The serial tv show is a tricky sell to me. If you aren’t in on the ground floor then you’re playing catch up. Quite franky, who the hell wants to do that?
So many shows that are serialized have gone by the wayside for me. Naturally number one on the serialized tv show list (at least these days) is Lost and naturally I don’t watch it.
My brother Joey swears by the show, but having missed that first season back in 2004 I was not interested and I was okay with that. Best dramatic show ever? If you say so. Now leave me alone so I can see the latest Prison Break.
All that has changed however. And all because my step father got lymphoma.
A few months back my step father Luis was diagnosed with lymphoma and he started radiation treatment (he’s going to be fine, thankfully). This was naturally very stressful for my mother who worries about everything under the sun as it is. So my brother Joey sent her for her birthday season one of Lost. “It will take your mind off things,” he said. He was right.
The next time I visited my mother she had just finished season one. And eager to talk about. How exciting it was. How different it was. The enthusiasm she had was not something I’d expect coming from my mother. But it was there and it was undeniable. So that weekend I got her season two. The reaction she had when I gave it her was priceless. It was as though I had giver her a gold bar.
So when I left my mother’s that weekend she had made sure that I took season one home with me. She insisted I watch it, Okay, sure. I mean, I knew it was good but you know…
Getting home putting the DVDs in and sitting down with Jessica to watchLost I would not have guessed that only a few weeks later I’d be starting season three (my mother is currently working her way through season four).
Yes Lost IS all it’s cracked up to be. Tremendous writing, great acting, and exciting fun stuff. A truly great show. Me and Jessica breezed through season one in a week. Season two in a week and a half.
Now I’m onto season three and here comes the dilemma. I realize that the end of Lost DVDs is coming up. Soon enough I’ll be caught up and then it will still be until fall before that final season starts.
Starting season three tonight me and Jessica watched three episodes in what seemed like 30 minutes time. It just flew by. So now I realize that I have to slow it down. Make it last. Cut it down to maybe…two episodes a night? It’s rough because I’m so far behind that the things that are going on with the show are completely irrelevent right now. Jessica has tried to bring it up on the show as a topic but honestly, talking about a five year old cliffhanger seems just a wee bit lame.
So I shall suck it up and pace it out because that season opener is just around the corner. And I can’t wait.
Unfortunately you’ll have to wait a bit longer than this fall for the final season: Season 6 starts Feb. 2010!
Ed, I think you have just ruined my night.
Oh well, something new to complain about on air.
thats gotta be one of the many strange roundabout ways I’ve heard people start watching Lost.
But it’s true, you’re going way too fast on the dvds. Maybe not finish out S3 until end of August. Then go really slow on S4 during the fall, which was an aborted season cause of the strike, it had maybe only 13 episodes. You need to space that season out a LOT.(tell mom) Maybe only 2 shows a week
The trick (and the fun part) is to barrel through Season5 ALL in one month and during the holiday season. Those dvds dont come out till 12/15, about a month before the season premiere.
I’d enjoy some Lost talk during the show. Its fun to listen to how people first experienced the series and all the whacky theories/expectations they had. And the questions you have are still the same ones most of us have, cause they never tell you anything about whats going on, and they constantly tell you they dont tell you anything.
The dvd audience gets total gratification watching the show, while the original fool viewers like me had to sit through ridiculous hiatuses.But also I’ve noticed that dvd audiences have not been able to develop that patience that original watchers have, because theyve been almost spoiled by being able to watch shows back to back to back.