thread: 2006-12-08 : Quick media notes
On 2006-12-11, Rich Stokes wrote:
I've found Lost to be incredibly annoying and gave up after the first series. It became apparent to me that:
The point of the show was the characters trying to figure out what was going on.
The show was popular enough to get a second, third and so on series.
Therefore if they ever actually tell you what's going on, the show ends and they don't get to do another series.
Therefore nothing ever really happens.
So I gave up towards the end of series one. When it became apparent that they'd stopped telling a story, and started making a TV show.
For my sins I actually watched a lot of the first series of Desperate Housewives and quite enjoyed that up until the point where it became apparent that there was not going to be any kind of proper resolution to the plots that were going on. Again, it stopped being a story and started being TV.
And then there's BSG, which is pretty cool but so bloody depressing! As I sat down to watch the last episode of series two I said to myself that unless that episode was either (a) at least partly positive, or (b) really damn interesting and clever I was going to give up on it. Then there was the "One Year Later" thing and I was sold on watching the third series. Series three was interesting, but it looks like it might have fallen back into the "Who's going to die this week?" format and frankly, if that keeps up I'm going to stop watching it.
I'm liking Heroes though. But the end of the series is going to make or break it. At the moment the plot is unfolding at just the right pace for me and the main thing is that it IS unfolding.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.
