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Because I work at an ABC station, I saw a lot of Lost without the sound on tonight. I simply cannot bring myself to care about the show. It has the blandest leads ever. The actress who plays Kate is only mildly attractive and mildly interesting. I can’t believe anyone would do anything crazy or fight over her. And, to quote Seth Rogen, you know what’s interesting about Matthew Fox? Nothing.
A slightly smaller problem with Lost is something that I like to call the “Third Season Suck.” By the third season of any TV show, no matter how good it is, it starts to fade (the Wire is the exception that proves the rule as its 4th season was its best. However, the 5th season wasn’t as good as the ones before). The middle of the first to the end of the second seasons tend to be great and it’s all downhill after that as, because all shows go on until they get cancelled, they have to get more and more preposterous or tread over well worn ground to buy time and keep the show going until sweeps and the season finale. I feel that all shows should be limited to two, sometimes three, seasons before they are cancelled or forced to recast the entire thing to keep things fresh.
Humorously, Lost suffers from the same problem as One Tree Hill (though OTH was never good and Lost was once okay): it has gone on for way too long and things just get more and more ridiculous. For example, here is how the survivors go back to the island in 1977: they get on a one way flight to Guam, smuggle Locke’s corpse on board, survive a lightning strike while in flight, and wake up on the island with no specific memory of how they got there. Where’s a Delorean when you need one?
Now, I’m not one of those people who hates on stuff I haven’t experienced. Okay, maybe I am. I hate on Zac Effron, Miley Cyrus, and Twilight without having experienced any of it, but I have seen quite a bit of Lost. I watched a little of the 1st season when it started but stopped when I realized that all the important stuff only happens in the first and last five minutes of each episode (which is something that can be extended to the show as a whole. the entire second season was useless.) I started back up at the beginning of the 4th season as a girl I was really into at the time was really into the show. I caught up and used the show as an excuse to spend time with her. My complaints remained the same and I stopped watching about halfway through the season.
I simply cannot bring myself to watch a show with boring leads and a preposterous plot. It reminds me way to much of the 6th Day, which also featured time travel (it’s so hot right now), watered down action, and a charisma challenged leading man. I want to jump into my phone booth, travel back to 2004 and make JJ Abrams do something else. (Preferably Fringe, which is right in its first season sweet spot.)
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