Posted by: parallelsidewalk | February 1, 2008

To All You Geeks Who Watch Lost

Why not just take a large amount of peyote and watch Gilligan’s Island?

Seriously, I watched the show for an episode and a half or so, and have had multiple other episodes described to me and I can’t get the hype at all. It’s like a show written by ADD-afflicted 5th graders who are making shit up as they go along. “So then a dinosaur shows up and eats someone and they find a polar bear and there’s a bunch of caves made by Chinese people on the island, and ohmygod then they fight other people.”

Dead Like Me gets canceled two seasons in, while this, Rock of Love, and Scrubs have legions of fans? You people sicken me.

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Haha! I’ve never seen any part of Lost but your synopsis sounds about right from what I know of it.

Tell us about some good TV. :-)

By: Leena on February 1, 2008
at 6:18 pm

Couldn’t agree more. I watched one episode of “Lost,” and thought, “this is the stupidest thing since the X files.”

“Scrubs” is another mystery to me. I watched one episode, and it was the weirdest thing I have ever seen on tv. I mean it obviously wasn’t serious, yet it didn’t seem like it was supposed to be humor either.

I gave up watching tv.

By: Elizabeth on February 1, 2008
at 6:28 pm

Leena
I don’t have a TV so I basically watch everything after the fact on DVD. The final season of The Wire is on now, though, and I almost wish I had a TV for that, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Previous to that, by some of the same people, were the miniseries The Corner about the ghetto drug scene and Homicide: Life On The Streets, the best cop show of all time. Both were filmed and set in Baltimore. Dead Like Me was great while it was around, a show about an 18 year old girl who dies and has to work as a grim reaper afterwards. A lot of Muslims hated Sleeper Cell, but I actually really dug it, it was well-paced and the people making out were halfway knowledgeable about Muslims. Futurama is great sometimes and lukewarm at others. I like what I’ve seen of Big Love, a show about Mormon Polygamists, but am too busy to really get into it. And I love love love the Boondocks, which, incidentally, can be watched for free on Youtube.

Liz
Yeah, Scrubs is like…Totally forced attempted whimsy. Plus I hate Zach Braff.

By: parallelsidewalk on February 1, 2008
at 7:07 pm

I feel so old when people talk about pop culture now, I never know what these things are. I watch, like, max 2 tv shows at any one given time.

By: Nadia on February 1, 2008
at 7:09 pm

I never saw Sleeper Cell either, I think the guy that did west beirut worked on it? Can I still not hate him?

Boondocks I loved but I never remember when it’s on so I’ve seen like 5 eps ever by chance.

By: Nadia on February 1, 2008
at 7:14 pm

I kind of agree with you about Lost. I used to moderately follow it, but became increasingly annoyed with what I felt was the show’s inability to move forward with a coherent plot. I felt it tried to be mysterious for the sake of it, and never got around to following it with much dedication.
I disagree about scrubs. It can get annoying at times, but it’s the kind of show that in my opinion offers a generally effective balance of drama and comedy.
And Boondocks rocks. Although I don’t really follow any of these shows regularly. I mostly tend to use TV to watch soccer.

By: Sever on February 1, 2008
at 11:49 pm

Nadia
I never saw West Beirut so I can’t speak to that, but Sleeper Cell (well, at least Season One) was good. It referenced a lot of real world stuff that the average person would very likely be unaware of; for example, one character was very clearly supposed to be Aqil Collins, down to a missing leg and a childhood in gangs, and being a jihadi who refused to attack civilians. And one visiting scholar from Yemen was rehabilitating terrorists, which is an actual government-funded movement there. There were only a couple of Arab characters, and both escaped stereotyping, and while the show didn’t excuse terrorism or paint it in an okay light, it did show that the US government stirs up a lot of hornets’ nests and west vs. Islam isn’t a monolithic struggle of good and evil.

Season Two was unnecessary and I didn’t like it nearly as much; it wasn’t originally planned in, the first season was a self-contained series that did well, so they made more, which was a really bad move in my estimation and lost a lot of what made Season One fairly gripping. The writing and pacing were confused, there were no cool sideline stories, and characterization was flat and even silly. The most hardcore fundie in the new cell is a closet homosexual, which is an unforgivable cliche. So I’d just watch Season One, which as I said is a self-contained story.

Sever
I like watching Soccer occasionally but it’s too much of a bitch to get on America TV here; even during World Cup, I have to go to friends’ houses or a Mexican bar to watch it. Being in one such establishment the year before last, watching Mexico get scored on while 20 angry guys drinking Sangria yelled at the TV in Spanish, made me glad for once that I’m not Argentinian.

By: parallelsidewalk on February 2, 2008
at 3:45 pm

West Beirut is one of the best movies ever. Thanks for that, I’ll download it eventually, about 6 years after everyone else has seen it, like everything else I watch.

By: Nadia on February 2, 2008
at 7:55 pm

I honestly could not get through the first episode of Lost. I thought there must be something wrong with me since I just dont get what everyone is frothing-at-the-mouth excited about with this show. Glad to see I’m not alone on this!

I love The Wire. If I feel like I’ve made good studying progress, I rent the DVD and watch an episode. I just finished Season 1 and I’m hooked. Excellent, excellent show. I hope it keeps going. Plus it helps in remembering the rules for criminal procedure. More than once I’ve found myself screaming about violations of 6th Amendment right to counsel or warrantless searches of automobiles. Good times.

By: Muse on February 2, 2008
at 10:10 pm

Ah I just noticed you said this is the final season of The Wire…too bad. Well at least I have 3 more seasons to rent before I’m done with it. Woohoo. I think Netflix is supposed to deliver the next disc today, so I better be productive.

By: Muse on February 2, 2008
at 10:12 pm

I actually liked the first season of Lost quite a bit…we were about 2 seasons behind on everything in Egypt, and coming back here I’ve been unable to get into season 4. Their funky parallel timeline structure is getting a little out of hand.

By: Willow on February 3, 2008
at 2:19 am

AA- Dave,

Stop hating on Scrubs bro. You’re just upset that you don’t get their constant references to the 80’s. Only old timers like me appreciate such genius. :-)

By: brnaeem on February 3, 2008
at 6:10 am

Salaam Alaikum,

Lost is just nonsense, but then I happily admit to watching and loving NCIS, so I cannot criticise. I think we’ll start getting The Wire out on DVD from the start.

I love Prision Break too. T-Bag is such a memorable villian.

By: safiya on February 3, 2008
at 10:17 pm

Blasphemy!

“Lost” is one of the few things in the world that has continuously lived up to my expectations.

Shirtless hot guys don’t hurt either.

By: Natalia Antonova on February 4, 2008
at 1:22 pm

A Gawker poll just rated “Lost” the most over-rated SF show:

“The rabbit hole just leads to another rabbit hole, and then another… and there’s never a rabbit.”

Dave, my blog misses your comments!

By: Elizabeth on February 6, 2008
at 7:09 pm

Muse
I didn’t even consider that, interesting.

naeem
You wrong!

Safiya
Prison Break is really popular in China, my fiance watches it. I could never take a guy who called himself T-bag seriously though.

Natalia
Look, if you wanna watch scantily clad people make fools of themselves on an island, that’s why Survivor exists :-p

Liz
My bad, thought you were still on break. I’ll be by.

By: parallelsidewalk on February 6, 2008
at 8:07 pm

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