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10 Reason why Lost sucks my nutsack on thursday
1. Nothing ever really happens. Oh, you think something is going to happen. The previews show that something is going to happen. Sadly though, in the end nothing really happens. It?s amazing that you can watch a whole season of the show and end up pretty much where you started. Yep, still on the island. Nope, still don?t know what all the crazy stuff happening is about? Throw us a bone people.
2. The shaky camera work. Oh this is a biggie. We are all well aware of this cheap trick used to intensify the drama of a scene, or worse yet, to insert a false sense of drama where the plot is lacking. Hold the camera steady for the love of Pete. We will decide if the scene is intense enough and if not we can shake our heads back and forth rapidly. There are enough Bruckheimer shows in the world already.
3. Kind of the opposite of the last reason, but equally annoying: the staring factor. By my rough estimates, a good 17 minutes of each episode is devoted to someone staring at someone else, or some object. The casual viewer may miss this one, but look for it. People just don?t stare at each other that much in real life. I think for one of the future blog entries I will actually take a stopwatch and record the ?net staring time? for an episode.
4. 3 episodes then reruns for a month. What?s up with that? Yes, it?s filmed in Hawaii and I?m sure a lot goes into each show, but film the whole season then air it. Other shows are able to do that, why not Lost?
5. The flashbacks. They don?t add a whole lot for one thing, and not everyone could have killed someone before they got to the island. I mean how many people?s flashbacks are about them killing a person or persons? I think the fat dude is the only one who didn?t. Oh wait, his ?curse? did kill a few people if I recall.
6. New characters. How many new people can they introduce to the show that is set on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere? You wouldn?t think there would be so many people ending up there. You?ve got a whole community of ?others?, a French chick, a dude that was in the hatch, all the plane crash people, and now some balloon guy. This island has more people than your average Club Med.
7. The Dharma Initiative. This is so ridiculous; I?m at the point where I don?t even care what it?s really about. Between the guy in the movie and the clever marketing logo, it?s just a bit too over the top. I swear they ripped off this shadow organization from an old episode of Get Smart. If they break out a Dharma Project cone of silence I will throw a shoe through my TV.
8. They find a steel and concrete fortified bunker/hatch (actually many of these) but yet they all still choose to live happily in the open on the beach, while man eating creatures and scary smoke beings roam the island. Don?t you think seeing a man ripped to shreds by a huge monster would make you want to have a metal door between you and the outside world while you slept?
9. The original premise is flawed. If a plane breaks apart at that altitude, there would be no one left to be ?lost?. It should have been called ?Crashed? and been a one episode show.
10. Pressing the countdown button. Enough said.
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