Spaced in Lost
(Well, I'm very happy with that headline. I should work for The Sun.) It can't have escaped your notice that Channel 4 have begun screening Lost, a big budget, glossy, show about plane crash survivors on a mysterious island. Read The Observer Review, if you missed it, and kick yourself thoroughly.
(Incidentally, if reincarnation is true, I would happily die in order to be the fly on the wall at the network TV pitch meeting that features the wannabe producers of a show that is "...like Lost... but in Space.")
First episode suffered from all the usual First Episode problems - too many characters to introduce, too many subplots to set rolling, so that you felt it was clichéed and over-hyped. But I kept faith, because it's J J Abrams, creator of Alias, as preposterous an entertainment as you like, and Officially The Best Show On TV.
Lucky for me, E4 showed the first 3 episodes back to back the night after I got back from holiday, or I'd have missed it, dammit. When we were in France, there was much excitment when the first episodes aired. My brother-in-law called out, at dinner one night, "LOST!! Lost!" crying out that the video should be set (it already was). It reminded me, a little, of an old Perishers strip, in which all the kids jump up excitedly and shout, "The Monkees! The Monkees!" and run out of the room. The final frame showed them all, stopped, looking back at Marlon, who was following with a blank look on his face and a big bunch of bananas in his hand.
Talking of bananas, there's no indication as to what the people in Lost are going to be eating when the airline food runs out. They could have eaten the polar bear, for example, but didn't.
Anyway, I'm into it. There's a nice foccy (and possibly Bad Girl) heroine (except you know she's not), a too-good-to-be-true hero, and a Mysterious Man On The Beach Who Was In Alias. My favourite moment so far is when they picked up the repeating distress signal of the last plane to crash on the same island... all hands lost (or were they?) 16 years before...
J J Abrams! Fucking genius!
Anyway, get into it, before it's too late - or watch out for Channel 4's "all the episodes so far in one night" night.
(Incidentally, if reincarnation is true, I would happily die in order to be the fly on the wall at the network TV pitch meeting that features the wannabe producers of a show that is "...like Lost... but in Space.")
First episode suffered from all the usual First Episode problems - too many characters to introduce, too many subplots to set rolling, so that you felt it was clichéed and over-hyped. But I kept faith, because it's J J Abrams, creator of Alias, as preposterous an entertainment as you like, and Officially The Best Show On TV.
Lucky for me, E4 showed the first 3 episodes back to back the night after I got back from holiday, or I'd have missed it, dammit. When we were in France, there was much excitment when the first episodes aired. My brother-in-law called out, at dinner one night, "LOST!! Lost!" crying out that the video should be set (it already was). It reminded me, a little, of an old Perishers strip, in which all the kids jump up excitedly and shout, "The Monkees! The Monkees!" and run out of the room. The final frame showed them all, stopped, looking back at Marlon, who was following with a blank look on his face and a big bunch of bananas in his hand.
Talking of bananas, there's no indication as to what the people in Lost are going to be eating when the airline food runs out. They could have eaten the polar bear, for example, but didn't.
Anyway, I'm into it. There's a nice foccy (and possibly Bad Girl) heroine (except you know she's not), a too-good-to-be-true hero, and a Mysterious Man On The Beach Who Was In Alias. My favourite moment so far is when they picked up the repeating distress signal of the last plane to crash on the same island... all hands lost (or were they?) 16 years before...
J J Abrams! Fucking genius!
Anyway, get into it, before it's too late - or watch out for Channel 4's "all the episodes so far in one night" night.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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