Pulling into a sleight lead
Okay, enough of not getting you. Let's talk TV.
You know, considering Veronica Mars' consistent increase in quality, and Lost's increasing insistence on pointless, meandering episodes (IS ANYONE GONNA LOOK FOR CLAIRE!) combined with the fact that it has fake-killed two of its leads, and I have no choice but to come to the conclusion that Veronica Mars is a consistently better show than Lost. I just caught an episode of Mars I had missed a couple of weeks back (the one with the serial killer) and I just keep enjoying that show more and more.
Lost was flailing a while back, but then they came up with those awesome two episodes where Claire gets kidnapped and Charlie should've died. But if Charlie had died, that might have spurred the cast into actually DOING something, and we can't have that! Instead we get Kate trying to open a suitcase for an hour, and get no real explanation of what's inside. Then the next episode focuses on Boone and Locke and hey, maybe we'll get to see what they're digging up! Ha, no we won't! Instead a good chunk of the episode will be a hallucination! Thanks, Lost! I haven't seen this past week's episode yet, the one focusing on Mercutio or Link or The Guy Who Gets Eaten By the Bear in The Edge or whatever you want to call him, but if someone doesn't go look for Claire, or if we don't find out what Locke and Boone have discovered, then I'm going to be mighty pissed. Matt's got the tape, so I guess we'll watch it this weekend. But for me the mystery is now not so much "intriguing" as "frustratingly drawn out."
When Lost works, it really works. Better than the best episodes of Veronica Mars. It's just that Lost doesn't really click all that often. It's rarely actively bad (Sawyer and Charlie's backstories are the only one that felt really hackneyed to me), but it rarely reaches its potential.
Lost aims higher, but misses often. Veronica Mars aims lower, and almost always hits the mark. We'll see how their mysteries play out.
You know, considering Veronica Mars' consistent increase in quality, and Lost's increasing insistence on pointless, meandering episodes (IS ANYONE GONNA LOOK FOR CLAIRE!) combined with the fact that it has fake-killed two of its leads, and I have no choice but to come to the conclusion that Veronica Mars is a consistently better show than Lost. I just caught an episode of Mars I had missed a couple of weeks back (the one with the serial killer) and I just keep enjoying that show more and more.
Lost was flailing a while back, but then they came up with those awesome two episodes where Claire gets kidnapped and Charlie should've died. But if Charlie had died, that might have spurred the cast into actually DOING something, and we can't have that! Instead we get Kate trying to open a suitcase for an hour, and get no real explanation of what's inside. Then the next episode focuses on Boone and Locke and hey, maybe we'll get to see what they're digging up! Ha, no we won't! Instead a good chunk of the episode will be a hallucination! Thanks, Lost! I haven't seen this past week's episode yet, the one focusing on Mercutio or Link or The Guy Who Gets Eaten By the Bear in The Edge or whatever you want to call him, but if someone doesn't go look for Claire, or if we don't find out what Locke and Boone have discovered, then I'm going to be mighty pissed. Matt's got the tape, so I guess we'll watch it this weekend. But for me the mystery is now not so much "intriguing" as "frustratingly drawn out."
When Lost works, it really works. Better than the best episodes of Veronica Mars. It's just that Lost doesn't really click all that often. It's rarely actively bad (Sawyer and Charlie's backstories are the only one that felt really hackneyed to me), but it rarely reaches its potential.
Lost aims higher, but misses often. Veronica Mars aims lower, and almost always hits the mark. We'll see how their mysteries play out.
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