[mermaidgirl13]

Bummer!

When LOST comes back on in February, it's going to be at 10 p.m. instead of 9.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/06/t...reut/index.html

[kittenb]

"Damn, where is she finding a curling iron on that island." It's gotta be a Dharma drop.

I love the idea of the Initiative just dropping beauty supplies. I bet they also drop Veet "bladeless" razors for the women as well.

I am still interested in the show. I want to see more of Locke leading everybody.

Is anyone watching Daybreak? It is pretty fun.

Lunasol, do you mean an actor or a character?

[mermaidgirl13]

Lunasol, where did you hear that?

I have no guesses. Seems like everyone's flashbacks have shown relationships....

(hope that's not too spoiler-y --- I can't get the white text to work)

[lunasol]

Ok, it's late at night and I am rambling. I have declared the two random new characters "Hispanic Sawyer" and "Slutty Kate" to the amusement of my viewing group.

Apparently, the actress who plays her is Hispanic too, so I guess they're supposed to be new "color" on the island, now that they've killed off or exiled most of the non-white people (has anyone else been noticing that? Such a horror movie cliche). Hey! It just occurred to me that all the Others are white. White-supremicist "Master Race" colony?

Did anyone else hear that (spoiler in white) someone on the show is going to come out? Who do you think it is?


Also: Mando, I think I want to start watching Heroes too, but I'm in the same boat. I may buy the eps on itunes.

[mermaidgirl13]

I'm not sure I'm going to continue watching it. Or I might just ignore it on TV and watch on DVD via Netflix.

[maddy29]

i've lost a lot of interest in lost. ha ha. but really, i used to get so excited about it (yes, i'm a big loser) and now i'm like ehhh. whatever. the commercials drive me nuts, and the show itself is just going way too far out there. it does feel like twin peaks, they just keep adding new weird things ,and not explaining anything!

i'm sure i'll still watch it, but man, they better have some stuff explained!

[ImDancingBarefoo...]

Hihi!

I am new to this thread and I'm bumming that there will be no new Lost this week. This is the first season Ive watched on tv. It's been good in places, eh in others. I'm over Jack. He bugs me. Just kind of a self-righteous prick. I am more sick of the Jack-Kate-Sawyer thing. I think I got sick of that during the first season. I mean, it got obvious pretty quick, there is NO chemistry between Kate and Jack in my opinion. Anyway, looks like that may have been settled.

Ok, it's late at night and I am rambling. I have declared the two random new characters "Hispanic Sawyer" and "Slutty Kate" to the amusement of my viewing group. Although perhaps it should be "Blonde Kate". I'm not totally settled on New Kate's nickname. The first thing I noticed about that new guy is that he has the exact same hairstyle and facial scrub as Sawyer. And he seems to have a semi-jerk/wise-cracking attitude only without the literary references. When "Blonde Kate" (I think I'm liking this better than Slutty Kate especially since I hate calling a girl slutty but that's a whole other conversation.) Anyway, when "Blonde Kate" showed up one of the girls I was watching with went "Damn, where is she finding a curling iron on that island." It's gotta be a Dharma drop. Anyway, "Blonde Kate": Same hairstyle, has only been seen in tank tops and shorts (variation from Kate's usual pants). Always wants in on the adventure although apparently she didn't give a damn for the first 65, 70 days or so. Wait! No! I got it! There can only be one adventuresome woman on the island. It's kind of like The Slayer, one dies then another rises to take her place. When Kate was removed from the island, Blonde Kate suddenly had the desire to be in on the adventures! That's it!

I do love Lost but I am finding that it is really fun to make fun of too.

Have any of you seen a movie called "Bride & Prejudice"? It is basically Pride & Prejudice Bollywood style, it features Naveen Andrews, and it is wonderful. My brain did have strange spinning sensations watching Sayid sing and dance with a huge grin. Wonderful, yet very weird.

Now I should really go to bed.

[ImDancingBarefoo...]

What about Desmond or Sayid? What is going on with Rose and Bearnard? Anybody else?

Yes, I would like to see more of Desmond myself. I think he's one of the most interesting characters right now. I'm also hoping that perhaps the other hatch could blow off his clothes again? Please? Or it blow off Sayid's clothes. That would be a-ok with me too!

And that is probably enough with my little fantasies.

I do miss Rose and Bernard. I just love them. They give me warm fuzzies and such.

Ok, I'm new here so I'm going to check out more of the board.

[ginger_kitty]

Against my better judgement I watched last night. How dissapointing!!!! I am done, the show has just gotten boring. This season showed way too much Kate, Jack, Saywer crap. What about Desmond or Sayid? What is going on with Rose and Bearnard? Anybody else? The writing has just been crap.

I have been watching Hero's since the season started. Love it!!! But I think you have to watch every episode to know what is going on.

Maybe I'll lurk back in here next year to see if Lost any better and give it another chance, but for now it's just to lame for me.

[amilita]

Yup, I'm not impressed, either. And I just read those quotes from the producers about how the more aggravated the audience is, the better. Huh. Not so much, because at some point, we are just going to be over it! I'm Netflixing the rest of the season, too.

I kept thinking...surely there will be payoff at some point, right? Surely we'll find out what the deal is with anything!! The island, the others, the numbers, the mystery...and then I think: Twin Peaks. That show just fell apart. And that's what's happing with Lost, for me.

And I miss Syaid, too. He was one of my favorites. I liked the whole international-ness of the cast and then all I get is Sawyer/Kate/what's his name...I seriously can't think of it...oh! Jack! Yeah, whatever.

