Thursday, April 07, 2005
LoST
Thank god, Lost is back on tele (Channel 7, 8.40pm, just 10 minutes away).

I was beginning to think that I had wasted 7 hours of my life sitting through the first 7 episodes (and the accompanying 20 minutes of ads per hour), only to see the series dropped (ratings?). Phew, they were just breaking for Easter.

When people told me ‘24’ was great, I believed them, but would never have committed myself to watching 24 episodes of anything, especially one where – I guess – unlike a soap you would have to watch every minutes, lest you get to the end of the series thinking…. so who was the guy with the funny hair and why was he trying to kill the woman with the dodgy shoes…..

When Lost started, hot on the heels of a couple of a bunch of ‘three-parters’, I assumed it was one of the same. I could sit, watch and walk away in a few weeks.

After 4 weeks, and still nothing happening, I caved and checked out the website only to be confronted with ‘In episode 23, Jack finally comes to terms with……’ Shit. 24 bloody episodes. Now I have to watch them all.

(Well alright, no I don’t.)

It is a silly and ultimately frustrating program with pointless black and white decisions wrapped around a fuzzy ‘lets start a new leaf’ theme, where each character with a flawed past is revealed and the slate wiped clean after crash landing on a desert island.

The survivors are obsessed with secrets. I mean, if I had had lived through an aeroplane crash and shot a polar bear in the jungle, I would be running up and down the beach screaming about it. If I had witnessed a dinosaur (we guess) tear the pilot out of the cockpit and eat him alive, again, I wouldn’t be keeping it to myself.

Ho hum, I wonder who’s live story is it on these evening’s episode. That’s if I can actually see it of course. The aerial is now so bad, it is like watching Ski Sunday in a blizzard.

DIY Saturday then, I guess.

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