See It To Believe It
While watching the season finale of Lost last evening I realized why I love books - no commercials. During the last hour, there were points with only four-minute breaks between commercials. Come on now. That’s insane. I’m all for Hollywood making money and charging obscene amounts for advertising time. But, really. Four minutes of content at a time?
That’s not the only issue in the books versus TV debate. Books have the benefit of ending at some point. There tends to be a payoff within 300+ pages. Questions get answered. The plot makes some logical sense. Dead people stay dead - usually. Lost doesn’t really folllow any of these guidelines. Yet, I’m addicted. Stupid television…
For those who watched and are trying to figure out who is dead and referenced in the newspaper scrap Jack has clenched in his fist, I give you this. A guy from New York. Somebody Lantham, which probably means nothing. Again, no answers but it’s a hint.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:13 am
I havent watched all of the Lost episodes, so last night my girlfriend and I watched it and she filled me in.
It looks like to me that the present is going to be Hell for Jack (in the present and back off the island) as Ben predicted.
So who died - was it the little black boys dad? Or are you telling me there was not answer to that. From what I saw last nite, are all the bad guys from the Island gone? And what is the deal with John Lock? Was he a bad guy all along? How come he was going to shoot Jack?
May 24th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Ok, I clicked “this” - how in the world did you get that copy of the article?
Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was).
May 24th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Ok, I clicked “this” - how in the world did you get that copy of the article?
Do you have any answers who it might be? And I wonder if Kate was going back to Sawyer (he would be wondering where she was).
May 24th, 2007 at 10:05 am
ABC details ‘Lost’s’ final years - 48 more episodes over three seasons ending in 2009-10.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/07/television.lost.reut/index.html
I somehow missed this and it turns out that for once there is an end in sight. I’m feeling ambivalent about this, but I know that the show’s quality will be mantained by knowing what they’re working towards, instead of padding the show with filler episodes to stretch out the storyline indefinitely only to be cancelled without much notice to finish the show properly. I really hate that about television. They’ve cancelled so many beloved shows without giving them and their fans a proper finish.
So they have three years (16 episodes each year) to piece all the bits together to give us the whole picture of LOST.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:49 am
The commercials are why I love my DVR (digital video recorder–similar to Tivo). We wait until fifteen minutes or half an hour into the show to start watching, so that we can fast forward through all the commercials! It’s particularly nice to do with LOST, because they have the most frequent commercial breaks ever, and it just drives us nuts to watch it in real time.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Just to let you know I finished Lori Foster’s Simon Says - and it was wonderful. Thanks for sending it to me in the contest. I will be forwarding my review to you soon.
Lori really knows how to write a good story with fantastic characters.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:18 am
That’s not the only issue in the books versus TV debate. Books have the benefit of ending at some point. There tends to be a payoff within 300+ pages. Questions get answered. The plot makes some logical sense. Dead people stay dead - usually.
you’re right, usually true for books. Unless your name is Robert Jordan
Exhibit A: (from Wikipedia)
Jordan gave the working title of the 12th book as A Memory of Light. As one of the attendees told Dragonmount.com, Jordan also warned that the final volume of the saga “could be a 1500-page monster” because he has so many dangling plot threads to wrap up in a single volume. He maintains that A Memory of Light will remain one volume “whether it is 1500 pages long, Tor has to invent a new binding system, or it comes with its own library cart”.