http://www.crapholeisland.com Writing About Lost Spoilers The Other Talk About Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's a bit that I enjoyed from season one, and though I'm sure some linguistics major could give me numbers to prove that I'm pointing to a statistically probable occurrence I'll mention it anyway: Whenever the castaways talked about themselves with one another they referred to themselves as "The Others" the ... http://www.crapholeisland.com/lost/rooting-for-the-bad-guys-49 ... And one big heaping piece of filler episode. First a word about the filler: Further Instructions. What's missing from the title is what viewers did for one hour: wait. As in the phrase "Await further instructions," and boy did we ever. Nothing happened in the Locke centric episode. We didn't learn much ... http://www.crapholeisland.com/lost/a-tale-of-two-decent-episodes-48 In an earlier post I said that dream sequences are a writer's crutch. They can mean everything and nothing all at once. Weird for its own sake is the realm of the art school film. Thankfully, the dream sequences in ? were very effective. For one thing, they were literal. No ... http://www.crapholeisland.com/lost/question-mark-solves-my-problem-47 Sorry if I'm not thoroughly thrilled by the prospect of spending the next three months hunting for clues, making phone calls, and guessing passwords at phony websites. Call me a party pooper, but that's not my idea of a good time. I will admit that I enjoyed listening to I Love ... http://www.crapholeisland.com/lost/meta-gaming-makes-me-meta-bored-46 As pointed out by sister site Talk Stink, the first chapter of Bad Twin, the Lost tie-in novel that Sawyer will never finish reading thanks to Jack, is free on the iTunes Music Store: http://www.crapholeisland.com/lost/first-chapter-of-bad-twin-is-free-on-itunes-music-store-45