Lost on ABC. I’m Lost - but who isn’t?

Lost on ABC. I’m Lost - but who isn’t? by Mike Liebner

The 2 hour season finale of Lost was crammed full of… something.

OK, despite Lost on ABC making us ask more questions than it gives answers to - I must say I have been pretty enthralled this season.

But now it’s all gone away as the 2 hour season finale came and went like a dynamo.

At first - I must admit - I simply deleted the show from Tivo - even though I was confused at the ending. The season finale was just too jumbled and covered too much.

I was confused and instead of thinking about it - I just deleted it and moved on. I was disappointed.

But the next day I started thinking about what happened. I tried to remember who died and who may not have died and why they died and why they ended on the flash forward of Jack and Kate - apparently rescued and in a future tiome and place - not together. (more…)

The Last “Lost” According to King

The Last “Lost” According to King by Roxanne McDonald

Best-selling horror author, Stephen King, tells how he would end Lost; and announcers report the moving of the show to avoid being overshadowed by “American Idol”.

Word around the cyber-cooler is that despite its great following, “Lost” will move (for the third time in its short life) from its Fall 2006 time-slot to 10 p.m. (starting in its new season on January 7, 2007), to avoid being [inevitably] upstaged by the returning hit show, “American Idol;” that the name game is not accidental—that, according to writer Doc Jenson of Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com, certain character monikers are “encoded with hidden meanings;” and…that Stephen the KING of horror which sometimes borders on SF had offered his ideas for ending the popular series this season….

The closest connection I have to “Lost” is watching Jorge Garcia (aka Hugo Reyes) on “Celebrity Poker Showdown.” It’s not that I don’t like good horror, or good mystery, or good lost-on-island-with-Selfs-and-Others dramas, but I just have so many other shows in my twenty-hour-a-day TV-watching repertoire that the show is not on my itinerary.

Yet.

One of my geeky friends, however, adores the show enough that he has put the season’s DVD on his Christmas wish list, and next I know, I will be hooked on it along with him.

In the meantime, I do still read and watch with great interest Stephen King’s novels, series, stories, movies, and shows. (I especially like looking for his cameo appearance in his movies…as he does what Hitchcock did in every single Hitchcock thriller—shows up as the driver, the bystander, etc..). So I was intrigued by the Tailsection.com header that revealed King was conversing with readers, fans, and “Lost” followers, and was asked how he would end the Fall season. The illustrious author responded with how he would continue the pov of Jack, flashback to the airport, have Jack “taken away” and pumped for info, hooked up to a machine, and/or fed drugs…and make the finale an exposure of Jack’s having hallucinated the whole series—in a kind of/sort of deus ex machina closing….

The last episode has played through, so how related are the writers’ visions to King’s?

Not that I care…though now that I am looking into the show’s premise, the cast of characters, and seeing that hunky Rodrigo Santoro (Paolo) in a still…hmmm, I might have to reschedule for “Lost”, especially since it will in no way be in competition with “American Idol,” now.
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Daybreak - streaming free on the ABC Web Site!

Daybreak Is One Day I can See Over and Over Again

by Mike Liebner

I must admit I am still miffed at why ABC has shut down Lost for a few months and replaced it’s time slot with Daybreak starring Taye Diggs.

Lost is perhaps my favorite tv show and it seems that it had only just begun and boom – they take it off the air.

Well, since we all watch our tv shows on Tivo now (do you?) the time a series airs should have little if any impact on whether we will watch it or not. The determining factor is if we find out about a show in time to start watching it from the beginning. This is especially important for series that have continue story lines as it is much harder to jump in mid season to a show that already has a history behind it.

Daybreak has been pimped since the beginning of the Fall tv season and I must admit from the moment I had seen the commercials/trailers I knew I wanted to see this show. Since Tivo is generally only 14 days forward with schedules I only made a mental note of the show.

When Lost concluded with it’s Fall Finale (man that is so stupid – a Fall finale – give me a break) and the spot ran for Daybreak I went into Tivo and set it to record the debut episode.

Generally I will watch a show before adding a season pass to record all of it’s episodes. If the show sucks I simply do not watch it again. Sometimes I’ll give a show a second shot and try an additional episode (like Men In Trees which I ended up removing from the Tivo season pass).

Well, I watched the premiere episode of Daybreak and I was blown away! It handled all the possible plot problems and showed me how it was a viable concept that could sustain our interest week after week. (more…)