Lost

Kate, there’s a certain gargantuan quality about this thing.

 
I have a friend at work who just loved Lost. He has a girlfriend who shares my love for Twin Peaks so I have had my numerous email exchanges with him at work over the show. He would mention Lost to me often in conversation, so I told him I’d give the series a go, considering it is on Netflix. I would try to open a slot during the early afternoon for the show going forward. I’m not sure how I’ll contribute to the show as far as my blog goes, but if the urge comes I’ll post some pieces here and there on it. This early afternoon I watched the first part of the Pilot episode of Lost. It finds 48 passengers stranded on an island. The beginning of any new show is essentially a blank canvas for us viewers to see the writer’s room unpack a cast of characters and gradually sketch the story arc and the developmental process of those in whatever setting is offered [hopefully to them] for our entertainment. I didn’t follow Lost during its initial run but it had that cult following many shows do when it deals with supernatural and sci-fi subject matter. My friend kind of fed me some spoilers because I had never really expressed any urgency to check it out so he didn’t feel compelled to remain mum on anything. I don’t care really as I’m always more interested in the characters anyway with the big story arc coming in second place. The pilot gives us a little bit of some of the characters. Those in creative understand that they have time to color in the lines of the secondary characters as time allows. So we get just the outlines for the exception of a chosen few.