That lighthouse set is the fakest ever. It was supremely unconvincing. Almost as bad as whatever they have done to Clare in the hair and make-up chair. Or, at least, it appeared that way on non high def pirate bay torrent. (Big love going out to twentyforty. Keeping it real for the non-US region geeks and nerds.)
Can't sleep, so I might watch some season one! I wonder if it is possible to recapture the awe of not knowing what is going on. I mean, we still don't know what is going on but maybe I mean the awe of really, really digging it and not just being addicted. An addiction can be described as a behaviour we persist in after the fact of, and regardless of, the realisation that said behaviour may be counter-productive or worse. So, yes, addiction in this case.
Friday, 26 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Jake Gyllsidebar
I would go and see a film about pub darts if Jake Gyllenhaal were in it, but Prince of Persia? Jury still very much out. It could be just awful.
Poor wee Richard
I love Nestor Carbonell. He's always really good in whatever he does, and he has lovely eyes. I thought he played Richard's confusion and terror perfectly and very affectingly in The Substitute, and stood in for many of us in the audience.
He's been strung along like we have - we don't know what a candidate is in this context; we haven't had many (or any) of our questions answered and we resist going anywhere with Smocke on the dubious promise of "come with me and I'll tell you everything" because we have been down that road before. The only place that leads is a dead end and an ad break. Feeling you, Richard.
Also, there's not enough "Nestor" in the world. People should be called Nestor. Especially people on tv, and then they'd get called Nessie. That would be fun, I think.
He's been strung along like we have - we don't know what a candidate is in this context; we haven't had many (or any) of our questions answered and we resist going anywhere with Smocke on the dubious promise of "come with me and I'll tell you everything" because we have been down that road before. The only place that leads is a dead end and an ad break. Feeling you, Richard.
Also, there's not enough "Nestor" in the world. People should be called Nestor. Especially people on tv, and then they'd get called Nessie. That would be fun, I think.
Still foxy after all these years
Would I be as big a fan of Lost if Matthew Fox were not as close to physical perfection as it is humanly possible to be? Maybe, maybe not. We'll never know. We only know that Matthew Fox is close on perfect. You can get away with a lot when you are that good looking, people (i.e., me) tend to auto-fill the gaps in your charm with projections constructed from how good looking you are.
That aside, Lighthouse was a study of Jack's new off-island life as an automaton, living in a sterile apartment with a push-bike for company, changing clothes without showering and not enjoying a very sterile relationship with his son. Yes, SON! Da da duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. Too self involved with his own damage and self-pity regarding his lost time with his father and his father's lost corpse to see that his son is a total brat that someone should have talked to a looooooooong time ago.
So, Jack's son, David (father of King Solomon) must have a mother. Unlikely to be Sarah, as since the bomb she probably never even had her accident and managed to dance at her wedding with that douche Kevin. So, is it going to be Juliette? Part of me would like it to be Ana Lucia, as she is hot and needs a break since Avatar. I'd also quite like it to be Libby, although if Libby and Jack were together they should have loads of kids and still be together, but likely Hurley and Libby are together in new off-island life. Maybe Penny? Who else is there? David has colouring similar to Jack so that's no help.
Also, can I just say, Mrs Shephard? That will was RIGHT ON THE SHELF BEHIND THE DESK. Could someone not have made that a little harder to find, please? She was like bleating on the phone and getting her son to rifle through boxes. Lazy directing from someone.
That aside, Lighthouse was a study of Jack's new off-island life as an automaton, living in a sterile apartment with a push-bike for company, changing clothes without showering and not enjoying a very sterile relationship with his son. Yes, SON! Da da duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. Too self involved with his own damage and self-pity regarding his lost time with his father and his father's lost corpse to see that his son is a total brat that someone should have talked to a looooooooong time ago.
So, Jack's son, David (father of King Solomon) must have a mother. Unlikely to be Sarah, as since the bomb she probably never even had her accident and managed to dance at her wedding with that douche Kevin. So, is it going to be Juliette? Part of me would like it to be Ana Lucia, as she is hot and needs a break since Avatar. I'd also quite like it to be Libby, although if Libby and Jack were together they should have loads of kids and still be together, but likely Hurley and Libby are together in new off-island life. Maybe Penny? Who else is there? David has colouring similar to Jack so that's no help.
Also, can I just say, Mrs Shephard? That will was RIGHT ON THE SHELF BEHIND THE DESK. Could someone not have made that a little harder to find, please? She was like bleating on the phone and getting her son to rifle through boxes. Lazy directing from someone.
