Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I'm Totally LOST

I freaking LOVE LOST. It's the best show ever for several reasons: (1) it is a completely impenetrable narrative (2) sports a totally implausible plot (3) and makes two dozen poorly thought through allusions to science, history and philosophical thought every episode. My favorite part of this show though is the occasional lead protagonist on the show, Jack Sheppard.

Jack is several things - a brilliant surgeon, a horrible son, a great ladies man ,a bad husband, a druggie/alcoholic and an incredible leader. He also, almost magically, always makes the wrong decision. These decisions inevitably simultaneously endanger his life and sacrifice the lives of those who choose to follow him. Thank god he's a narcissist otherwise he might start losing hope. Anyway, Wednesday is the season 5 finale and is the jumping off point for the season 6, the final 16 episodes of the show. Jack is stuck on the Island in 1977 with a hydrogen bomb. He figures he can set it off and undo all the bad decisions he has made up to this point. This should turn out really well.

If you have no idea what I am talking about, please don't tune in. Nothing will make any sense. Go buy the DVDs instead