My youngest son finds himself with a bit of spare time in between super-busy times, so he’s catching up on DVD’s of LOST, a mystery/supernatural/sci-fi/action TV series that I missed entirely when it came out. It’s incredibly good and now MrsDoF and I are both hooked on it.
When I first saw a trailer for LOST, I had it confused with Surivivor, which looked utterly craptacular, so I wound up ignoring both of them. That worked out great, because now I’m watching LOST commercial-free, and when every damn episode ends with a cliffhanger, we just click “Next” and watch it. Also, we get the DVD captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing, which are better than the regular closed-caption on broadcast TV.
People who say there’s nothing good on TV anymore forget that as a general rule, 90% of everything is crap and always has been. There’s nothing magical about the TV shows of our youth – for every Avengers there were a dozen Hawaii Five-Oh.
We think Eureka is lots of fun.
So far, Locke is my favorite character by far. As soon as I get through 24 season 1, I’m turning my attention to Lost Season 2.
I started to watch it and it was really good. Once things got really busy with university, I had to skip it though (I think I had a class that night during winter session and that made it impossible).
I refuse as much as possible to get addicted to TV shows, but South Park, Daily Show, and Colbert Report have me.
As for Lost, I had a similar impression to DOF from ads, and just never got into it.
I think that TV in the past several years has reached a higher level than in its history prior to that point. Several dramas have are smart, long-term stories with great acting and writing. The first seasons of Lost and Heroes are practically one long episode from beginning to end, and much the same could be said about the first 30 or so episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
The entire series of the Sopranos was brilliantly acted and written—it’s almost unbelievable that a show with that much symbolism and depth of substance could also be a commercial success. If any show does, I think that The Sopranos shows that Americans are not all alliterate morons who cannot understand complexity in pieces of literature and film. If you haven’t already watched it, I highly recommend it.
I started with the series on Netflix, but I’m afraid the writers did their job too well. Some of the characters tick me off so much that I probably won’t finish watching…
You win a few, you lose a few.