Half thriller, half filler
Well, my last blog post was 14 days ago* - can you tell why? Why might that be? Because there isn't much to hook into yet with the new season? If we are going to get any real answers or conclusions - which, especially with this show, is a pretty big if in the first place - they're going to be coming pretty fast and heavy in the last half of the season, it seems to me.
"What Kate Does" was pretty good, even for a Kate episode, which I was not crazy about. I don't like Kate. I don't know why not, really. Maybe because I don't like some of the choices EL makes as an actor, but I don't even think that is it, really, I have never liked the character. I wish I could put my finger on it but there you go. But in terms of an episode which could kick off a new direction for the mythos - I don't really know if I am using that word correctly, I have started hearing it recently, I'm not sure what it means actually - there were a lot of "big audible gasp" moments. Ethan, for one. That was pretty amazing, didn't see that coming. Sawyer crying; Sayid being electroshock therapy-ed; Jack taking the pill, and of course the wonderful emergence of Clare with the rifle and the awful perm.
And Kate pulled a handgun on pregnant Clare. That is hardcore, Kate. Unless it is possible to overlook the person you are carjacking is really, really, really pregnant until after the fact. Do we believe that or do we believe that Kate is hardcore? Whatever, but we do know now categorically that Kate cannot be trusted under any circumstance and the tears don't cut any ice with me, sister. I have FIRED people - crying? Red kryptonite to me, baby.
"The Substitute" was quite dull. I'm not a big fan of off-island Locke, his hidden depths don't interest me. I want the depths out in the open. Either that or you need to be a whole lot hotter and younger. No offence. And, again, it didn't really progress any of the pre-existing questions we have. However, Sawyer and Smocke (if it were Jacob infecting Locke then it would be Jocke, but I don't know who he is, only that it is the same entity as the black smoke, so he is Smocke) are good together and the cattywompus with the cave names at the end was pretty phenomenal.
Long story short - if it's not too late for that - I am glad Lost is back but it's not as kick-ass as I was expecting or hoping for.
* and that wasn't even about Lost.
"What Kate Does" was pretty good, even for a Kate episode, which I was not crazy about. I don't like Kate. I don't know why not, really. Maybe because I don't like some of the choices EL makes as an actor, but I don't even think that is it, really, I have never liked the character. I wish I could put my finger on it but there you go. But in terms of an episode which could kick off a new direction for the mythos - I don't really know if I am using that word correctly, I have started hearing it recently, I'm not sure what it means actually - there were a lot of "big audible gasp" moments. Ethan, for one. That was pretty amazing, didn't see that coming. Sawyer crying; Sayid being electroshock therapy-ed; Jack taking the pill, and of course the wonderful emergence of Clare with the rifle and the awful perm.
And Kate pulled a handgun on pregnant Clare. That is hardcore, Kate. Unless it is possible to overlook the person you are carjacking is really, really, really pregnant until after the fact. Do we believe that or do we believe that Kate is hardcore? Whatever, but we do know now categorically that Kate cannot be trusted under any circumstance and the tears don't cut any ice with me, sister. I have FIRED people - crying? Red kryptonite to me, baby.
"The Substitute" was quite dull. I'm not a big fan of off-island Locke, his hidden depths don't interest me. I want the depths out in the open. Either that or you need to be a whole lot hotter and younger. No offence. And, again, it didn't really progress any of the pre-existing questions we have. However, Sawyer and Smocke (if it were Jacob infecting Locke then it would be Jocke, but I don't know who he is, only that it is the same entity as the black smoke, so he is Smocke) are good together and the cattywompus with the cave names at the end was pretty phenomenal.
Long story short - if it's not too late for that - I am glad Lost is back but it's not as kick-ass as I was expecting or hoping for.
* and that wasn't even about Lost.
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
In our maker's image
Hi
So, Jacob is a shape shifter and is able to take the form of bodies once their normal occupants have shuffled off. So, were all the Dead Losts that have appeared over the course of the story been Jacob? I don't think so, as if he were able to appear to Hurley as Charlie then why would he need help to get off the island?
But, so, on the island - Christian was Jacob, as was Ana Lucia? But not Walt, as he is back home safe with Gramma. Who else is there? Eko's brother? Locke, obviously. What about Clare? We don't know that Clare is dead, but then how did she turn up at casa del Kate?
