{"id":1954,"date":"2010-05-30T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T00:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2014-05-12T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:11:08","slug":"lost-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-jackface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Lost – So long and thanks for all the Jackface"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week (depending on which country you lived in) brought to a close the popular television series Lost<\/em>.\u00a0 I have a lot of fond memories of both the show and the countless hours we spent speculating on the assorted mysteries that it served up each week.<\/p>\n

Can you remember when you first watched the show?\u00a0 I was working for Orange Mobile at the time and on a lunch break at work I saw a preview clip for the show on the E! Entertainment show.\u00a0 The show’s concept was immediately appealing.\u00a0 It sounded like a serialised version of Lord of the Flies<\/em> populated with adults.\u00a0 I remember being so enamoured with the pilot episode which I downloaded and watched by myself that I immediately brought Jen into the room and rewatched it with her.\u00a0 Then I burnt a copy to disc and showed it to some colleagues at work.\u00a0 Then I burnt some more copies and gave one to Mike at Christmas that year.\u00a0 I was a Lost evangelist.<\/p>\n

I think upon reflection, that first season is also my favourite one.\u00a0 I really love that first scene where you see the planecrash on the beach, the first Locke-centric episode Walkabout<\/em>, the moment Hurley realises that Ethan wasn’t on the plane and just in general, your first introduction to the primary cast of Losties.\u00a0 At that point, the show wasn’t quite as stacked with red herrings and characters that didn’t really amount to anything.<\/p>\n

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Season One: Back in 2004 before we had iPhones, movies were in 2D and Australia still had the Ashes<\/p><\/div>\n

By the end of that first season, I remember Lost was also at its peak in terms of cultural relevance.\u00a0 Everyone in the office and all of my friends watched that show.\u00a0 We all speculated on polar bears and The Others.\u00a0 On important issues like who was more badass: Jin, Sayid or Sawyer.\u00a0 By the season finale, we got to see Locke finally open that goddamned hatch and a kidnapping that would lead to our two favourite catchphrases from the show:\u00a0 ‘Waaaaaalt’ and ‘They took mah boy’.\u00a0 Strangely, none of that really amounted to anything at all by the end of the series.<\/p>\n

Which leads us to the second season at which point the show already started to lose some of its audience.\u00a0 Its soaring popularity followed by a gradual decline in public interest makes it sort of like a protracted version of Twin Peaks<\/em>.\u00a0 Or maybe The X-Files<\/em> is a better example.\u00a0 Season Two is more or less a waste of time and just gave everyone a major case of blue balls.\u00a0 We are introduced to the Tailies, a bunch of survivors from the tail end of the plane, who, mostly because of DUI arrests involving the actors off-screen, get written off\u00a0 and killed by the end of the season.\u00a0 Locke spends his whole time pushing a button and there is a lot of talk about the other hatches on the island and the Dharma Initiative, none of which ends up really going anywhere.<\/p>\n

I guess it wasn’t all bad though.\u00a0 It was also the season in which the Losties find a man caught in a trap on the island who called himself Henry Gale who would go on to become one of the best characters on the show.\u00a0 It also gave us Desmond, our first real good look at Smokey the Smoke Monster and even though he doesn’t amount to much, Mr Echo is also one of the coolest dudes on the show.<\/p>\n

Then onto Season Three, which was tops.\u00a0 It gave us all those smokin’ hot scenes with Kate when she’s in the cage.\u00a0 This season also gave us one of the best gamechanging cliffhangers to end the season when we find out what we’re watching in the last episode is a flashforward<\/em>, not a flashback.<\/p>\n

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Lost Season 3 was pretty great<\/p><\/div>\n

Season Four of Lost unfortunately was cut short due to the Great Hollywood Writers Strike of 2008.\u00a0 Personally, I think it coincides with the height of my indifference to the show where I felt it was just starting to go throught the motions at bit.\u00a0 I think this was probably the lowlight for Lost discourse for me personally too.\u00a0 At this stage, there wasn’t any at work colleagues or many of my friends watching the show.\u00a0 I think it was just me and Jen.\u00a0 And even then I think she was watching it out of habit rather than anything else too.\u00a0 However, the season did give us a rather sweet episode involving a timetravelling Desmond’s quest to be reunited with Penny.\u00a0 That episode, The Constant<\/em>, is probably the best thing about this season.<\/p>\n

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Lost Season 4 introduced Frank Lapidus. When everyone else was concerned or worried, Frank was just happy to be there<\/p><\/div>\n

Season Five is a bit strange.\u00a0 Lost becomes That Seventies Show<\/em>.\u00a0 It was alright, I guess.<\/p>\n

I’ve blogged a little<\/a> bit<\/a> already about Season Six.\u00a0 In short, first I was worried, then I grew to like it.\u00a0 The show finally starts getting around to closing off some of these long-standing story arcs with the alternative No Plane Crash timeline that gave the characters a chance to redeem themselves.\u00a0 In particular, I liked the Ben Linus episode where he gets to make amends with Alex.\u00a0 Then in the present day timeline, the show was more or less action packed with Smokey the Smoke monster inhabiting Locke’s body and killing dudes left and right.\u00a0 Lastly, we also started getting a wrap on ol’ Jacob too which is turn, goes a long way towards explaining the character motivations for people like Richard and Ben.<\/p>\n

Which leads up to the final episode.<\/p>\n

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…and I’ll blog about that once I get word that Pat finally watches the damn thing.\u00a0 Seriously man.\u00a0 What the hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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