"It’s not even over, but they feel ‘Lost’; Fans not ready to watch show go" by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff | May 16, 2010
“Lost’’ has become one of the most talked-about, e-mailed-about, and blogged-about shows in television history....
I have watched a couple episodes with people who love it and I fail to the the attraction -- but that's me! I don't understand all the time travel, back and forth stuff. If you haven't been with them from the start, it's no good.
Believe me, I don't want to dump on anyone's passion; however, WHY is this on the FRONT PAGE of the "NEWS"PAPER?
Legions of fans know they will miss it as they face the bleak reality that one week from tonight “Lost’’ will end and they will be permanently kicked off that mysterious island....
Well, GET OVER IT!
Btw, when can we get that feeling regarding an END to a WAR from YOU, war-promoting Glob?
A FANTASY TV PROGRAM is MORE IMPORTANT?
“Lost’’ revolves around plane-crash survivors who are trapped on a tropical island and forced to cope with an array of ominous forces, including a murderous smoke monster, a furtive band of inhabitants known as the Others, and the burdens the survivors carry from their own pasts. Over time the series grew more complicated, weaving together so many strands of adventure, sci-fi, romance, literary references, paranormal events, and religious allegory that it brought to mind Winston Churchill’s description of Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.’’
I don't have time to also figure that one out, sorry.
That meant “Lost’’ was emphatically not for everyone.
Neither is the newspaper.
Some of my friends and family can't believe I read it. They think it is total crap and never pick up one.
Come to think of it....
The series averaged 13 million viewers in its first two seasons and hit a peak of 15 million viewers in season three, but some viewers then started to drift away, frustrated by the loose ends “Lost’’ refused to tie up and the narrative blind alleys the show sometimes stumbled into. So far this season, according to the Nielsen Co., “Lost’’ is averaging 11.6 million viewers.
So it is just like the X-Files from a decade ago?
Funny, that show will remain unmentioned in this article as a comparison.
Yeah, AGENDA-PUSHING MOUTHPIECES for GOVERNMENT wouldn't even want you entertaining the thought of a CORRUPT GOVERNMENT HIDING HORRIBLE SECRETS!
And TOSS OUT the ALIEN OVERTURE! That is just to make "conspiracy theorists" look like fools and to divert the public. I'm not going down a "government hiding aliens" road when we have MASS-MURDER BASED on LIES right in front of us!
However,
You have to love the buts, stills, yets, ifs, and all the rest of the colorful qualifiers I was told in college to never to use in a report -- and YET here they are FILLING UP my AGENDA-PUSHING NEWSPAPER every day!
Now you see the method to my madness, 'eh?
that doesn’t measure their intensity — or, at this moment, their mixed emotions. “Lost’’ loyalists are in a state of fever-pitch anticipation that the finale will yield the answers to some big questions — What is the island? Why are such characters as Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer there? What’s the deal with the Sideways world? — but many of them aren’t ready to say goodbye to the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. They have the sinking feeling there will never be a TV show this engrossing again.
Sarah Kupper and her fiancé saw this final season as so momentous that before it began they devoted 15 consecutive nights to re-watching all 100-plus episodes from the first five seasons.
Really?
No life, huh?
“One of the things I’m going to miss most about ‘Lost’ is the anticipation and excitement every single week leading up to the next episode,’’ says Kupper, 26, of Allston....
Which reminds me -- sadly -- of the CLASSIC STAR TREK and how we used to WAIT with SUCH ANTICIPATION to see WHAT CRAPPY ACTING and CRAPPY SETS we would see woven around a TREMENDOUS STORY (for the first year and half, then vffffffft, down) on our BLACK-and-WHITE TV SCREEN!!
Yet
One of THOSE WORDS AGAIN!
as the end draws near, there is one lurking dread deep within the souls of “Lost’’ devotees. It goes by the name of “The Sopranos.’’ Fans fear that after having been left hanging for so long, the finale of “Lost’’ will be so ambiguous that it will leave them hanging forever.
Ummm, yeah, I have TRIED TO IMPRESS THAT UPON the fans I know and the THOUGHT is HORRIFYING!
FIVE YEARS of WAITING and they are NOT GOING TO ANSWER the QUESTIONS!!
There are even SPOILER RUMORS OUT THERE which I will not divulge that could be a REAL LETDOWN!!!
We shall see in a few weeks, huh?
Well, not me, BUT....
“It’s been this six years of ‘What’s going on?’ and I’m hoping they’ll answer it,’’ said Jack Cahill, 44, of Roxbury. “I have this background fear that they’ll leave something unresolved, like ‘The Sopranos.’ Please don’t do that.’’ Then again, Cahill conceded, “There’s too much out there to ever be resolved fully.’’
What is it with the GLOBE PEDALING FEAR?
It is a F***ING TV SHOW!!!!!!!!
Not that it has ever prevented fans from trying....
In an era of niche cable channels, narrowly sliced audiences, and cultural fragmentation, “Lost’’ served as common ground.