I can't get into Heros. I wish I could. I tried. I think watching entire seasons on DVD is the way to go with everything. I like immersing myself in a show for a little while.

[mandolyn]

welcome back, wasabi!

ditto, ditto and more ditto. (but it's a three-month hiatus.)

i take it nbc doesn't rebroadcast episodes on their website, like abc does? i'm feeling the need to jump on the heroes bandwagon, but i'm six episodes behind. wah.

[WasabiNinja]

First the hate...

What the fuck is wrong with the producers of this show!? They need to put down their crackpipes and get their act together. Why did I feel like I spent a most of the hour skipping past commercials. I mean it was just excessive. Bless my tivo, but the bleep bleeping got annoying. And I don't give two shits about the new groundhog day drama, I'm tryin' to watch my stories for fucks sake. A two month hiatus??? Are you trying to kill the show? All the actors getting island fever? No character developement, stupid bullshit flashbacks about the least interesting LOST personas. I'm afraid the show has lost me.


Now the love...

I'm glad they brought back Locke of the outback. I love when he is wondering the island having adventures. Fighting polar bears with a torch and a can of aqua net, priceless. And Desmond is sexy, that Scottish accent just makes me tingle all over. That is pretty much it.

I think Heroes is my new main squeeze. Lots of characters and plot developement!

[prophecy_grrl]

I'm with kitten on this one; I enjoyed last night's episode. Actually, so far I think season 3 is a huge improvment over season 2.

Kate's flashback was pretty worthless- ‘cept it had Cap’n Mal, so I didn’t mind so much.

Personally, I thing Kate, Jack, and Sawyer are the least interesting characters on the show. Why oh why do they get so much screen time? What about Sayid – has he had a back story since season 1?

I wonder if they’ll ever start back stories on the Others . . . that would be worth seeing.

[mandolyn]

"Did anyone feel like they got anything out of Kate's flashback?"

yes. that she's more of an asshole than i thought. i didn't get that she was even trying to 'put her past behind her', or that she really loved cop-serenity dood. i suspect they were trying to drum up more sympathy for her or something, but i couldn't get past her duping nice-enough people so nastily, and for no reason. she didn't even make a stunning bride.

i was reading the "bitterness thread" on TWoP last night, and these asshat writer/producers are condescending idjits, and deserve every ounce of vitriol & crap criticism. and how dare they dangle "nuggets" in this new show taking over the weds 9pm slot?! fuck them & their high horses. february 7th can come and go for all i care. i'll be netflixing the rest of this season. or not.

[mermaidgirl13]

I'm with you ErinJane, I didn't find it exciting at all. Although I felt that way about this whole season, so if I'm comparing it just to this season, it was good. The cliffhanger wasn't that great, but it wasn't terrible either.

I don't know what changed for me, but I just hardly care at all anymore.

I am glad that Jack didn't just do the surgery like they asked. I think he played it right and it was the first time this season that he didn't piss me off.

And I was glad to see Alex again and know that she really is trying to help them, even though the way they showed it was a little silly. Obviously she can't just run in and save them and she should know that. But I guess she was upset about her boyfriend.

Did anyone feel like they got anything out of Kate's flashback?

[erinjane]

Really? I wasn't pleased with it at all. Same old boring stuff. I mean, at least a little bit of something happened, but I'm not even curious to see what happens and if Ben dies or Kate and Sawyer leave. I was yawning through most of it.

[kittenb]

I think that episode was better than the whole last season.
Or at least a good part of last season.

[WasabiNinja]

LOST is becoming so Rambaldi. It tries to be so mysterious but it all goes flat. I am glad that Locke the hunter is back. I hated him all couped up in the hatch last season.

I thought Eko was cool and it sucks that they built him up to be an important character for nothing!

They need to stop diggging graves and start having those floaty fiery funerals like the Others. I am still watching but I'm not even half as excited as I used to be. I don't have LOST parties anymore. Too bad.

[prophecy_grrl]

You are all so right; I too have a love/hate relationship with Lost.

I'm actually really pissed that they killed Eko - he was one of my favorite characters (still love Hurley and Sayid, too - where are more of their back stories, BTW?). By far the most compelling and mysterious on the show. I was not a huge fan of the tailees either, but I was annoyed that they killed Ana Lucia just when she started to get interesting. Grr.

As for the short season, I think the network gimmick is a good one for the most part - I hate those long breaks:

Lost producers hope a re-run free split season will help redeem the series and bring viewers back. Lost will run for six episodes then break for 13 weeks, returning with 17 more episodes to be broadcast without reruns. The network will compensate the advertisers by running extended versions of the episodes in a straight run following the completion of the third season. The extended versions will add additional footage into the season three episodes in an attempt to lure die-hard viewers back for another look.

- from BuddyTV.com, 9/27/06

The thing I try to tell myself whenever I start to feel manipulated and the plot and pacing start to grow tiresome (way too often!), is that only 70 or so days have actually passed on the island. Sometimes I think I'd be better off waiting until the series is over and then watching the whole thing on DVD. I think it looses a lot in the serial TV format.

[vesicapisces]

Dear Mandolyn - I lurve you.

However, I foresee my relationship with this show running much like Twin Peaks (again, can't help myself, but the parallels are striking) where despite my increasing frustration I tune in again and again in hopes that somehow, this will be the week they finally redeem the original premise and the first season.... only to be disappointed again. It's like that guy who made your toes curl when you started seeing each other but by the time you're invested in the relationship the sex is only ho-hum - and you keep seeing him/sleeping with him because maybe, just maybe this will be the time you reach those multiple orgasms again... and find yourself left high and dry. Again.

Not that I have any personal experience with that sort of relationship.