Rant: LOST??

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

That's Parcells, Annie.......Buck

That's what I said!



AnnieLee

[Silver Creek Slim]

That's Parcells, Annie.......Buck

That's what I said!



AnnieLee

Buck,
Ya forgot to quote her. 

Slim

[jiminy criquet]

OK, I'll chime in.  I happened to be flipping thru the network channels when nothing else was on satellite, (I rarely watch network TV anymore) and stumbled on the 'pilot' episode of 'LOST'.  The show begins ...just as everyone starts waking up from the impact of their jetliner crashing on a 'deserted' island.  Very realistic looking...including the scene when a dazed survivor gets sucked into the still running huge jet engine laying on the beach.  Ouch.

Anyways, there be some type of 'monsters' on the island (still unseen at this point in the show) ...dinosaurs? that keep eating the survivors, combined with all sorts of other plot twists dealing with the mysterious island and survivor interpersonal relationships.
The jetliner, on a flight from Australia to the States, had diverted 1000 miles around a huge storm prior to the crash, so the survivors are way off of the flight plan and out of the search zone.  This little tidbit of information was revealed to a few of the survivors who found a piece of the cockpit lying in the jungle a few days after the crash (with the still alive pilot stuck upside down in his seat)...right before he got snached out of the cockpit and eaten 'Jurrasic Park' style by an unseen beastie.  His tattered remains were found a few minutes later way up in a tree by the shocked survivors who had just been speaking with him as they tried to free him from his seat.

Cool show.  That is if they start telling (& showing) more of what is going on with the 'monsters' and other mysteries of the island.  If they don't, I'll be turning the channel.  (It's on Wed nights at 9pm on ABC.)

Check out the season 1 pilot episode if you get a chance, it's a doozy.  And I don't think you'll soon forget it (or fly in a plane).

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

My "suspension of disbelief" ended when you said the engines were running some time after the crash, Jiminy. Then there's the Jurassic park..... woah. Wait a sec....

< Starts laughing>

In the 70's there was a Saturday morning TV show that had real actors mixed with very cheesy special effects. It had people on an island who were trying to survive among man-eating dinosaurs. The show was called "Land of the Lost."

Good grief, LOST is a remake of a cheesy Saturday morning show that most kids I knew thought was awful!!

Now *that's* funny!



AnnieLee

[Stoney Pete]

What are the Emmy's  

[Trapdoor Billy]

I watch network TV when the 'Skins are playing.

AnnieLee

'Lost' and ''Skins playin'' just seems to go together.

What a thing for a Virginian to say.  Why I can remember instead of Sunday football it was called Redskins Football.

[Arcey]

That comes from a long suffering 'Skins fan, cousin.

I'm still onna high right now.  To beat Dallas, in their house, on a Monday night.  Priceless!

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[jiminy criquet]

Good grief, LOST is a remake of a cheesy Saturday morning show that most kids I knew thought was awful!!

That would be akin to saying 'Jurrasic Park' was a "remake of a cheesy Saturday morning show".  It wasn't, and 'LOST' isn't.  As for the 'monsters'...who knows what they are?  I sure don't, as they haven't been seen yet....although 'bears' were mentioned.  (But if they're bears, they're mighty big ones, because they shake the ground when they walk.)

And planes don't always smash to little bits when they crash, either.  Although they haven't shown the actual crash yet (just the immediate aftermath) the plane must have either come in on a 'hard landing' and broken into large pieces, or broke into pieces in the air.  Many died, but some didn't.  Not all sections of the plane have been found.

Anyways, I'm no fan of network TV, but that particular episode was worthy of whatever award they gave it.

(By the way, if you missed the pilot show, you'll likely be 'LOST' trying to figure out the other episodes.  hehehehehe )

[Micheal Fortune]

Well just a guess, Deadwood didn't fair so well cause:

1.  It's only on HBO, you have to pay to get it.  Most people don't pay to get it so less people watch it.

2.  It's certainly not a show you can watch with your kids or even talk about much around the office cooler.
     (Hey that was great last night when the Dr. was "helping" they guy pass that kidney stone")

3.  It's a pretty crappy show, and if you think "crappy" is harsh language, then you haven't seen Deadwood.

I haven't seen Lost, or the Emmy's and see no reason to watch Deadwood again, I already know all those words and don't find them entertaining.

Now a really good series which just got canceled was on Showtime,,, Dead Like Me, now that was a funny show.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

No relationship to it's namesake?

Hmmm..

Air Traffic Control sent the jetliner into the path of a huge storm. ATC out of Australia must not have access to radar or any weather satellites.  Then when the pilot saw the storm, he and the co-pilot did not inform ATC that they were diverging from their flight path, nor did they follow standard operating procedures and notify folks across the radio frequencies that they were diverging. Then the plane crashes into big pieces and the jets somehow manage to keep running without the power lines from the fuselage and cockpit, and without the fuel lines! And the piece from the cockpit, gee, did they somehow manage to read the flight recorder without power and without the player? But no one can find them because the aircraft did not have any kind of transponders or GPS systems onboard.

Uh huh.

Sounds more and more like its namesake to me: Hokey.

At least Jurrasic Park had good technical consultants behind it and those folks weren't Lost. This show sounds like it hired the tech consultants from... Land of the Lost!

Folks may not like Deadwood and its language, but I haven't seen any valid criticism about the accuracy of the time portrayed.

I was hooked on Deadwood from the second episode. I would not have been able to make it through the pilot of LOST without rolling my eyes in incredulity and changing the channel.

AnnieLee

[Singing Bear]

Well, JP was filmed here and it was good.  Lost is filmed here and that's good.  We gotta fight tooth and nail to keep them filiming here every year.  We like the fact that they provide jobs and lot of revenue for the state.  Lost won an Emmy for their special effects person who happens to be native Hawaiian, which is good for the native Hawaiians.  The cast of Lost just hosted a fund raiser for the flood victims in LA.  Having said all that, I've only seen maybe one episode and not all the way through.     I found it just too........drama mamaish?  Well, if there's a monster lets just see it start eating people and such.   Maybe I'll start watching it more often.    Can't comment on Deadwood.  Don't have HBO and probably never will. 

Btw, they film the beach scenes of Lost no more than 20 to 30 feet from the main road that "circles" the island.   They have all the fuselage and wing props sitting right off the road on the sand.  First time I saw it I thought some low life dumped his accumulated abandoned vehicles and expired appliances on the beach again.