by jphilo | Dec 13, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
The man of steel and I are so hopelessly behind the times, we didn’t finish watching the 2002–2010 TV series, Lost, until last weekend. (We viewed it on Netflix rather than doing the time travel thing to watch them in an alternate universe in real time.) The finale led to many thoughts, and here are my top three.
- Sawyer is the ultimate cowboy. Give the man a weapon and he can strut like a con man cowboy, island cowboy, sea-faring cowboy, airborne cowboy, policeman cowboy. And all without a horse.
- Hiram caught onto the eye thing long before me and correctly predicted what would happen at the very end.
- The Dharma Initiative was one of the biggest threads left dangling by the writers. Personally, I think the initiative’s purpose was to explain the launch the generic food packaging movement in the late 1970s (also known as Sawyer’s jumpsuit cowboy period) so as not to alarm the general public. How do you explain the Dharma Initiative?
by jphilo | Aug 27, 2012 | Daily Life
Hiram and I are hopelessly addicted to the TV series, Lost. Those of you in tune with popular culture realize we are also hopelessly behind the time, as that series ended in 2010. But thanks to the advent of digital television, which left us with one channel even though we installed a converter box, our location which doesn’t allow us to get cable, and a daughter in college, which left no money for satellite TV until last year, we haven’t watched much TV for the past several years.
Until Hiram’s convalescence after surgery this summer.
That momentous event forced the issue and we signed up for Netflix. That’s when we discovered Lost. It’s kind of like Gilligan’s Island meets Lost in Space meets Wild, Wild West meets soap opera. And now, like I said before, we’re hopelessly addicted to the silly show. So addicted we might need a twelve step program. Or at least a notebook to keep track of six years worth of plot lines, flashbacks, crises, cliff hangers, and deaths.
After all, Hiram’s convalescence is pretty much over.
He used to lay on the couch to watch Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Charlie and John and the rest of the gang uncover mysterious hatches, untangle the mystery of the Others, and munch on provisions dropped by helicopter from the mysterious Dharma Initiative powers-that-be. Now Hiram watches while doing a hopping/balance exercise prescribed by the PTs.
It’s pretty cool.
But not as cool as all those sweaty people running around the island, flashing back to their former lives, doing the time travel thing, and finding more new outfits to wear than could possibly be packed in a carry on bag. To think, we wouldn’t even know about them if Hiram hadn’t had back surgery.
But thanks to one ruptured disk, we’re now addicted to the silly show.
The doctor never once mentioned this as a side effect of surgery. Which proves there are some things modern medicine can’t predict or prevent. Even though it does a really good job with ruptured disks.
For which we are extremely grateful.
But we won’t be so grateful if someone spoils things by leaving a comment that spills the beans about how the series end. So if you want to leave a comment about the outcome of the series or some plot twist, please begin your missive with the words “spoiler alert.”
We’re hopelessly addicted to Lost, and we want to stay that way.
