wasn't playing with a full deck, so her failure to tell anyone that the "black rock" she was talking about was really a ship was both unsurprising and MEANINGLESS since it made no difference to the story. None.
Another revelation? Sure. How about Delenn is nuts! Wow. There's a surprising twist we never saw coming. We already knew that, you morons.
Geez. The more I think about this show (and read about it), the less I want to watch it.
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Delenn?
Date: 2005-05-31 11:59 am (UTC)Someone blowing up in front of 4 witnesses doesn't mean they're dead if the entire setup is a dream, a VR, etc., or if the guy himself is a teleporter, a regenerator, etc.
Re: Delenn?
Date: 2005-06-01 12:26 am (UTC)As for Dynamite Guy, yeah, I can think of lots of ways I could bring him back in genre fiction. The thing is, I don't know how the LOST producers could bring him back without choosing one of the following:
a) Committing themselves to a single explanation, whatever it turns out to be*. But given their performance to date, that's never gonna happen.
b) Bring him back and add that mystery to all the other mysteries they haven't bothered to resolve. For extra bonus points, they could have his resurrection go completely unremarked, except perhaps for a joke late in the season.
The latter would be my guess.