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Re-Lost: Watching Season One Again

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

This happens from time to time. Someone I know hasn’t seen a handful of episodes from season one of Lost and we head over to their house for a DVD marathon.
Strangely enough we ended up watching episodes that were rerun this past month. The Moth, House of the Rising Sun, and Confidence Man were the [...]

About Craphole Island’s Writer

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

The way I write isn’t too different from most people who write about Lost. I never missed an episode during season one, but season two finds me in a night shift on Wednesday night.
This puts me in a bind, not unlike the bind in which Ryan and Jen of The Transmission found themselves. I love [...]

Lost’s Season Two Tagline Sells Genre Shift

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

“Eveything happens for a reason.”

Lost often touches upon the realm of the pseudo-sciences. Mysticism is a big part of the Lost canon. Initially it looked as though Lost and The X-Files were similar in vein. Both shows offered a world that appeared normal on the surface, where any event was still explainable albeit with fringe [...]

Hurley’s Numbers Repeated This Week

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Someone asked me why there’s a first season episode being rerun this week. We can all agree that Lost’s plot is convoluted and accomplishes, successfully or not, more plot twists that what most television series do in their entire run.
This week’s rerun from season one is “Numbers”.
Every time you see a rerun it’s a reminder [...]

Kate’s Problem Is Sympathy, Not Empathy

Friday, January 20th, 2006

If Jack is a good person who sees the error in his ways and goes emo with guilt, then Kate is his shadow. Kate’s problem isn’t our problem, for the majority of us anyway. Lost’s Neilsen ratings for female viewers 18-35 who are locked up in the federal penitentiary system aren’t measured so perhaps we’ll [...]