“LOST has jumped the shark!”
That’s what started off this morning’s IMs and emails from staffers and readers.
This from longtime reader Shar:
There seems to be roughly two camps — those who watch it for the characters and the backstory. These seem to be writers and creative types (right-brained folk). Then there’s the analytical people who are friggin counting numbers and who are obsessed with the hatch and thrilled by the adventure.
We’d probably be in the former category if not for a few spoil sport front office types who are always looking at the bottom line.
“They can’t have jumped. In the second episode Mike killed the shark.”
It appears Bad Robot and the writers of LOST have learned from J.J. Abrams previous “failures,” such as season three of Alias, and have plotted out the history of the island and its inhabitants giving them room to work with. We learn about the characters through flashback, and the island itself from their adventures.
Before last night Monster Island wasn’t a full character. Now things are different.
Stink’s Notes
The toughest part of last night’s show according to our editor was the final scene between Jack and Locke, what he called Jack’s “Drink the Cool-Aid Moment.”
If there was one complaint about the Dharma (& Greg) film “it looked too clean,” according to one Stinkster. “Some effects on LOST are grand. [The film] looked like they shot it on digital. They should have shot the thing on emulsion film, then done a transfer.” (Ed. Note: Probably cost prohibitive. And last time I checked nobody in Hawaii does film development.)
Finally: “Because the last time I saw the computer that was going to save the world it didn’t look like that.”