My point is this. We have been taken from pretty customary character-driven action and adventure to the deepest time travel science fiction. Is it possible that we have another gear change to come, are we going to be taken into theology? Is Jacob actually, erm, Satan? I know this is, to be frank, rather far fetched. But. This little theory of mine is based on something I read recently about how our gods appear to us. A god, a supreme being, will appear to one of us in a form that will not only be the most persuasive, but also the least distracting from the message the god wishes us to hear. This choice can also camouflage the impossibility of a god appearing to us at all and in the first place. If we're all busy and headtripped from having our god appear to us, then how in the name of all that is holy (gold star for that one) can we hear the message?
So, we take it that Jacob Locke is not a good god, and that he is infecting and claiming people from here til Sunday, so then is he Satan?
So, now, if you come back to life from death, you need to have electric shock therapy to make sure you don't turn into a pillar of black island monster smoke? Fair enough, but it seems as with pregnancy tests you can get a false negative but never a false positive? Whatever, all I'm saying at this point is that if Jacob has possessed Sayid, or using his shape, then Jacob is one heck of an actor.
Also, I love Miles. "We'll be in the food court..."
So, Jacob is a shape shifter and is able to take the form of bodies once their normal occupants have shuffled off. So, were all the Dead Losts that have appeared over the course of the story been Jacob? I don't think so, as if he were able to appear to Hurley as Charlie then why would he need help to get off the island?
But, so, on the island - Christian was Jacob, as was Ana Lucia? But not Walt, as he is back home safe with Gramma. Who else is there? Eko's brother? Locke, obviously. What about Clare? We don't know that Clare is dead, but then how did she turn up at casa del Kate?
My point is this. We have been taken from pretty customary character-driven action and adventure to the deepest time travel science fiction. Is it possible that we have another gear change to come, are we going to be taken into theology? Is Jacob actually, erm, Satan? I know this is, to be frank, rather far fetched. But. This little theory of mine is based on something I read recently about how our gods appear to us. A god, a supreme being, will appear to one of us in a form that will not only be the most persuasive, but also the least distracting from the message the god wishes us to hear. This choice can also camouflage the impossibility of a god appearing to us at all and in the first place. If we're all busy and headtripped from having our god appear to us, then how in the name of all that is holy (gold star for that one) can we hear the message?
So, we take it that Jacob Locke is not a good god, and that he is infecting and claiming people from here til Sunday, so then is he Satan?
So, now, if you come back to life from death, you need to have electric shock therapy to make sure you don't turn into a pillar of black island monster smoke? Fair enough, but it seems as with pregnancy tests you can get a false negative but never a false positive? Whatever, all I'm saying at this point is that if Jacob has possessed Sayid, or using his shape, then Jacob is one heck of an actor.
Also, I love Miles. "We'll be in the food court..."
Chuck vs. The Sidebar
Hi
Chuck is a little too thin this season for my taste. Chuck was perfect - per.fect - stood outside his Dad's trailer towards the end of season two. Too much froyo, not enough weiner. And the hair is too bank clerk. People who have lovely hair should let it flow. Let it flow.
Chuck is a little too thin this season for my taste. Chuck was perfect - per.fect - stood outside his Dad's trailer towards the end of season two. Too much froyo, not enough weiner. And the hair is too bank clerk. People who have lovely hair should let it flow. Let it flow.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Sex and the sidebar
Hi
Sidebar: the one and only worthwhile contribution to the overall television canon that was made by the however many damn seasons of Sex and the City we had to endure was that now more and more hot actors are using tongue in love scenes. I don't care if you judge me, I like it.
Sidebar: the one and only worthwhile contribution to the overall television canon that was made by the however many damn seasons of Sex and the City we had to endure was that now more and more hot actors are using tongue in love scenes. I don't care if you judge me, I like it.
First theory
Hi
The bomb worked, but we don't know how far it went back. Except, we know that Des is on the plane so does that mean that he was never on the island? Does that mean he never met Libby, or does that mean he did actually win the yacht race? Hugo is now the luckiest man in the world, so did his Gramps not die, did his Mum's new house not burn down?
How far back does it go? Clearly not all that far back as they all still get born... but let's not get facetious. Clearly it goes far back enough for some of them to make different hair choices and for the US Marshal to gain some weight. So, maybe that is not the right question.
