DISQUS

David · 1 year ago

horray! Glad y'all enjoyed it...I figured you would if you could get into it! Hope Lois is feeling better SOON...and looking forward to seeing y'all soon too.

hadar · 1 year ago

She's still under the weather, but slightly on the mend. Heard from a number of people who are suffering from bad colds today, including your dad telling me about Jane. Say hi to everyone for us!

Neal W. · 1 year ago

Lost is awesome. I feel like it ebbs and flows - there's a string of episodes that are awesome and then some that are just ok. The character development is great. You really have to pay attention to what's going on otherwise you can easily miss stuff. Thanks for the holidays wishes - tell Lois I say hi!

hadar · 1 year ago

I totally agree with you (obviously). Lois says hi back, and Happy New Year! :-)

Wes · 1 year ago

I agree w/ Neal about paying attention. Sometimes, when I watch with my roommate (who has already seen the episodes), he gets mad and yells at me, "Wes, you need to watch, dude" He'll then ask, "do you remember when..." Sadly, sometimes I have forgotten previous episodes :)

But I am glad y'all are enjoying them...and I enjoyed reading your post!

hadar · 1 year ago

Indeed! Hard to forget a previous episode though when you're watching all of them back-to-back. :-)

Happy New Year, and thanks again!

jimbernard · 1 year ago

OK--if a guy only has time for one show should he bother with Lost when he could be watching Burn Notice?

hadar · 1 year ago

Very good question! Burn notice is a USA summer series, so there aren't many episodes.(8-10 in total so far). So, you can catch up in a weekend). If they do another season this summer (it was renewed, but you never know how long the writers strike will last), then USA always shows a marathon of the previous season to warm you up, so you can DVR the entire season in one day!

Lost is about to start season 4 (again, subject to writers strike stuff). So, that's a lot of episodes (I believe they have made 70 so far). So, it's a much bigger commitment.

Ultimately, it boils down to this: Lost is a serial program with tons of character development through back stories. It has lots of appeal for that reason alone, though the main story and mystery are quite interesting.

Burn notice is a mixture. In every single episode, two things are going on:

1) Some new adventure, which has nothing to do with any previous adventure, so it's not serialized in that sense.

2) The hero is searching for the reason he was burned, and the person who burned him. This part is indeed serialized, which makes watching the episodes out of order not as appealing as with other purely unserialized shows.

Given the general lack of time that we all have, I'd recommend Burn Notice. :-)

Jamie Thingelstad · 1 year ago

Okay -- I have sort of on purpose avoided watching Lost. Some good reasons, some bad. For some reason the show put me off from the very beginning. I've never seen an episode.

But, reading your writeup makes me want to go buy Season 1 on iTunes and sit down in front of Apple TV. Tempting... thanks for sharing.

hadar · 1 year ago

It's definitely worth it, but, you want to push through the first four episodes in a block, and by then, you'll be hooked. Come back and share your thoughts if you do it. :-)