Comments on: Why LOST now sucks http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/ Because all the other domain names were taken Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kjohn http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-2717 Kjohn Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:20:04 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/#comment-2717 The most annoying thing about "Lost" is that as it has gone on Matthew Fox's acting has become worse and worse. Every time he speaks now he pre-empts it with a 5 minute ritual of smug grins, rapid deep breathing, rocking his head around and sweating profusely. It seems as if he has developed asthma or something. He can't just say his lines any more. The most annoying thing about “Lost” is that as it has gone on Matthew Fox’s acting has become worse and worse. Every time he speaks now he pre-empts it with a 5 minute ritual of smug grins, rapid deep breathing, rocking his head around and sweating profusely. It seems as if he has developed asthma or something. He can’t just say his lines any more.

]]> By: Robert http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Robert Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:47:03 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/#comment-2694 Yes, they really do burn their bridges (quite literally) in Lost. I'm pretty sure, however, that the writers' do NOT know how it is going to end. The reason the story meanders so much is that they are literally making it up as they go along. Clearly though, they will need to pull some big twists out of the bag pretty soon if they aren't going to be accused of jumping the shark. When I watch it, I can't help but think of Salman Rushdie's first novel, Grimus. That also begins with the central character landing/shipwrecked on a desert Island that is somehow apart from this world in both geogrpahy and time. It also has strange hallucinogenic qualities and (recall) is in fact a netherworld for bored immortals, created by the force of their own minds as a kind of purgatory. Yes, they really do burn their bridges (quite literally) in Lost.

I’m pretty sure, however, that the writers’ do NOT know how it is going to end. The reason the story meanders so much is that they are literally making it up as they go along. Clearly though, they will need to pull some big twists out of the bag pretty soon if they aren’t going to be accused of jumping the shark.

When I watch it, I can’t help but think of Salman Rushdie’s first novel, Grimus. That also begins with the central character landing/shipwrecked on a desert Island that is somehow apart from this world in both geogrpahy and time. It also has strange hallucinogenic qualities and (recall) is in fact a netherworld for bored immortals, created by the force of their own minds as a kind of purgatory.

]]> By: Dan Sullivan http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-2674 Dan Sullivan Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:23:58 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/03/13/why-lost-now-sucks/#comment-2674 The efforts at exposition in this series have been much too laboured. And I'm not sure that any of the Others as characters have added anything. And what is with the complete lack of information sharing that it going on. While I did enjoy the fact that Locke appears not to have learned to leave a keyboard alone, could it not have occurred to him that he should tell the rest about the options that come if you win the chess game? The efforts at exposition in this series have been much too laboured. And I’m not sure that any of the Others as characters have added anything. And what is with the complete lack of information sharing that it going on. While I did enjoy the fact that Locke appears not to have learned to leave a keyboard alone, could it not have occurred to him that he should tell the rest about the options that come if you win the chess game?

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