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Monday, May 07, 2007

ABC details final three “Lost” seasons

This is dumb.

The Emmy-winning adventure series will run for 48 more episodes over three seasons. Each season will consist of 16 episodes, which will air uninterrupted.

I don’t mind the shortened seasons at all, but they added 48 rather arbitrarily and they did this just to get more ad dollars, which is the whole god-damned purpose to anything these days it seems. 108. That was the number. 120 episodes is meaningless. If you can’t wrap this story up from the current point in 36 more episodes you aren’t gonna do any better with an extra 12.

What a missed opportunity for some cool factor.

While the show’s ratings have softened this season—it is averaging 15.1 million viewers to date—it is the most recorded show on TV, gaining 18% more viewers through DVR viewing. It is also a popular draw for streaming replays on ABC.com, iTunes downloads and DVDs.

Wow, with those numbers, you could safely say that Lost gets 18 million a week...that’s better than the Neilsen ratings are showing. They really do need to revamp that system to take into account DVRs, downloads and so forth.

Posted by JimK at 11:13 AM on May 07, 2007
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Friday, May 04, 2007

Lost to end in two-ish years

Lots of buzz here. In summary, Lost will finish out somewhere around two seasons. I suspect - given the update at that link whish states that the exact number of episodes is “muddy” - that they will film 108 episodes. I mean, come on. That’s...that’s almost necessary. if they make more than 108 episodes I’m going to be really disappointed. Imagine the Lost boxed set. Episode 1 to Apisode 108 and the series ends. How perfect is that?

Anyway, they are also planning to run it from the mid-season to the end, like 24 so there’s no long break in the middle. Another good idea. They also want to move it back to 9 PM. I’d go right back to 8 PM the way it was in the beginning. That will give them the highest ratings.

Giving Lost a definitive ending will allow the writers to actually plan it out and reveal what we want in a regular, predictable-to-them fashion. I think that will remove this “We’re making it up as we go along” feeling the show has had since they decided to keep Ben as a regular. I’m in favor of this whole rumored set of changes. I think it will help a lot. ABC is supposed to make the announcement within a few days.

Posted by JimK at 11:20 PM on May 04, 2007
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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Lost is crashing

Last Wednesday, a CSI: NY re-run beat Lost. The fast overnight ratings showed Lost with a 7.6 and a 12 share. The CSI: NY re-run got 7.8/13.

If that doesn’t tell the story, I don’t know what does. This show needs to stop being a snore-fest. Someone needs to take J.J. Abrams off the show entirely if it’s contractually possible. He does this every damned time - he comes out of the gate with a great idea, he mucks around in season two, and then he utterly ruins it in season three. Then everyone milks it until season five so they can syndicate it.

I can only hope and pray that Heroes doesn’t fall apart after this season. So far they’ve done it exactly right. You know what else I am really liking lately? Jericho. Just enough answers to keep me happy and new questions all the time to keep me interested.

I cannot wait for this network season to be over and for it to be The Shield time. Vic Mackey could kick this season’s Jack Bauer right up the ass, and he’d eat The Others for breakfast.

Posted by JimK at 05:38 PM on March 10, 2007
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Lost returns. JimK yawns

Uhh...sure. It was on. I kind of felt like it was a chore to watch it. I feel like I have so much time in I have to watch it until we get some kind of answer.

Best moment: Sawyer referencing the wookie prisoner gag. Other than that? Whatever. Think about the first time Rousseau talked about The Others. Now look at where we are today.

What. The. Fuck?

Posted by JimK at 03:24 AM on February 08, 2007
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Lost is losing me

I agree with every word this guy wrote.

“Lost" has always been something of a con job, a three-card monte game where they let you glimpse the red queen—in this case, the island’s secrets—just often enough to keep playing. We complained that they didn’t show us what was in the hatch at the end of season one, so they took us inside in the opening minutes of season two, then spent the rest of the year drawing out the question of what the button really did.

But what at first felt like an ingenious long con—one that has spawned tie-in books and Web sites designed to give opaque clues to these unsolveable mysteries—has slowly revealed itself to be a series of short cons, and those become much easier to spot for all but the most gullible of marks.

If it wasn’t clear before that the writers were making up most of the series as they went along, last week’s death of Mr. Eko should have made that quite clear. So, let’s see: Season two was devoted to the mysteries of the hatch and the arrival of the passengers from the tail section, only now the hatch has blown up real good and the only tailie still breathing is the rarely-seen Bernard. And we watched last season why, exactly?

Read the rest...he’s spot on. The reason Lost is still watchable is the strength of the actors on the show.

Hat tip: Treacher.

Posted by JimK at 06:43 PM on November 08, 2006
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

The door map from Lost

Interesting last night...something finally happened! I grabbed images of the door map from various locations...feel free to speculate in the comments.

SPOILERS AFTER THE JUMP AND PROBABLY IN THE COMMENTS. YOU WERE WARNED!