Lost: Interest.
The entire internet is awash with theories, ideas and speculations about Lost and its great big dissapointing season 4 finale.
Here’s what I think happened:
Lost was a really good idea for a tv show. Really mundane crash land on an island and survive type show. Then some cocky young shit of a writer waltzed in and said “i know lets go paranormal and weird yeah, people lapped up twin peaks and the x-files!”. And so it was done.
Remember when we found out the others were actually quite civilised and they just pretended to have big beards? That was intrigue! That was a twist!
Since then they’ve ploughed on relentlessly with no real purpose or direction and periodically tie up some kind of loose end with a really shit stupid “twist”. Oh yeah claire just walked off into the jungle that’s why she never made it off the island!
So…. how do they escape from the big scary men? You know the army guys sent by Widmore (whats his deal? I know its you Jom Robinson). Lets move the whole island. Riiiigghhht. Which bit of the video Locke watched specifically mentioned the turny wheel? Or the conveinent ladder access? The video said to not put metal in the container. It didn’t say “put metal in to blow a hole in the wall to access a conveniant ladder system which will take you to a sub-zero(!) underground chamber with a turny wheel to move the whole island.”
Don’t get me wrong, anybody who wanted to access the pocket would probably do the opposite of instruction and put metal into the container and hope it did something explosive. But you’d have to be pretty fucking special to guess there was a ladder system to the wheel, and even if your luck got you that far you might be mistaken for thinking that the wheel did nothing more than grind arctic flour.
Not to mention that it doesn’t ever approach permafrost in the crust of the earth in the fucking tropics.
They’ll have to work hard to explain all this. Really Hard.
I’ll probably watch this until it eventually dies on its big fat flabby arse and turns most of the cast into b-movie “stars”, but I’m not impressed.
Filed by Kieran at June 2nd, 2008 under Blog, Complaint!, TV