(WARNING: People who don’t care about Lost will think this is boring, and people who do care about Lost but haven’t seen tonight’s episode will be spoiled. So basically, nobody should read this.)
Dear “Lost,”
I want to like you, I really do. Your first season was so promising. Sure, it scared me senseless, but it was intriguing. Your second season, although not as tight, still (mostly) held my interest. But your third season… well, let’s just say my reaction to finding out that you are going on hiatus until February was, “Good! Now I don’t have to watch this stupid show every week.”
Do you want to know how bad it really is? Well, so help me, Lost, but I was not even sad when Mr. Eko died last week. Mr. Eko! And he was, like, my favorite character last year! Do you see how senseless this third season has made me? I just don’t care anymore.
I’m sorry. But I can only take so much beating up of main characters and mysterious “others” talk before I have to say, enough is enough! There have been so many times when it seemed that nobody—not even you!—could take yourself seriously anymore. When Locke entered his “smoke hut” contraption and started hallucinating about Boone my ’shark jumping‘ sense was tingling.
But I’m not saying goodbye for good… yet. Three months is a long time; by February I will probably be ready to give it another try.
But please, Lost, I am begging you: when you come back, leave your melodrama, your gratuitous sex and violence, and your gory operating scenes at the door. If you don’t… well, if you don’t, I might be saying “sianara” to your island and its messed-up little inhabitants for good.
And we don’t want that, do we? :-p
Sincerely,
Erin
November 9th, 2006 at 4:42 am
Don’t worry – I’m sure they’ll answer all the questions in February, including where the heck Sun and Jin are.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Its taken a Lost post to get me out of lurker mode. Great blog!
Lost has lost my trust though I continue to watch it because my wife is desperately clinging to the hope that it will somehow turn back into the show it once was.
Lost used to be a mystery and speak to the human condition. That’s what made the first season so great. Now its just mean people doing things to other mean people. Yip-py.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:17 am
I feel like I’m currently in a bad relationship with Lost. I’ll stick with it because it feels comfortable, but I have a sad, dissapointed feeling in my heart when I go to sleep on Thursday nights.
Perhaps, perhaps if they threw in at least one scene with Rose and Bernard I’d feel a little more self respect right now, but when it’s all Kate, Jack and Sawyer acting like kids with elementary school crushes, it’s hard for me to justify why I’m sticking with this show.
It can only be a good thing that we’re taking a 13 week hiatus. Perhaps I can come back with fresh eyes, and Lost can be the show that it was when we first met in 2004.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Hey! You’re right! I don’t care about LOST!! Now if we were talking about Metalocolypse. Well, that would be the most metal thing eva.
If you want to know what I’m talking about, go do adultswim.com and search for Metalocolypse or just go to my mspace and check out the first video on the right…
November 10th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Seriously!!! Lost is like ‘Gilligan’s Island’ on speed. I was way over it before the 1st season was even underway. However, my lady has roped me into the 3rd season and yeah, i’m sometimes intrigued, but mostly I get mad at how stupid they think we all are. People are sheep and Lost is just a over-dramatized-gilligan’s-island-soa-opera. And the sheep are eating it up… so unfortuneately Gilligan and his crew are destined to live out their unpredictable frustrating silly days on Hawaii. How do I get cast on that show?!