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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Lost
Are you watching 'Lost'?
If you're not you should - it's great! A plane crashes and there are 48 survivors... but they're not any old survivors. There's a handsome doctor who is very brave, a pretty girl with a dark secret, an ugly fat bloke who's a bit of a nerd, a creepy calm man who sits staring out to sea a lot, a middle-eastern man who's good with electronics, a heavily pregnant girl who's not got a husband, a Japanese couple who don't speak English... the type of people you normally find on a plane. They're stranded on an island and no-one knows they're there. And there's some sort of monster on the island that's killed the pilot and crushes trees as it rushes (invisibly) through the forest roaring. It's good fun and quite exciting.
As I was watching it yesterday I realised that it seemed to be effortlessly taking us along with it. You know how sometimes you're watching something and all of a sudden you realise that you've been totally engrossed - well, like that. A bit like an M Night Shyamalan movie. It seemed so easy I started thinking 'why aren't there more programs like this?' So I started paying a bit more attention and, whilst it's relatively formulaic, it's a good formula, and it's got all the right ingredients such as well-written dialogue, interesting characters, cool scenery, exciting twists in the plot.... That's why there aren't more programs like this: getting all this right is probably really hard.
You didn't ask for a review, and I hadn't planned to give one, it just happened. Life's like that sometimes.
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