Lost 2 is starting to grate on my nerves, and this is why. If you don't watch Lost, you should ignore the following list:
1. The character group is evidently comprised mostly of self-righteous prats. Jack is the worst; anything he disagrees with he sneers at and refuses to acknowledge. He also has an infuriating habit of asking questions, and then immediately dismissing the answers as crazy. I want to grab him by his grubby shirt front and yell "You asked, dammit, why are you arguing with the answer??" Charlie is also pretty bad. When he stops drooling over the Aussie, he wanders around the island in a perpetually angry state demanding things of whomever he sees. I'd like to punch him in the hobbit balls.
2. Most of the men, if they can't get what they want immediately, throw a temper tantrum like a 12-year-old. Everyone seems to think they're owed something by everyone else. As a means of adding tension to an extremely slow-moving script, it's getting tedious. Nothing much is happening from week to week; adults arguing like children doesn't change that.
3. The women are attractive to the point of statistical improbability. Well, that's probably a plus.
4. New characters have come to light four episodes into Season 2. Apparently they've been camping out on the other side of the island. Now this is probably just me, but how the hell can you live on an island for 44 days and not go looking around? How are they even sure it's an island? For all they know it's a peninsula and they could walk home.
5. Michelle Rodriguez is completely one-dimensional. Adding her to the cast is almost as bad as being vorced to watch Shakespeare performed by a cardboard cutout of the Taco Bell chihuahua.
6. People, people. It's a fucking computer. You managed to repair it pretty sharply after someone accidentally shot it at close range with a projectile weapon. Can you not program it to run the damn sequence every 108 minutes?? Maybe hunger makes you stupid. Maybe the writers didn't get enough bagels.
I don't know if I can keep this up for another three seasons just to get some answers. Attention... span... failing...
Comments
Agreed on all of it. Especially #5. Her acting, if you can call it that, sucks.
What I have found helps with this series is not watching it for a month or so, then watching all the new episodes at once. Having it dragged out, a tiny bit per week, really is painfull...
Posted by: Gord at October 19, 2005 12:21 AM
You must, if only for a moment, see past your own sense of self indignation and admit to yourself that Lost is, in point of fact, a television program; consequently, it may suffer, from time-to-time, from the same sort of 'one dimensional' predictability that you so swiftly dismiss. The attention span of the average person will not accept a lack of 'beauty' on the television as they decompress in their ‘faux’ leather sofas they so innocently purchased from IKEA under the assumption of a unique, albeit economical, modern living solution. And as far as the lack of exploration goes, I think its safe to say that you too would not venture far in a Polar Baer inhabited forest marked by ethereal visits from the dead and foggy T-Rex like beasts who pop trees from their roots like a seed jammed deep into a recently abscessed bicuspid. Who would want to be that far away from Kate anyway?
Posted by: Dave at October 19, 2005 01:17 PM
All rights reserved. Watch yourself.
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