i've got your society of the spectacle right here.
what is it with you people who don't watch LOST? are you just trying to be contrarian? or -- oh -- do you not even own a tv, because its lowbrow spectacle ceased to amuse you once you worked your way through the greats of both ancient and modern literature and started hand-rolling your own cigarettes while listening to NPR and drinking french press coffee every morning? hmmm? (note: that last sentence shamelessly paraphrases something the old hag said, and she's worth stealing from err quoting). too good for us, are you?
listen, cut that shit out and climb aboard the happyland train with the rest of us amusing ourselves to death. ITS FUN! and, seriously, a single episode of LOST is probably more edifying than reading, like, most contemporary poetry. and probably all of the Beats -- with the possible exception of things written by paul bowles, who isn't really a Beat anyway. and pretty much everything written in the 1970s besides Gravity's Rainbow. so yeah, cross the latter half of the 20th C. off your literary To Do list and JOIN US.
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Right now, the worst thing about being in Germany is having to wait 24 hours after everyone else to watch Lost.
HOWEVER, I did finally see last week's, and boy was I thrilled .. it's worth the wait!
Posted by: Paige | September 27, 2005 at 02:22 PM
I seriously can never remember when it's on. It's like I have a mental block. The times that I have managed to catch it, I've been pretty giddy, though.
Posted by: Kelly | September 27, 2005 at 02:36 PM
I was a late-comer to Lost, but now I cannot live without it. To the point that I'm in Charleston at the moment for a conference, and I've already set aside my Lost watching time.
Posted by: amber | September 27, 2005 at 02:49 PM
I missed the first few episodes of Season One. In my head, that means I can't watch it until the entire series is out on DVD, because now that I've missed those episodes I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.
In such a character driven show, that's a downfall.
Posted by: Danielle | September 27, 2005 at 03:19 PM
Right. Except it wasn't french press coffee, it was chai.
OK, OK! I surrender! I'll watch your little Gilligans Island show, see what all the fuss is about. *laboriously dusts off TV* Sigh ... now I have to get down here with the proles, watching the Brain Rotter, woe is me. 'twas far more fun to complain loftily about the opiated masses from my armchair.
Posted by: supa | September 27, 2005 at 03:42 PM
alright people, i'll give you basically the same advice i gave mary beth (supa):
1. recaps abound: http://televisionwithoutpity.com/show.cgi?show=136
2. lots more info here: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/
3. check out: http://abc.go.com/fsp/index.html?channel=Lost --where you can see recaps for episodes 22-24 (which lead up to the season premiere).
4. then watch the season premiere airing tomorrow night at 8pm, followed by the newest episode at 9pm.
5. VOILA! follow my simple 4-step plan and you'll be all caught up! if you love me, you'll do it.
and tom, you're full of doo-doo. if you had the context (by having viewed the previous season, or getting caught up via my special 4-step plan), you'd LOVE it. and if you insist on being a negative nelly i'm gonna come up there and kidnap kelly and make her high priestess of my new LOST cult. so HA!
Posted by: sweetney | September 27, 2005 at 04:15 PM
i watched the season premiere last week. ditto with the series premiere of that show about aliens. let me say it this way, i was so enamored by those shows that last night i completely forgot they were even on. they were very "eh". i love me some desperate housewives though, i hope my boy taped the season premiere since i missed it getting my birthday party thing on.
Posted by: tom | September 27, 2005 at 04:23 PM
ps: tom: happy birthday, jerkface.
Posted by: sweetney | September 27, 2005 at 04:38 PM
Geez people! You need TiVo. I don't know when anything is on, excpet Monday Night Football and I watch lost. I think it might be on Tuesdays.
Dear God, I love TiVo.
Posted by: Sarah | September 27, 2005 at 05:16 PM
If only Lost wasn't on at the same time as Veronica Mars. A really great show if you haven't seen it. Also, if only I had Tivo.
Posted by: erika | September 27, 2005 at 05:57 PM
I've only seen the second half of the season finale and it was totally random that I even caught that. I also suffer from that problem of never knowing when stuff is on. I also need Tivo.
Posted by: Jenny | September 27, 2005 at 07:32 PM
Hey, Erika: I totally hear you on the Veronica Mars/Lost conflict. Veronica Mars and Lost are both excellent shows, and we are too poor for Tivo at the moment. After last week's Lost premiere, though, it looks like Lost wins our household's Wednesday-nights-at-9 time slot. I'll miss VM, but CBS starting running repeats on Friday nights for a while this summer, so maybe I'll be able to catch up with it from time to time (on another network, which is weird).
Posted by: amanda | September 27, 2005 at 07:41 PM
Get a Direct-TV! It comes FREE with a DVR that can record two shows at once! That is how we solved the Veronica Mars / Lost conflict. What is really scary is that we have three TiVos, so can technically record four shows at once, but I am usually not so organized as to order the priorities perfectly so that each records a different thing. I only check when it is vital that certain shows are recorded.
Posted by: Kari | September 27, 2005 at 07:54 PM
AMEN SISTER! and we don't have TiVo, but we do hav a DVR. The other bonus with digital cable is that you can catch shows in different time zones. watch one show airing in detroit and then spokane! voila!
Posted by: jenB | September 27, 2005 at 08:18 PM
let me second kari's emotion regarding the direct-tv DVR. that shit is THE BOMB. fo suhr.
Posted by: sweetney | September 28, 2005 at 12:45 AM