Yeah, NEVER MIND the 80% of us who WANT an END to the WARS, BANK BAILOUTS, and a DECENT SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH SYSTEM!
Got MORE IMPORTANT THINGS to come together over, 'eh, Globe?
Does remind me of the ball games because the same effect holds there.
Never give a name, though, folks. Not in AmeriKa.
“There was this feeling when you met somebody else who watched ‘Lost,’ ’’ said Leah Burrows, 23, of Allston. “It created an instant bond with people. I would meet friends of friends, and ‘Lost’ would come up, and there was this sort of zeroing in. And then for the next 45 minutes to an hour that would be all you talked about.’’
Oh, were that we could TALK 9/11 and IRAQ LIES for 45 MINUTES, 'eh?
No, Amurkns don't want to talk about those troublesome things.
And THAT is what is the SAD TROUBLE with this ONCE GREAT NATION!
It is WHY WE are "LOST," Americans!!!
The same was true in the workplace.
Pffft!
Yeah, guy just put a knife in my back (oddly like the program), but he likes "Lost," so....
Josué Jansen of Roslindale said he got to know coworkers he never would have gotten to know were it not for “Lost.’’
Why?
Can't just say hello and ask a person about their life?
Believe me, AmeriKans LOVE TO TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES and what THEY ARE DOING! I get it ALL the TIME as I BITE MY TONGUE because they GLAZE OVER when I BRING UP MY TOPICS!
That's okay. Head back in the s*** pile, whatever.
“The day after the finale, we’re all getting together,’’ said Jansen, 26. “We’re probably going to wear black and mourn the loss of the show.’’
But you WOULDN'T WANT TO DO THAT for the MILLIONS we have SLAUGHTERED in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan, huh?
Sigh.
Not for a PALESTINIAN?
Not for an AmeriKan kid dead upon the unholy alter of MSM war lies?
YOU TRULY ARE LOST, AmeriKa (and Globe)!!!
Of course, fans have been plunged into mourning by the end of many beloved series, from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show’’ to “M*A*S*H’’ to “Seinfeld’’ to “Sex and the City.’’ In fact, another popular and long-running series, “24,’’ will end the night after the “Lost’’ finale....
I'm really, really wondering why X-Files didn't make the cut because it is the closest parallel.
--more--"Related: Why does TV (almost) always botch series finales?
Oh, a fleeting reference (as far as I read) in there!
And about that other Fox show they mentioned:
"Time’s up; The real-ish world of ‘24’ and the magic one of ‘Lost’ see their last hours" by Thomas Doherty | April 1, 2010
Note the date, readers, for the next item down!
IT LOOKS like the terrorists have won: Fox has canceled “24.’’
That's a WIN for ALL of US!
Of course, I wouldn't know. Even back then I found the show repugnant.
Premiering less than two months after 9/11 and anchored by the raspy-voiced, clenched teeth performance of Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, the off-the-reservation super-agent for the US government’s Counter Terrorism Unit, “24’’ was from the get-go eerily in tune with American jitters in the age of terrorism.
Yeah, and ONCE YOU REALIZE the INSIDE NATURE of the JOB and the MSM's FUNCTION as a PROPAGANDA CONDUIT you understand that it must have been MORE THAN COINCIDENCE that SOMEONE in HOLLYWOOD had this idea READY TO GO!
Whatever McGuffin was being tracked down by Jack and the CTU team — computer disks, nuclear fuel rods, lethal pathogens — the show marked time with a surveillance-happy society where Big Brother was deemed more protector than oppressor.
How LIFE IMITATES ART (or is it art imitates life? Actually, what's the difference?)!!
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, apocalyptic scenarios no longer seemed like far-fetched fantasies and ethical qualms about torture were put on pause in the interests of national security.
So NO FALSE FLAG COMING THEN, newspaper?
Related: Obama's Nuclear Nonsense
NO NUKE BOMB in an American city?
I have YOUR WORD on that?
It was the show’s penchant for up-close-and-personal torture sessions that became its most controversial and excruciating hook — not because of the physical pain inflicted on the suspect but because of the moral complicity demanded of the viewer.
What an INSULT to the American people right there -- AS IF WE EVER APPROVED of TORTURE and it was NOT ABOUT the PAIN!!
NOT HERE, buddy!!
Readers, see:
PROOF of Bush Administration War Crimes!
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/The First Abu Ghraib
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Perversion
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Dilawar and Habibullah
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Chamber of Horrors
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/American Amnesty
Hell-oween: Afghanistan Torture File/Bagram
Afghanistan Torture Chamber
The Globe's Weekend Movie
Also see:
Memory Hole: Iraq's Jails
Memory Hole: Camp Nama and Task Force 6-26
Occupation Iraq: New Torture Techniques Revealed
Memory Hole: What Four Years of Torture Will Do to an Innocent Man
You all set now, readers?
Or maybe you would like to ride the waterboard for all of the six seconds before your mind starts going haywire and sending out terrifying survival signals to your body?
Season in, season out, Jack always went medieval on a high-value target who refused to cough up the goods.
Was he INNOCENT like in REAL LIFE?
