Lost and Other Stuff

*  {{hugs}} and thanks to Rowan for the e-gift!

*  Finally finished Blackout by Connie Willis, and --as warned -- it ended on a cliffhanger.  I want the sequel now.  The story definitely picked up in the last half of the book when the characters began to worry whether their actions had changed history and followed each of their dawning realizations that they may be permanently stuck in the past.  I was particularly moved by the sequence when Polly concluded that her fellow air-raid shelterers had died in the Blitz. 

But now I need the sequel All Clear to discover whether they actually changed the course of WWII and whether they all make it home to the year 2060.


* Lost tonight!    USA Today has an article/review.

Quote Excerpt:

Lost has always been a series of paradoxes — a beautifully told, universally sound drama of personal redemption wrapped within a sometimes maddeningly perplexing spiritual/sci-fi fantasy.{...}  And yet Lost is also unlike any network show before, since and probably to come, a series liberated by its unprecedented, pre-set, three-years-in-advance end date to be as bizarre and intricate as it likes.  Just try to explain the current plot — with its sideways leaps into an alternate universe, its battle between seemingly eternal beings who may or may not represent good and evil, and  its transformation of one of the show's characters into the human representation of a monster — to someone who has never seen the show.

If ratings and renewal were still an issue, how likely is it that ABC would be on board for story lines that leave you wondering not just who and where people are, but when and in which universe {...}   Still, while those magical-mystery answers are of interest, it's a mistake to let them consume your viewing energy. As the show reminds us time and time again, it's not the island that's "lost" — or Lost — but rather its characters. What matters most isn't the way the smoke is blowing; it's Jack's loss of faith, Sawyer's loss of humanity, and Sun's loss of Jin.  Jacob and the Man in Black are beyond our grasp; it's the people they're using who are the soul of the show...

 

Lost and Other Stuff

*  {{hugs}} and thanks to Rowan for the e-gift!

*  Finally finished Blackout by Connie Willis, and --as warned -- it ended on a cliffhanger.  I want the sequel now.  The story definitely picked up in the last half of the book when the characters began to worry whether their actions had changed history and followed each of their dawning realizations that they may be permanently stuck in the past.  I was particularly moved by the sequence when Polly concluded that her fellow air-raid shelterers had died in the Blitz. 

But now I need the sequel All Clear to discover whether they actually changed the course of WWII and whether they all make it home to the year 2060.


* Lost tonight!    USA Today has an article/review.

Quote Excerpt:

Lost has always been a series of paradoxes — a beautifully told, universally sound drama of personal redemption wrapped within a sometimes maddeningly perplexing spiritual/sci-fi fantasy.{...}  And yet Lost is also unlike any network show before, since and probably to come, a series liberated by its unprecedented, pre-set, three-years-in-advance end date to be as bizarre and intricate as it likes.  Just try to explain the current plot — with its sideways leaps into an alternate universe, its battle between seemingly eternal beings who may or may not represent good and evil, and  its transformation of one of the show's characters into the human representation of a monster — to someone who has never seen the show.

If ratings and renewal were still an issue, how likely is it that ABC would be on board for story lines that leave you wondering not just who and where people are, but when and in which universe {...}   Still, while those magical-mystery answers are of interest, it's a mistake to let them consume your viewing energy. As the show reminds us time and time again, it's not the island that's "lost" — or Lost — but rather its characters. What matters most isn't the way the smoke is blowing; it's Jack's loss of faith, Sawyer's loss of humanity, and Sun's loss of Jin.  Jacob and the Man in Black are beyond our grasp; it's the people they're using who are the soul of the show...

 

Lost and Other Stuff

*  {{hugs}} and thanks to Rowan for the e-gift!

*  Finally finished Blackout by Connie Willis, and --as warned -- it ended on a cliffhanger.  I want the sequel now.  The story definitely picked up in the last half of the book when the characters began to worry whether their actions had changed history and followed each of their dawning realizations that they may be permanently stuck in the past.  I was particularly moved by the sequence when Polly concluded that her fellow air-raid shelterers had died in the Blitz. 

But now I need the sequel All Clear to discover whether they actually changed the course of WWII and whether they all make it home to the year 2060.


* Lost tonight!    USA Today has an article/review.

Quote Excerpt:

Lost has always been a series of paradoxes — a beautifully told, universally sound drama of personal redemption wrapped within a sometimes maddeningly perplexing spiritual/sci-fi fantasy.{...}  And yet Lost is also unlike any network show before, since and probably to come, a series liberated by its unprecedented, pre-set, three-years-in-advance end date to be as bizarre and intricate as it likes.  Just try to explain the current plot — with its sideways leaps into an alternate universe, its battle between seemingly eternal beings who may or may not represent good and evil, and  its transformation of one of the show's characters into the human representation of a monster — to someone who has never seen the show.

If ratings and renewal were still an issue, how likely is it that ABC would be on board for story lines that leave you wondering not just who and where people are, but when and in which universe {...}   Still, while those magical-mystery answers are of interest, it's a mistake to let them consume your viewing energy. As the show reminds us time and time again, it's not the island that's "lost" — or Lost — but rather its characters. What matters most isn't the way the smoke is blowing; it's Jack's loss of faith, Sawyer's loss of humanity, and Sun's loss of Jin.  Jacob and the Man in Black are beyond our grasp; it's the people they're using who are the soul of the show...

 

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LOST

"Cease to be..."

What does that mean? That everyone would die... or fail to exist in their current lives?( Other stuff )

LOST

"Cease to be..."

What does that mean? That everyone would die... or fail to exist in their current lives?( Other stuff )

LOST

"Cease to be..."

What does that mean? That everyone would die... or fail to exist in their current lives?( Other stuff )