Lost has been on hiatus since May 23, and I’m not really part of the ultra-geeky obsessed-with-Lost movement, so I hadn’t visited Lostpedia or any forums until just yesterday. I had forgotten all about the “Jack and Kate!” and “Jack and Sawyer!” groupies.
If you don’t watch it, Lost is an arc-show, meaning that the episodes lead into one another, and don’t stand on their own (you can’t jump in and start watching it), and a puzzle show, as in “WTF is going on?” For three seasons, the writers have been tossing puzzle pieces on the table. They are ending the show this season (they may have to run over partly into next season, with the writers’ strike), and they have a lot of questions to answer. A whole lot.
Please explain how a huggy-kissy “Jack and Kate!” scene (worse, episode) would answer those questions. If it wouldn’t, then it would be an annoying waste of film. Lost is not a romance, or a chick flick. If it were, we wouldn’t watch it. What is this fascination with turning everything into some syrupy huggy-kissy “Ooooo! They’re in love!” horse manure?
My theory: Too many teen magazines.
TheCalvinator says:
The only thing you are wrong about here is that they planned to end the show this season. They announced this year, that they would do 3 more seasons of 16 Episodes each. There has been no explanation of how the writers’ strike will affect that plan.
January 27, 2008, 2:19 pm