Maybe the right question is: how much further can we advance from this moment in time or from that moment in 2004 (was it 2004?) with two of everyone? Which brings me to my first theory: ultimately the lost Losts will have to make a decision regarding whether they live or die, in order to allow their non-Lost selves to continue to live.
And, what is with the cut on Jack's neck?
The bomb worked, but we don't know how far it went back. Except, we know that Des is on the plane so does that mean that he was never on the island? Does that mean he never met Libby, or does that mean he did actually win the yacht race? Hugo is now the luckiest man in the world, so did his Gramps not die, did his Mum's new house not burn down?
How far back does it go? Clearly not all that far back as they all still get born... but let's not get facetious. Clearly it goes far back enough for some of them to make different hair choices and for the US Marshal to gain some weight. So, maybe that is not the right question.
Maybe the right question is: how much further can we advance from this moment in time or from that moment in 2004 (was it 2004?) with two of everyone? Which brings me to my first theory: ultimately the lost Losts will have to make a decision regarding whether they live or die, in order to allow their non-Lost selves to continue to live.
And, what is with the cut on Jack's neck?
Why?
Hi
So, why do I think that Lost is the best tv show ever? I have subjected a number of people to this theory in person and I hold onto it as a perfect piece of fan girl reasoning (fangirl or fan girl?) and it is basically the reason I have started this blog.
Lost started out marketed as on its high production values, and we were told again and again how it was the most expensive pilot ever made, etc etc. We were introduced to the characters and the format and the peril very early on. It was momentous. It was beautiful and lovingly crafted and they were all half naked. It was great. And each ep was a back story with just enough literary references to make it just pseudo-intellectual enough to be taken seriously by critics and even people who don't really watch tv.
If The X-files was a movie every week, The Wire was a Russian novel and ER/NYP Blue were pure television, then Lost was the tv equivalent of America's greatest literary whole-genre contribution, the short story. (I also have a great deal of time for the epic poetry of Walt Whitman but this is a much more succinct way to go.) What the makers of Lost did by stealth - by stealth, mind you - was turn all these stock characters and the time-old story line of a shipwreck into full blown, and pretty challenging, science fiction. Now, they haven't kept all their audiences, but they have managed to keep many of us and they have done it with a straight face. And I love that, and I therefore believe that Lost is the best tv show ever.
That is (a motif may be crystallising even as I type) simplistic and reductive but I do think that this will be a theme I return to time and again.
But I do applaud Lost for reaching out to those members of the tv watching population who do triage on the movies they go see like "is there time travel, spaceships, aliens, unanswered non-closure questions, a mythology, the possibility that the twist at the end is that Charlton Heston was on Earth all along, any variation on the above? Yes? Then we'll go see the Adam Sandler instead, or else do you have something in a hostage situation?" and basically punking them into watching science fiction.
Bravo, Lost. Bravo.
So, why do I think that Lost is the best tv show ever? I have subjected a number of people to this theory in person and I hold onto it as a perfect piece of fan girl reasoning (fangirl or fan girl?) and it is basically the reason I have started this blog.
Lost started out marketed as on its high production values, and we were told again and again how it was the most expensive pilot ever made, etc etc. We were introduced to the characters and the format and the peril very early on. It was momentous. It was beautiful and lovingly crafted and they were all half naked. It was great. And each ep was a back story with just enough literary references to make it just pseudo-intellectual enough to be taken seriously by critics and even people who don't really watch tv.
If The X-files was a movie every week, The Wire was a Russian novel and ER/NYP Blue were pure television, then Lost was the tv equivalent of America's greatest literary whole-genre contribution, the short story. (I also have a great deal of time for the epic poetry of Walt Whitman but this is a much more succinct way to go.) What the makers of Lost did by stealth - by stealth, mind you - was turn all these stock characters and the time-old story line of a shipwreck into full blown, and pretty challenging, science fiction. Now, they haven't kept all their audiences, but they have managed to keep many of us and they have done it with a straight face. And I love that, and I therefore believe that Lost is the best tv show ever.
That is (a motif may be crystallising even as I type) simplistic and reductive but I do think that this will be a theme I return to time and again.
But I do applaud Lost for reaching out to those members of the tv watching population who do triage on the movies they go see like "is there time travel, spaceships, aliens, unanswered non-closure questions, a mythology, the possibility that the twist at the end is that Charlton Heston was on Earth all along, any variation on the above? Yes? Then we'll go see the Adam Sandler instead, or else do you have something in a hostage situation?" and basically punking them into watching science fiction.
