Lost. Because You Asked.
- 02.01.2008 - 6:33 AMI’ve been getting a lot of e-mail asking for my reaction to the season premiere of Lost, about which I blogged extensively on National Review’s The Corner in years past. This is not really a CONTENTIONS topic, but because you Losties asked, here are my thoughts:
Gibberish. It was absolute and total gibberish. Once again, it simply set up a series of new unanswered peculiarities rather than doing a thing to address the 27 plotlines its writers have already laid out. In particular, the revelation that Dr. Jack’s doctor father is also an Invisible Man living in a cabin on the Lost Island — if you’ve never watched, don’t ask — relocated Lost to the land of camp. I don’t think there is now any question that the writers and producers of Lost are just making it up as they go along, that they have created mysteries without first knowing the solutions and that, when they reach a dead end, they just make up another mystery. We’ve been had.
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February 1st, 2008 at 11:36 AM
As I told my wife ” you have way too much brains to be wasting it on that stupid show”. At least she recorded yesterday
February 1st, 2008 at 11:46 AM
I cannot disagree more. They are finally answering questions and advancing the storyline. We now know that 6 got off the island and left the remaining survivors behind. Something that is now eating away at the conscious of all of them. So much so that they need to go back either to be happier or to rescue the rest or both.
I am still of the alternate-timeline theory. My theory is because in Jack’s flash-forward from last season he seems to indicate that his father is alive. Also Kate is not in jail for killing her father which could mean he is alive as well. Lots of people think she is married/living with Sawyer. I don’t. Maybe she is living with her father or taking care of him or something else.
I enjoy the questions, thats what makes it fun. Trying to figure out what is happening…
February 1st, 2008 at 2:44 PM
The only thing to have ever commended that show is the prospect of seeing Evangeline Lilly.
But even that has an asterisk, because she’s been marooned, and thus goes around looking unkempt and disheveled.
Any show that has her, and doesn’t have her in high heels, looking hot, isn’t worth the bother.
And yes, I’m a bachelor.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Er, if I may ask, where did you get the notion from the season premiere that Jacob is Jack’s father?
In one of the last episodes of season 3, when Ben takes Locke to see Jacob, you actually can see Jacob for a brief moment (you really need the DVD to be able to step through the frames to catch it) after he flings Ben against the wall. It didn’t look like Jack’s father to me at all.
Qwinn
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 PM
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