Posts Tagged ‘lost’

Why I Won’t Quit Worrying and Love the Golden-Vagina Stream: The Anti-Science Argument of ABC’s LOST

Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized

Three days after the LOST finale, the smoke is beginning to clear. My own rage over the direction that the finale took us is starting to subside. While I could focus on the bits that made me most angry initially—the hackneyed, soft-focus reunions that weren’t true to some of the characters (Shannon and Sayid? Really?); [...]

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Read more | Comments (11) | May 26, 2010

Why LOST Sucks

Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized

I’ve watched LOST since the middle of the first season. That’s a hundred and eighteen hours of what I had thought were islandy goodness (okay, okay, I probably shouldn’t even bother trying to pretend to count season 2 and most of season 3 as “islandy goodness;” let’s call it 80 hours of islandy goodness). I [...]

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Read more | Comments (15) | May 12, 2010

Confession

Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized

After five years of watching LOST, I have a confession to make. I hate Jack Shepherd. (More inside; this entry contains spoilers for the sixth season of LOST.)

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Read more | Comments (6) | Feb 24, 2010

On Lost and Seriality

Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized

My post today will include some spoilers about last night’s Lost finale. I want to talk about continuity in television. It seems like it’s only recently that TV writers and producers have realized the full potential in television–that its serialized and continuing nature is best exploited not through stand alone episodes but, well, through serialized [...]

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Read more | Comments (1) | May 14, 2009