I don't want to come across as a Lost apologist. I describe this show to my friends by telling them Lost is the TV show equivalent of a really awesome girlfriend who got way less cool, so I was going to leave her but then she got diagnosed with terminal cancer, so now leaving her seems mean, because of the dying of terminal cancer thing.
Like, I stuck around for awhile thinking Lost would get good again, and by the time I realized it was never going to be the show I fell in love with, they'd announced the end date, so I was like "Well it's going to be all over soon, so I probably shouldn't just walk away now."
Basically i am just waiting for Lost to die so I can get on with my life.
so here's the thing. I know it's like Gabe's Blog so we all play by Gabe's Rules... but seriously last night's episode of Lost was spectacular. Furthermore, this show never promised that it was going to give us all the answers in the first half of the last season. Honestly, that would be bad storytelling. What they seem to be doing is setting us up with some interesting information that will (hopefully) make more sense toward the latter half of the final season, because that would be good storytelling.
You know, like good storytelling where the fan favorite and arguably most sympathetic character on the show has been turned into a remorseless villain. Or good storytelling where the remorseless villain has been turned into arguably the most sympathetic character on the show.
I'm not saying Lost is not a ridiculous series full of weird plot gaps and random nonsensical time travel, but I am saying that this has been a show about an island with polar bears and black stallions and dead people running around on it from day one. At what point did any of us expect it to become the Citizen Kane of television?
From the website: Crystal Swing consists of Mary Murray-Burke and her son and daughter, Derek and Dervla Burke. The band provides an excellent variety of music at affordable rates for weddings, parties, functions or any social event. (italics mine)
Dear Gabe - Please tell me we can get Crystal Swing to play the next Videogum Pizza Party.
I really hope the end of the series is now just Charlie telling the gang a drunk story at the Paddy's Pub. That would basically explain why this show is disjointed and r-worded.
Does anyone else's player have a link to an audio story with the headline: McDonald's Remakes Byrd-Jordan Ad With New Stars (bold and italics mine, for effect)?
I don't mean to go all jock up in this videogum/npr nerd party, but it's Larry Bird, NPR.
Wedgies all around.
SOS!! PLEASE HELP!!
If you help me, I will give you lots of money. I am totally rich from winning the lottery, but none of that matters unless you help me! You see, I was in Australia, and I got on this airplane. Pretty normal right? Wrong. The plan crashed on this island, and for awhile everyone was just freaking out and building huts and hunting for food, but doing what you would basically consider normal castaway type stuff. But then, dude, things got totally weird. First of all, people started dying like whoa. So many people have died. Even if we ever do get off this island, I am pretty sure everyone will have severe PTSD.
You see, there were these other people on the island, and we thought they were bad, but it turned out they were just the people from the back half of the plane (implausible, I know, but bear with me), but then it turned out there were OTHER others, but it was just this one crazy french lady with a gun. But then it turned out there were other OTHER others, and they were totally batshit insane out for blood. Also, there is a hatch, and some numbers we have to push to keep the world from ending (the same numbers i used to win the lottery, coincidentally), and this weird crazy black smoke monster.
So anyway, one time we didn't push the button and there was this bright flash and then a bunch of stuff that doesn't really matter happened, but then we made contact with some people off the island and we were totally going to be saved, but some people on the island were like "we don't want to be saved," but Jack was all like "WE ARE GETTING OFF THIS ISLAND" so six of us actually got off the island, but then later we had to go back to the island, which is basically where the time travel comes in.
Yeah, time travel. I know it sounds completely retarded and takes my story to a whole new level of implausibility and ridiculousness. At this point you are probably just hoping my story just ends soon so you don't have two listen to it anymore. Either way, we wound up back in the 1970s, which is also where some of the other people from our original plane crash wound up (don't ask me, dude, I don't have a Ph.D in Superfake Sciences, either). And there were some gun fights and some other stuff happened and we detonated a bomb in the 70s and now I have no idea what's going on.
Also, a four-toed statue, polar bears, a kid with special powers and I see dead people.
Send help ASAP,
Hugo.
Matchstick National Bangkok Rider Con Men Leaving Snake Rock City, Bringing Out 8mm in Sixty Seconds: Lord of World Trade Weather Adaptation (starring Nic Cage)
2day, I v-chatted my g-ma about my food industry dinner party, then did some SEXTing with a married congressman in the back of his limousine (at my bestie's behest, obvi). MLIGG
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