I Am Such a Lostie

I LOVE that show...woohoo...season finale heaven for Magic and Goofy!

yay!

I like shows that challenge my ability to figure them out long before they roll on to their nearly inevitable conclusions...that's the biggest draw for me with this show.

Most standard TV is a rehash of one thing or another...Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes...for crying out loud they are even remaking 70's TV shows as feature length movies because they can't come up with original ideas on their own any more.


Not so much for the folks that write Lost. Interesting characters, these two head writers who have it all locked up in their minds...the direction they are going...a surprise or ten along the way...

The writers have a plan. Can you believe it? They know that they will write two more seasons after this one, and they are planning (OMG) how to wend all the various strings into a package that makes some sense of things (and leaves others open for interpretation and debate).

Mostly, when watching television, I know who did the murder, stole the loot or did the bad stuff by about the twenty minute mark (if that).

The few shows that try to step out of the pedantic slog end up being too high brow (I guess) for the average American viewer and are cancelled forthwith.

This demographic that swarms to American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance and the ever exciting, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (most Americans are not, BTW)...sad statement about the average American, but I digress ( I suspect that there is a Master's Thesis there somewhere :) is nothing so much as a window into the heart of the American psyche. Not all of us, but most of us...the average...

We've known this, about the "average" American for some time, but it's still sad. It's why we are where we are today...

/rant...without going too much astray, Benjamin Franklin had said that "those who give up liberty for safety, deserve neither", and yet it's now "unAmerican" to question what is going on with our government and the whole "Patriot Act".../end rant

So, when I find a show that surprises me, and makes me think a bit about what may be going on, I like it...a few brain cells get exercised and the possibilities expand awareness of everything else around.

It's cool.

Try it...pick up a book or watch a lecture (there are tons available for free downloads from itunes - I am watching a physics series from Stanford at the moment...principles of particle physics, actually, and my mind is getting expanded a bit there - fun times)...

something that you just don't quite understand...

something you have to work at a bit to figure out....

something that stretches your mind and imagination...

It won't hurt, I promise...and you just might like it!

Off to exercise those brain cells...

Be Happy!

M&G