Basically, it wasn’t great, I suppose. It wasn’t really hideous, either. It could have been so much more. A lot of things were working against it, I suppose. The Writer’s strike was probably the biggest problem and that effectively killed a lot of shows early in their “prime” as it were (e.g. Prison Break, Heroes.) LOST basically got lost in the middle of its 3rd season and then got smacked with the strike which could very easily have offed it there and then with NO resolution which would have been a whole lot worse than what we ended up with. So, they had to make due and promise to wind it up with fewer episodes per season and cut out certain stories they wanted to tell (some of which may not have even needed telling.) Even in the Finale episode, it felt like there were scenes cut out and dropped from it, scenes that could have explained a few more things a long the way.

It also felt, watching them in such a brief period, that they had a lot of ways that they could take towards a final conclusion but couldn’t make up their minds as to which one to take so relied on a dart board to chose the plot points they wanted to settle on. Watching the above link brings forth a lot of things that I had forgotten were actual plot points at one time because there was so much time between watching each season. Again, the strike and the writer’s not really having anything coherent like the promised from the outset, even if they claimed they new where they were going and how they were going to get there.

It had so much potential early on and failed to live up to it. But overall, still reasonably worthwhile. Especially when compared to Prison Break, which became a chore to watch in the end and even then it was obvious the wanted to continue it, or Heroes, which was also beginning to drag and lose focus. Heroes not only suffered from the strike but also from trying to tie things into webisodes and online comics that were a chore to keep up with (which I didn’t) leaving you confused as to what was actually going on.

Now that I am caught up on all of my shows, there is little left to carry me through the summer. Guess I will have to read a book or something.

Wasn’t it a case of -

Two men enter, one fat man leaves ?

And keep in mind that a number of characters mysteriously disappeared…

The other big unanswered question is why didn’t Hurley lose any weight ?

And now I’m going to confess to why I really gave up watching “Lost”: They never answered my questions about what happens when both the contraceptives and the feminine hygiene products run out. If this had happened to real people, they would have built a woman’s lodge and the women of fertile years would all get synchronized and hang out together for one week every month, and during that same week the guys could play poker and test the product of the still they’d built.

Why Isn’t there More F**king on this Island? (A song for LOST)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIl0rYbW_hU&feature=digest

Far as I’m concerned, anyone who thinks the Star Wars prequels were crap is actually saying George didn’t tell the story like they would have done. Although, I don’t feel that Anakin had turned evil enough to slaughter the Jedi children. And he should have blamed Palpatine for Padme’s death.