He turned the screw; we cheered him on.
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF!
I BOOED the show without even watching it!
The show did not simply traffic in torture as entertainment; it entertained the notion of torture as a necessary part of the business of anti-terrorism when the clock was ticking.
Yeah, TORTURING PEOPLE over something they could NOT POSSIBLY KNOW because THEY DIDN'T DO IT -- the TORTURER DID! -- is ENTERTAINMENT! BEATING THEM to DEATH is FUN!!!!!
You TRULY ARE LOST, Globe! You are SICK!
That open-mindedness was enough to earn “24’’ must-see TV status for the Bush-Cheney portion of the Nielsen demographic.
Did they JUST CALL TORTURE OPEN-MINDED?
But
THERE is THAT WORD AGAIN!
if “24’’ skewed to the right in a prime time landscape dominated by standard-issue Hollywood liberalism, the plot dynamics tilted to the left often enough to keep viewers off balance....
I don't know what that means.
Left-right?
No such thing in AmeriKa; you are either for freedom or fascism now.
The cancellation of 24 is particularly bitter news in a TV season that will also witness the self-imposed termination of “Lost.’’
Yaaaaaay!
The two shows are obvious companion pieces, ying to each other’s yang....
Oh, that is an INSULT to LOST!!!
Again, a more appropriate analogy is X-Files, what with DARPA running that island.
So no matter what it is, even TV shows, the agenda-pushing Globe gives you a distorted picture through its prism.
Sigh.
In “24,’’ human beings are relentlessly tracked by the technology of surveillance — monitored by video cameras, pinned and nailed by satellites, reduced to blips on a computer screen.
In other words, the FUTURE, Americans. Just getting you prepped for it; that is what "24"'s job was.
In “Lost,’’ the castaways are totally off the grid....
I will be off the Globe grid shortly.
Yet
ANOTHER one of THOSE WORDS!
for all its flaws, “24’’ operated in something like the real world, not in the magic realism of “Lost,’’ where the threats are from smoke monsters and worm holes, or the faux realism of the “CSI“ and “Law and Order’’ franchises, where white-gloved experts connect all the dots at the top of the hour.
Yeah, DO NOT EXPECT GOVERNMENT to see all those FALSE FLAGS WAVING, folks, like on TV!
“24’’tapped into deep-rooted fears, not all of them paranoid, and asked tough questions, not all of them with pleasant answers....
Oh, ANOTHER INSULT when you ONCE AGAIN CONSIDER 9/11 and WHO WAS REALLY BEHIND IT!
Thomas Doherty is a professor in the American Studies Department at Brandeis University.
Oh, why am I NOT SURPRISED this is on the Globe's ops page!?
--Time’s up--"
Yeah, it SURE IS GLOBE!
Here's another front-page piece of fiction:
"A cooling trend; They were friends as global warming skeptics, but then their minds and lives diverged. That these MIT experts now see the facts, and each other, so differently shows how hard climate consensus will be" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | May 16, 2010
Related: April Fools Day
You want to be one, too, readers?
Richard Lindzen, a leading specialist on atmospheric physics, has emerged as one of the most prominent climate change skeptics in the world. At age 70, he speaks at home and overseas, arguing that there is little to worry about from emissions of heat-trapping gases from power plants, factories, and cars. We should “go back to dealing with real science and real environmental problems such as assuring clean air and water,’’ he wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Earth Day....
EXACTLY!!!
Months later, Kerry Emanuel and Lindzen participated in MIT’s The Great Climategate Debate, about the significance of a batch of leaked e-mails among top climate scientists, which had sparked questions about their integrity and data....
That is ALL the Globe gives to CLIMATEGATE!
Related: Just in time for John Kerry's global warming bill: Record-breaking cold in Kerry's Massachusetts
Yeah, that is GROUND ZERO for ME, dear readers!
PFFFFFFTTT!!
The story of the scientists’ relationship is much more than a curiosity. The fact that these serious-minded colleagues and longtime friends disagree so vehemently highlights the immense difficulty of finding common ground on human-caused global warming.
You can always count on the agenda-pushing, war-promoting paper to find a conflict. And if there is not one, don't worry, they will set about making one.
That’s because their disagreements are not just about interpretations of scientific data, but about how they assess the risks, amid the uncertainty over global warming’s future impact.
You smell something, readers?
Their divide mirrors a much larger political split, as the US Senate begins to debate a climate bill written in large part by Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry. All parties to the debate have the same evidence to draw on; their conclusions are another matter....
Yeah, ONE SIDE is SHOVELING you BS after enduring TWO BRUTAL WINTERS sandwiched by NO SUMMER!
And I had to keep this next phrase:
The comments, while literally true, suggested....
So WHAT TROUBLE does the PAPER have with the TRUTH?!
--more --"
A BIG ONE when THAT is their SUNDAY FEATURE!
Greenway planners shifting approach
Related: Boston Globe Bedtime Stories
Sigh.
That's why I didn't read it.
And why I haven't read that much of the Globe today (or any day lately).
