Monday, April 19, 2010

Lost-tacular

I love Lost, don't get me wrong. But the series finale being a five-hour TV extravaganza? With a two-hour retrospective, the two-hour finale, and a special, Lost-centric edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live? That's a lotta Lost.

2 comments:

Rick G. said...

There are several, “worst things” about LOST and none of them involve the actual show. Except Sayid, of course.

I’ve always said the commercials kill the show, but as we near the finale, I’m afraid the hype might just do the same. Sure, one can avoid this simply by not participating. That’s easy. After all, I had no idea what a final rose ceremony was until I accidentally scanned past a finale episode of The Bachelor, but I was able to jump to the next channel in time to avoid growing ovaries. I’ve also managed to avoid Snooki, The Constipation or any of the other rust-hued inhabitants of The Jersey Shore because I blocked MTV from my channel line-up years ago when they stopped showing music videos. Evidently the “M” now stands for “moronic.”

But here’s the thing, Daneman - I’ll probably watch the LOST foreplay because it’s event television. It’s like a tailgate party before a Bills game, only for nerds who actually buy into the concept of an alternative reality – much like the alternative reality of the Bills actually winning a football game.

After all, once it’s over, it’s over. I doubt there will ever be LOST repeats on ABC. LOST will never show up on some obscure cable channel. Once they reveal this whole thing, will I really commit to a stack of shiny LOST discs for a 121-episode marathon? I doubt it. It would be like watching David Blaine taking elaborate pains to show you how he does a trick, then doing the trick.

No … I’ll never see these people again. They’ll be gone forever, so as lame as it sounds, I’m stocking up on red licorice, Cheese-Its and Snapple and I’m going to watch the whole damn thing. Five hours, you say? What’s that in LOST time?

Duchess513 said...

Laughing my fool head off at the comment about avoiding growing ovaries. Slow clap.