From "Heroes" to Zeros
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Should I even bother to complain about this one?

I liked "Heroes", so far. But I can only fathom that so many of the leading character are being eliminated due to budget concerns. I suspect the series will return (year 2) with a smaller (and much cheaper) cast.

Sounds cold, right?

I've been watching the show more or less faithfully and to be honest, the storyline (to me) is even more muddled than "Lost". This was the problem I had with "Star Trek: TNG" shows / movies and the successive "Star Trek" shows: timeline jumping that weakened a story, not made it better.

I hate that ridiculous plot device.

Does anyone see the sense in a character jumping through time and meeting up with the self in different time periods? Especially when each subsequent self should logically be going through the same experience right after the first time jumper? So isn't that like a hatch full of rabbits jumping willy nilly all over the place? This is so stupid.

It is a perfect conundrum to jump into the past to change yourself, a historical event, and then be able go back to the future having fixed the mistake. However, if you've change the past, then the future won't be same to return to, and based on the circumstances that changed you died or will die, thus unraveling and effectively changing many other events.

Wow, I just though of the perfect stories covering time jumping: Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin or the movie Lathe of Heaven DVD And one more: Twelve Monkees DVD Love me some Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.

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"Lost" is Lost - Year 3
Saturday, May 19, 2007

I love serial television programs. They remind me of the days, when I was a child, networks presented 15 hours+ miniseries. One could watch a program with a beginning and a definite end.

Today, it's "What do you get for watching a program for three years?" A whole-lotta-nothin' and a whole-lotta-questions.

Aside from saying that Lost is an ABC television program about plane crash "survivors" on an island in the pacific, there's not much more to add. From this show's inception the writers - appear to me - pull all and any sundry plots out of the whazoo.

My issue with the series are as follows:

• The plane broke in 2. Year one was about the front, which was excellent! and dramatic!
• Year two dealt with the back section, and the elimination of each "survivor" one by one right into Year three.

Say what? Yeah, we see people take up a year of story time, and they add absolutely, positively no value to the overall plot (I use the word plot, because I can't think of what else to call it).

Try doing that mess in a creative writing class.

I've only got one question, since this is near the end of year three. If John's father (Sawyer #1) says that everyone was found dead: What happened to Michael and Walt?

I think I could forgive the writers if when they present the big "what the fook is that?" they answer it in the following year.

Now that's not too much to ask, is it?

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