Sunday musings

It’s been a couple of days since I’ve posted anything, which makes me feel nervous like I was on a roll that’s slowing down and pretty soon this blog will die just like all the blogs before.

So I’m posting and post when I have nothing to write. Because that’s a good idea.

I suppose I could talk about Lost (which I started watching just a couple of weeks ago) and a few of my musing on the show thus far (I’m two-thirds through season four which has taken twice as long to get through as seasons one and two combined).

I initially started watching Lost because series six of Doctor Who had wrapped up until the fall and I had finished Battlestar Galactica (hereafter known simply as BSG). I had this grand scheme to watch ALL of classic Doctor Who all the way through (however long that may take), but I made the mistake of putting to many requirements on it. Screen caps of the exterior of every TARDIS, thoughts on every episode in a word doc to be compiled and posted in some form or another when done, that sort of thing.

Basically what I’m saying is that I’m between science fiction shows and I felt a little lonely and I had never watched Lost before, partially because I was extremely resistant to it while it was actually on TV. Not to mention my dear friend who will be known on this blog as Vorhit, recommended the show to me. And really a recommendation from a trusted source is enough for me.

So I embarked on a journey into Lost (complete with spoilerific live tweeting of my thoughts). A few of my initial tweets included:

Most of the tweets about season four were derivations on “I hate this all so much/This is so stupid/#seasonfourofLostsucks.”

In generally I guess you could say I’m still processing the show. I enjoyed seasons one through three considerably more than I have enjoyed four, but I suppose I won’t be able to fully talk about it until it’s all done (or I give up, I leaving that as an option).

Mostly it’s one of those shows where I have a conversation like this with The Kirin:

Me: So if they were clever they would use this plot twist, and it would be unexpected and cool, but because they have never been that clever they will use this plot devise/tool/twist.

Kirin: Okay.

Lost [10 minutes later uses the former of my two synopsis for itself].

Me: Oh, well. . . I wasn’t exactly expecting that.

Kirin: Except that you were because you called it ten minutes ago!

Me: Yeah. . . they’re not very clever.

Kirin: No, not really.

With Doctor Who I have the joy of just being along for the ride, and sometimes I will figure out where I am going before I get there, but not always and I enjoy every second of it (except “Black Spot” or Love and Monsters” because those sucked ass). And then with BSG parts were obvious and parts were not but that wasn’t really what the show was about, or at least that’s not what I was watching the show for.

Here there are character elements I enjoy (namely Sawyer and Hurley and. . . Sawyer and Hurley), and I can see a very strong argument for it being not unlike BSG that is isn’t really ABOUT what the island is or what it means, but the way it’s written that IS the primary element in the show, at least where I am not in season four, and I just don’t care. I find the twists annoying and predictable, and the added characters uninteresting.

That’s not to say I don’t like it, I’m just having a hard time with four. I enjoyed one to three enough (quite a lot in places) to watch four and see where it takes me.

Okay lovelies, until next time.

Cheers!