Lost, I hate you because i used to love you but then you fucked it up!
I got into lost when my sister Cathy got the Season one box set for Christmas 2005, It was amazing! My average day would be: I would wake up around 2pm eat leftovers of whatever big dinner we had the night before, watch tv, have a big dinner, have a beer or two with some crimbo tv and then to bed at 1am to watch lost till about 6am. They were good times.
I'd say i went through the box set in about a week. I then graduated to junkie by scouring the internet for Season 2 on the internet the day after it was aired in the US. I was watching a quality of video closer to a dodgy dubbed kung fu flick on an original 1989 Game Boy, but dammit it'd have to do! I'm embarrassed looking back on it now.
One time it got so bad that my brother and i ended up after a post night out chipper talking his mate diggers through the ENTIRE first season so he could come back to our house and watch the terrible quality episodes for himself and be up to speed. We may have also have had to download the 40 minute episodes first... on a 56k modem.
When Season 2 reached its finale i'm proud to say that i watched it on an actual tv with perfect sound, but by then the anger had already started to set in and i was through with Lost. The formula of the show was by now was:
- Minutes 1-5: One question of the TEN asked in the last 3 weeks answered vaguely.
- Minutes 5-35: Nothing Happens!!!!
- Minutes 35-40: Three Questions Asked.
It was ridiculously frustrating, i had always wondered how the show could have such amazing ideas but still keep the views guessing and watching each week. I now know. They dont reveal anything EVER!
My patience finally blew after the creepy revelation that some chick (Libby, IMDB reminds me) that Hurley had been dating was actually in the same mental institution as Hurley was when he had been incarcerated. I loved the story, how were they to follow it up? Answer: By Killing Libby and never telling us. JJ Abrams you are a prick!
I'll never love another TV show in the same way again. I've boycotted Prison Break after Season One and been afraid to watch Heroes too as i know they too will be dragged out to a ridiculous length of time. When will American TV learn that a well respected show that bows out on top rather that a cash cow milked out every last penny to the point it is unrecognisable to what it was loved for is what TV viewers want?
Whilst my story is old news, My cousin Niamh, who is staying up with my family for the week, watched the first episode of series four on Monday and said she is beginning to feel the same way about the show. How long can this go on for? I've heard there are another 2 series at least in the pipeline, is the plan to give an answer so late after the original alluding to of one, that people will have forgotten what they were waiting to have answered in the first place?
Why the fuck was there a polar bear on a tropical island!!!???
Does anyone even care anymore?
/rant.
