(post by not-MGK author Dan Solomon)
Because we all love Lost, but can struggle to find the 22 hours required to re-watch an entire season after we know where all of the plot twists are going to come in, it’s clear we’ve all been seeking the ideal medium for enjoying an entire season’s events in roughly an hour. But which medium is appropriate? Which medium?
Well, obviously, it’s indie rock. Because the Flaming Lips may sing about robots and wizards and Superman, but even they aren’t quite nerdy enough to pen songs with titles like "Be My Constant" or "The Ballad of Sayid Jarrah". Brooklyn’s Previously On Lost has taken up the slack, complete with nasally vocals and a coke-fueled rhythm track. If you’re a Lost fan who’s secretly lamented the fact that you couldn’t dance to "There’s No Place Like Home, Part I", I hope that this provides you with what you never even knew you were missing.
Also, maybe y’all have seen it before, but the (severely missed) Mike Wieringo posted a series of Lost-themed sketches on his DeviantArt page in 2006 that I just found. They’re great, and now this post’s a two-fer.
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LOST, seen through the eyes
of Wieringo; I applaud
(it was a good show)
Such a shame :/
I stopped watching around season thirty. Has anything actually happened yet?
“Because we all love Lost” – whoa there ! Back that bus right up. I can’t be the only one that thinks that Lost was the first TV show that came with the shark pre-jumped ?
Yes. Stuff has been happening.
S3 was slower than it should’ve been, but the rest has been pretty well-paced, IMHO.
Jump the Shark means a moment when a show loses all credibility even with its fans. How did Lost do that with the fans it did not yet have?
There were plenty of people pre-enthused about the show, based on hearsay and those involved. The premise sounded good to me, the actuality…..
I’ve watched the first episode a number of times trying to catch a glimpse of what fans see in this show and I keep coming to the conclusion that it’s piffle. It just makes no sense to me from the outset and I doubt strongly if there is any possibility of the whole thing being tied up neatly in a bow. Some appreciate the ambiguity, I do not. I don’t like my TV shows to demand home study to work out what it is I may (or may not) have just seen.
YMMV
I love weirdness. I love complicated plots. Lost however, have left me cold. Started watching it with great anticipation but no… not even a little. The characters annoyed me and the pacing sucked.
Still, it is a cool idea for a concept album.