Lost in lost
Lost is back on our screens, well the laptop’s screen anyway. After nearly an hour and a half of season 6 I’m more confused than before. Now watching lost really has got to that point where I don’t really care - I just want to know what I’ve wasted my time watching is about!
*** WARNING - I might let slip a spoiler if you haven’t seen it… ***
It summary of the last season we watch the core characters end up holding a nuclear (likely I know) weapon and dropping it down a shaft that was the source of an ‘energy pocket’. Now only in lost does this make any sense and as Charlotte pointed out when we watched the last season Libby was very small and we therefore were running on minimal sleep and understanding - not the best start to ‘getting’ lost.
Anyway now we seem to have two versions of what’s happening, resurrection, death, anger, reveals, disappointment and confusion - no laughs though. I miss the comedy of Hurley which seems to be sadly lacking. Can I get excited about the next episode? Yes, but because I just want to know dammit! Why is Sayid suddenly ok and what an earth is Jacob going to do will now that he has to talk through Hurley? Who is Locke then? Who’s the new Jacob? Who are all the people? Why wasn’t the temple occupied before? Answers please!
Good Hunting
Lost
Having watched the 20th episode of the third season, I have come to the relisation that I still don’t really know anything more than about three episodes into the first.
Everything contridicts itself whilst remaining just possible and recently Charlotte and I have wondered whether some things are not meant to be taken exactly as they look, for example the ages of people in flashbacks, are they meant to look that old or was it just too difficult to make them look any younger?
Now there are a few things that I have only just remembered about that don’t really make any sense…
- Micheal Leaving…
- The shark with the Dharma markings
- The polar bear
- Why although everyone seems to heal quicker on the island, no ones hair ever grows
And I’m sure there are many more. This season seems to have meandered around without really going anywhere, I suppose we have found out a lot about the others - and a bit about thier origins (EP20). But it’s only really raised more questions, I’m sure that we’ll find out? - only 50 episodes to go.
Good Hunting
BSG (Baltars Spirit Guide…?)
The third season of BSG (Battlestar Galactica for the uninitiated) resumed at the weekend in it’s new sunday slot on SciFi and so being the idiot I am I managed to not get it until wednesday morning when I discovered the the sound was out of sync on my download. My luck was in though as Ian had it and we had a spare forty minutes so I managed to get to see the latest episode, Ian has a good post about this so I won’t reiterate what he’s said as again he’s proved that I sound like a five year old child in comparison.
* (Kind of Minor) Spoiler Warning *
I will say though that after having some time to consider what the episode means for BSG I’m,
a) Disappointed,
b) Concerned, and
c) A tiny bit turned off.
Now I’m disappointed as BSG can be great and has had some great cliffhangers over the three series, I mean what about the end to season two for starters. I was so excited about the pure number of story arcs they had leading into this one episode, but they just tied everything up. We have now have everyone back on the Galactica and the next episode can just be mid season filler really. The only thing that I really want to know about is the other Cylons, but I’m not that bothered. I’m not sure how they are going to tie them in if they are meant to be people on the Galactica as the other Cylons don’t know who they are and so where do they come from? Without a major revision of the Cylon backstory then there’s not really anyway that I can see for them to be integrated into the story, I’m sure that the writers will prove me wrong but I hope they don’t resort to some weird - only just feasible - answer. This brings me to my second point, where the series is going.
One of the main things that I love about this series is the realism that they have brought to this quite frankly unbelievable universe, short of adding super heros or the Starship enterprise it’s pure Sci Fi. But the writer, directors and actors have managed to humanise this show in a way that most others haven’t done. I really feel that we’re starting to lose that now and that we’re getting into Startrek territory. As Ian said to me yesterday, it’s a bit of a leap to say that the Super Nova must be linked to one that happened 4000 years ago and that it must be the pointer to where they are going - I may still be wrong here as this is yet to be confirmed that it is the right way. Then there’s Starbuck drawing, please don’t go down the spritual route, please, please, please! I hate it when stories do that. Now when that’s the universe that the story is set in and we know that from the start it’s fine, but don’t switch to it half way through. Just my pennys worth.
My last point is just the fallout from a & b really. There’s not much going on to keep me in apart from James Callis who is still awesome in it and I’m worried that we’re going in a direction that I’m not going to like, I suppose that time will tell. All of this said I still really like the show and I’m going to watch it until the end! Plus we already have two and a half seasons of great tv!
Good Hunting
The IT Crowd returning…?
Charlotte was given the DVD of this great little sitcom for Christmas and we’ve just finished watching it again. It’s a bit of a geeky program but Charlotte likes it too so it can’t be all about that. Some of the funny stuff isn’t even mentioned but just part of the set. The DVD itself is also really well put together with some old style game sequences and classic sounds. It might be the geek in me but this is one of my favourite shows from last year.
What is confusing though is that IMDB have it down for a second series that starts on friday. But I can’t find anything else about it other than people becoming confused about it. I can only guess that it’s not going to happen on Friday as there’s been no advertising for the show and absolutely no stuff on the Channel 4 mini site. I suppose that might mean that it’s not happening now, or that shooting has been delayed. I really do hope that there’s another series of this quirky comedy.
Good Hunting
Why a month? eh?
Now I remember why I used to like waiting until things were finished on TV before I watched them.
*BSG Spoiler Warning*
Now I have to wait a month before we find out whether Adama’s going to nuke the planet, Baltars going to see the last five cylons, whether Apollo and Starbuck are actually going to do anything, whether Tyrol will find the eye, who gets rescued, who gets killed and whether the Cylons are that bothered about the baby…
*End Spoiler*
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