So, I was roped by breasts into watching the first few episodes of Lost (actually, buying the first season on DVD), and I must say: it is incredibly creepy and really really watchable. Hooray!

I can’t imagine why you’d have expected otherwise! Aside from that supercool gal, Zach & I told you, too.

On Sunday night we watched a whole disc of season 2. Every episode was too engrossing. I get so creeped out. And then they’d do that cruel plot-skip kind of thing, where they’d wait one more episode before they came back to a previous point. That drives me crazy. But I love it anyway.

I almost hope I don’t catch up by the time the next season comes out, because I think I’d die waiting week-to-week for the show. I need to be able to satisfy my consuming interest with a quick trip to Blockbuster.

what is blockbuster?

I have said for a very long time that it’s amazing – and I have been rebuffed by one Art Allen for an equal length of time. I now feel entitled to an “I Told You So”!

That’s twice, Art, that you should’ve trusted me when I told you a show was good. Boston Legal, and now Lost. :-)

Also – I am equally as confused by Andy as to what this “blockbuster” you are speaking of is? Lost is a TV show – not an incredibly profitable movie.

“And then they’d do that cruel plot-skip kind of thing, where they’d wait one more episode before they came back to a previous point.”

Dragonball Z?

Will it make us sound less in the stone age if I tell you we have the netflix version of blockbuster where they come to us AND we exchange them in store? Haha

I have a question for you early in your Lost-viewing, Art: who’s your favorite? Mine changed a billion times during the course of that season. A sign of nice character work, I think.

I’m just sick of this series. Seasons 1 and 2 were great. After that, it became clear that not only were they not going to be answering any questions any time soon, but that they were also getting themselves so hopelessly mired down in ridiculously crazy offshoot bizarre supernatural plot threads that there would be absolutely no suitable explanation for the happenings in the series at the “big picture” level. Unless it’s all “just a dream,” or something equally stupid.

Re: characters, I always liked Sawyer best and hated Kate. Jack is a dick.

That’s what I’ve heard from a couple people, Cameron—I am only just starting the 2nd so I’m sad to think maybe it’ll ever be less good… but I’m so the kind of viewer who loves stupid crazy supernatural plot threads. I might be forgiving. We’ll see. The consensus seems to be that it kind of starts to suck, though.

And yeah, Jack has such a god complex.

Stay with the series. Season 3 got a little mired, but in Season 4 things got interesting again. Some of the questions start to get answered and some of the characters get fleshed out quite a bit further. I’m sticking with it through the end.

The producers swear up and down they know how they’re going to end it, and they assure us – the viewing public – that it’s not a dream or purgatory or something stupid like that.

I flat out don’t believe them. There is no conceivable explanation that would be satisfactory at this point for me.

And re: crazy supernatural plot threads, I also have an unusually high tolerance for such things… but Lost just lost me. I disagree that it gets more interesting in Season 4. They answer some questions that don’t really matter, but raise even more that further complicate things.