Congratulations on pulling off an amazing show. Don’t tell anyone … but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t know where it was going either. The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance. Throw in some father issues and references to other stories — let’s call them homages — and you’ve got a series.
In six seasons, you’ve managed to span both time and space, and I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I never saw what was around the corner. Now that it’s all coming to an end, it’s impressive to see how much was planned out in advance and how neatly you’ve wrapped up everything. You’ve created something really special. I’m sad that the series is ending, but I look forward to seeing what you two are going to do next.
I love TV, who doesn’t? But while the last 4 or 5 years have been quite generous in providing me with a plethora of entertainment the pickings for the next couple of years could be significantly slimmer. Read on for a look at what favourites are dead and buried, which ones will be back next year and what new shows sit on the horizon.
We’re currently stuck in the awful period between the end of one TV season and the beginning of the next. There is almost nothing worth watching, and won’t be until about October when the 2010 TV season kicks into gear. On top of that 2010 needs to spawn a few decent new shows to fill the gaps that have been/will be left by the number of shows ending this year or next. Without which we’re facing the possibility of a very unentertaining 2011.
The past year has seen the end of numerous shows, either because they wound things up, were dropped by their network or a combination of the two. A couple of promising newbies also showed up, and a few old favourites (and less favourites) continued on. The question for some of those is how long do they have left.
“Ok. We did crash. We were on this crazy island and we waited for rescue but there wasn’t any rescue and then there was this smoke monster and there were other people on the island, we call them ‘The Others’, and they started attacking us, and we found some hatches and there was a button we had to push every 108 minutes or… well I was never really clear on that, but ‘The Others’ didn’t have anything to do with the hatches, that was the Dharma Initiative, they were all dead, ‘The Others’ killed them and now and now they’re trying to kill us, and then we teamed up with ‘The Others’ because some worse people were coming on a freighter, Desmond’s girlfriend’s father sent them to kill us, so we stole their helicopter and we flew it to their freighter, but it blew up and we couldn’t go back to the island because it disappeared so then we crashed in the ocean and we floated there for a while till a boat came and picked us up and by then there were six of us, that part was true.”
That’s how Hurley explained it to his Mother… and she believed him.
In a break from the norm this post has nothing to do with wordpress, twitter, html, php design or any of that. Whats more I’ve even included a youtube video. Why? Because the first ‘teaser’ trailer for season 4 of Lost was cool, but the new longer trailer is even better, I can’t wait until January 31st.
I’ve already watched a couple of times, but no doubt I’ll be watching it several times more looking for something, anything, that might be hidden in it. On a related matter, my urge for Lost got the better of me and I’ve started rewatching from the start of season 1. I’ve setup a separate blog (instead of cluttering this one even further) where I’ll note down ‘points of interest’ as I work my through the first three seasons (hopefully I can get through them all before Jan 31st), and I’ll also post some theories. If you want to check it out (and why wouldn’t you) just jump over to http://lost.deanjrobinson.com and have a read (no comments setup yet, I’ll try and get that done soon Actually looks like the comments are there, just not styled…yet). Be warned though if you don’t want any spoilers what so ever, even they are most likely not even true, you probably won’t want to read. There you have been warned.