Physics, My Ass. (original) (raw)

| I was just talking in my last entry about how nice it was to be able to experience a full story over the course of forty minutes in an episode of television, and Lost promptly decided it was going to start ending every episode on a cliffhanger. That'll show me.I'm up to episode twelve of Lost, 'Whatever the Case May Be'!'Solitary' made me sit up and take notice of Sayid:Lost: Hey, we heard you like self-loathing guys who are haunted by the terrible things they did in the military and end up on both sides of torture scenes! Riona: Stop trying to appeal to my love of John Reese! None of these characters are John Reese!Riona: But... but you're right; that is pretty good.I also enjoyed all the weird face-stroking while Sayid was restrained. Extremely alarming. I'm intrigued. While I'm generally sceptical about Jack/Kate, 'All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues' may have won me around to the concept of Jack/Kate/Charlie. I feel bad for Shannon. No confidence in herself at all, and no wonder, given the way Boone talks to her. She's also been quite isolated - she hasn't interacted much with anyone but Boone - so it's good to see her working with Sayid. I'm constantly impressed by how gorgeous this show is. I'd never have guessed it was made almost twenty years ago. Although House started in the same year and also still looks great, so maybe I just haven't mentally adjusted to 'almost twenty years ago' meaning 2004 rather than, say, 1990. (2004 was a great year for impactful television series with hard-to-Google titles.)My vague osmosis of this show was 'it starts like a fairly standard castaway story, then gets increasingly weird'. I think I underestimated how weird it would be from the beginning, but it certainly does get increasingly weird.My half-remembered Lost osmosis keeps getting tangled with half-remembered scenes from reading Lord of the Flies when I was a teenager. I've been expecting a dead parachutist to show up on the edge of a cliff, but I've just double-checked and, nope, that's Lord of the Flies. I can't keep my 'stranded on an island' stories straight.Tags:house, lost, person of interest | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |