I'm tired. So tired, I can't write any of the fabulous posts I have in mind. (You're dying to read them. I know. I can picture you all out there, gathered around your computer screens, breathless with anticipation, hitting refresh over and over again, muttering to yourselves, "But when will MPJ post?!")
Now, I could blame my current sleep deprived state (and subsequent inability to write a substantive post) on my kids. (And we all know that research would back me up on that.) But the truth is that even after I get the kids to sleep, I'm staying up well beyond my bedtime, powerless over Lost.
I don't know why I've never watched it, but I haven't, until last week. Since summer TV is slow and since my husband and I enjoy snuggling on the couch and watching something before bed and since we'd heard good things about the show, Mark decided to rent the first season of Lost on DVD. The problem is, we haven't been able to limit ourselves to just one episode a night. We'll watch one more and one more and then stagger around like zombies the next day.
Most of the characters are cheesy. Most of them have silly back stories. But there's a monster on the island, people. And it makes scary rumbling sounds. And there's creepy music. And also an addict (although he isn't very believable). And there's a woman who so obviously has never been pregnant playing a pregnant woman. (That's always fun.) Somehow it's all very compelling. And keeping me up until after midnight giggling with my husband about the fake pregnancy and then shrieking and clutching him closer when the soundtrack gets spooky. No wonder I can't stop watching.
Ok, I must confess: I've never watched Lost. Now I may have to!
HA! we went through the exact same experience when we finally got around to renting the first couple seasons; you simply cannot watch JUST ONE!!!
I was tricked into watching Lost a couple years ago. I wasn't interested in the show at all (stuck on a deserted island, NO THANKS), but was similarly hooked when my husband showed up with the first season on DVD. It sealed my fate, and I am a total Lost-junky now.
I did the DVD thing with Heroes and ended up watching three DVDs at a time. I thought it was great how it just fades to black and back to the show again where commercials should be. It's like a cliff hanger without the hanging. I thought I would do the same with Lost but it is my interest that got lost around the third DVD. I'm not sure why. Lost is certainly no more cheesy than Heroes yet that one captivated me. Maybe it's because the magic is much more overt in Heroes than in Lost. I love magic.
I had the exact same thing happen, only I wasn't nearly so critical a viewer.
I was hooked from the first frame. I think that losing sleep is stage one: but when you have to *gasp* WAIT between episodes?
It's horrifyingly hard.
I recently finished season 2 in just this fashion. I believe the last few episodes took me right through to nearly 3 in the morning. I'm a little scared to pick up season 3...
They have all four seasons available instantly on streaming video here. FYI: Pain pill and alcohol addiction play a substantial role in the characters of almost every season and the cast have their own substance abuse problems off set.
I have actively refused to watch Lost. Back when it was the must see show, I vowed never to watch a single episode (I know, it's kinda silly). The little I know is from watching spoofs on shows like The Soup.
We watched the first two seasons, and then the third season got WAAAAY sillier and it got hard to watch without screaming at the TV "that's so stupid".
Just warning you. Enjoy it now.
Too funny. Joe and I began renting the Lost series out of total boredom and then really got into it. We too stayed up super late watching episode after episode. Now, we are waiting for the next season to be released. It is cheesy, no doubt about it. But, it is also a lot of fun.
Oh Mpj, I am a super lost girl (my super hero name, perhaps?)
Lost is the BEST EVER, and it will appeal to your geeky senses with all it's wonder, magic, and some kind of quantum physics.
Yay mpj.I will totally forgive any lack of posting to give you time to catch up
Have you seen the episode where the obviously never pregnant woman gives birth yet? That's particularly hilarious.
I watched most of the first season of "Lost," got bored halfway into season 2, but started watching again this year. I missed out on a fair amount of the story in the middle there, but it didn't seem to matter too much when I started watching again.
I have never watched this before - my husband said he wanted to rent the first season and I looked at him like he was nuts, now I think I will encourage him! Ha!
If a Lost addicts 12-step group existed, I'd be at every meeting. My husband and I got so into this show in the very first season and we've been following it ever since. Between seasons, it's like we're going through withdrawal--we count down the months until it's on again and lament how everything else on TV sucks.
Same thing happened to me and my wife with the Sopranos. After the first two seasons on DVD I had to start hunting down episodes post ed on the internet. We would hover around my 17 inch monitor watching really bad quality Sopranos mpegs.
Thought you might find this funny: http://jezebel.com/351182/i-have-an-abusive-boyfriend-and-hes-coming-home-at-8
I loved the first season of Lost but dropped off interest about half way through season 2 or 3...
I love watching TV on DVD! There's a great video store by my house where you can get 3 DVDs for 8 nights for $5.75! I watched The Wire, West Wing and Big Love this way and it is so fantastic!
Wayward Son!! I so missed you. I love Heroes too -- just sad that this season was so short. Lost started to get slow a little ways in to the first season, but then it picked up again.
Mim, if you were up until 3am, you totally kick my butt. Actually, you totally kick my husband's butt. I'm the night person, so he's the limiting factor in my joint TV watching.
Virginia, yes. Her fake childbirth rocks. Mark and I were yelling at her to push out the placenta.
I also like how in the very next scene she is in after giving birth, she has a totally flat stomach. Ha ha ha ha ha! (People who haven't had kids are reading that and thinking, "What's so funny?")
I can relate to TIRED … I’m finding myself exhausted often lately though for different reasons than you. Having typed that, I suspect the best way to watch a show like LOST is ‘one right after the other’ like this … and even then, I suspect it would remain ‘confusing’ at best if what I’ve heard about the program is true. I’m looking forward to the return of the other series that jumps all over in time that I did watch … but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the show. Sheesh! It’s morning even … and my mind won’t work (no doubt from minimal sleep and trying to do too much) … but it’s the one where each character has a different ‘gift’ and they’re trying to ‘save the cheerleader to save the world’ … Why am I drawing a blank? Sigh!
Hugs and blessings,
storyteller, that's Heroes! And I love that one too.