Bravo, Lost. Bravo.
An enquiry into etiquette
Hi
What is the etiquette regarding spoiler alerts? I am not hooked into the Lost inner sanctum (I do believe they are fond of a mixed metaphor themselves, though, so consider that a tribute) so I don't mean spoilers in the strictest sense but perhaps more I mean theories. If I have a theory about what will happen next, or what will happen ultimately, should I declare that? What do other bloggers do? I am far too egocentric to frequent many other blogs, so I don't really know. The blogs I read are all about make-up or bands, so.
Suggestions or requests welcome. But, hurry because I do have a theory which I am burning to get down.
Also, I get to see Lost on a Saturday morning (London time) so there will be some catching up to do and if you are commenting try to bite your tongue on spoiling me. 'Preciate it.
What is the etiquette regarding spoiler alerts? I am not hooked into the Lost inner sanctum (I do believe they are fond of a mixed metaphor themselves, though, so consider that a tribute) so I don't mean spoilers in the strictest sense but perhaps more I mean theories. If I have a theory about what will happen next, or what will happen ultimately, should I declare that? What do other bloggers do? I am far too egocentric to frequent many other blogs, so I don't really know. The blogs I read are all about make-up or bands, so.
Suggestions or requests welcome. But, hurry because I do have a theory which I am burning to get down.
Also, I get to see Lost on a Saturday morning (London time) so there will be some catching up to do and if you are commenting try to bite your tongue on spoiling me. 'Preciate it.
Introductions and expectations
Hi.
I believe that Lost is the best tv show ever. I know that it's not really possible for a show to be the best show ever, the world and the English language don't work like that. But, I do believe that Lost is the best tv show ever. Let's call it a leap of faith.
In terms of credentials up front, I should also say that I don't hate the Matrix trilogy because I applaud the attempt. What they did with the Matrix was try to create a brand new mythology that was a) for the big screen in its first inception, and not originally a novel, tv show, stand up routine, comic book or, heaven forfend, fairground ride; and b) not based on a previous genre, in the way that westerns bastardise samurai movies and sci-fi bastardises westerns. Secondly, what they tried to do was create a new mythology based not upon a physical adventure, but upon philosophy. The fact that they weren't 100% successful in creating a trilogy that was watchable in the conventional sense of the word goes some way to explaining, perhaps, why no one had attempted this before. If not why the Warchowski brothers were bullied throughout school.
So, that para was more about me that Lost, but may give an indication of what this blog will taste like. (Reductive and simplistic? - Caz's inner self-critic.)
I should also make it clear that I am the kind of girl who will only think of snappy, coolly cross-referential titles for her blog only days and days after they have been posted. So, sorry about that. Also, I watch Chuck, so now we all know that I am easily swayed by a pretty face especially when supported by a 6-foot-plus snake-hip frame and a willingness to use tongue in screen kissing.
Yeah, so, in short, I am your worst nightmare, an semi-intellectual fan girl with a theory and a lot of time on her hands.
I believe that Lost is the best tv show ever. I know that it's not really possible for a show to be the best show ever, the world and the English language don't work like that. But, I do believe that Lost is the best tv show ever. Let's call it a leap of faith.
In terms of credentials up front, I should also say that I don't hate the Matrix trilogy because I applaud the attempt. What they did with the Matrix was try to create a brand new mythology that was a) for the big screen in its first inception, and not originally a novel, tv show, stand up routine, comic book or, heaven forfend, fairground ride; and b) not based on a previous genre, in the way that westerns bastardise samurai movies and sci-fi bastardises westerns. Secondly, what they tried to do was create a new mythology based not upon a physical adventure, but upon philosophy. The fact that they weren't 100% successful in creating a trilogy that was watchable in the conventional sense of the word goes some way to explaining, perhaps, why no one had attempted this before. If not why the Warchowski brothers were bullied throughout school.
So, that para was more about me that Lost, but may give an indication of what this blog will taste like. (Reductive and simplistic? - Caz's inner self-critic.)
I should also make it clear that I am the kind of girl who will only think of snappy, coolly cross-referential titles for her blog only days and days after they have been posted. So, sorry about that. Also, I watch Chuck, so now we all know that I am easily swayed by a pretty face especially when supported by a 6-foot-plus snake-hip frame and a willingness to use tongue in screen kissing.
Yeah, so, in short, I am your worst nightmare, an semi-intellectual fan girl with a theory and a lot of time on her hands.
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