Lost inside…Lost?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
My blog has been sadly neglected for almost two months! It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. Although I can’t say I’ve not been busy with reading, cleaning, working…and watching Lost. Yep, that’s right, Chris drug me, kicking and screaming, to the Other Side.
When the first DVD of the first season of Lost came in the mail, I had zero interest. Chris asked politely if I would like to join him in watching it and I declined with a distinct, “Oh, no thank you,” insert chuckle, “you go right on ahead and watch it without me!”
Turns out, the chuckle was on me. You see, my tune changed drastically when I finally did give it a chance later that weekend. I was immediately hooked. Addicted. Obsessed. Fanatical about. Fixated on. I couldn’t believe that this amazing show had been on TV all this time and I had been MISSING OUT! Why didn’t anyone tell me? Why was I so quick to write off this…this masterpiece, without even giving it a chance first!? How had I gone this long without Lost in my life?!?
All I can say is, we blew through the first three seasons on DVD in a matter of weeks. There were a few incidences where we couldn’t even wait two days for the next one to come in the mail, and we ended up making a late night drive to Blockbuster to exchange for the next disc in order to put our frantic minds to rest by finding out what happened next.
What amazes me most about this show is the attachment I have to the characters. Last night, as we watched Charlie drown himself in order to save Desmond and, quite possibly in doing so, the rest of the gang, I felt a heart-wrenching sadness buffered with swelling pride as if he were a real, true friend of mine. Then there is Locke, who’s true-to-life humanoid complexity always keeps me guessing as to how I really feel about him.
Mostly, I love how this show alternates between all mediums of film and television; deftly weaving together aspects of drama, suspense, sci-fi, romance, horror, and comedy in a way that you don’t even see coming. I can’t wait to see what season four has up its sleeve!
Photo Credit: Lost 3rd Season by Rafa82. Some rights reserved.