Then why does everyone insist that the show is incredibly hard to follow?

Because it makes no sense. It rushes along, with style and momentum and explosions and the odd lust object here or there, but if you tried to map it, you'd drive Moebius mad.

Okay, I have an issue -- why do they one shot people like Djimoun Hounsou and Rick Yune? It makes no sense. I don't care what the practicality of the situations are. They need to fix that. For me.

Dear JJ:

Please stop killing off all the pretty men. It makes ita sad. Also, if you can make Weiss/Vaughn canon (or Sark/Vaughn/Weiss), we'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

Love,
Kat

JJ loves the idea of an arc. He's completely unprepared to deal with the consequences of having an arc. You've got to walk it and feed it and clean up after it...

And this is why the people who are so into Lost who think things map to other things, who are willing to obsess over detail upon detail are most likely in for a sad sad suprise.

pretty things go boom.

That I can handle.

It rushes along, with style and momentum and explosions and the odd lust object here or there, but if you tried to map it, you'd drive Moebius mad.

Damn it all, you people are going to make me watch an episode, aren't you? Just to see if it's as crazy-making as y'all say it is.

grape-nuts:

And this is why the people who are so into Lost who think things map to other things, who are willing to obsess over detail upon detail are most likely in for sad sad suprise.

So JJ is a wolf in Joss' clothing? Just when we think there's a "Little Miss Muffett, counting down 7-3-0" moment, he makes pretty things go boom, thereby devaluing them of significant meaning.

Maria, I don't know. I don't know that there ever WAS significance. In Alias, it works for things to go boom. You know in that universe it works. When they have an arc (like Rimbaldi) it's too ambitious and it deflates quickly.

With Lost I read people speculating about what Watership Downs means or the nature of the monster. And you know what, I'd bet money (and win it) that the writers and possibly JJ had no clue what the monster would be 6 weeks ago, let alone when they wrote the pilot.

JJ writes stuff that is fun for the ride. It pulls you along and it's pretty and it's fun. But honestly, the OC has more of an arc (cause soap opera) than Alias.

JJ's storytelling is like a full on Monet. From far away, it’s OK, but up close, it’s a big old mess.

Without having read any whitefont or seen the new ep yet, my two cents on the Alias topicy:

I imagine the only real 'plan' that JJ has is the Rambalid stuff. I do thing he knows where that is going, but much of everything else, yeah, he's making it up as he goes along. I imagine Season Three (and subsequent) would have been very different if Lena Olin had agreed to return, and he probably only brought in Isabella Rosselini to fill that gap, but I do get the feeling that he knows what he's doing with some of it.

So is the S4 premiere gonna make me change my mind, or squee?

This just in: The Daily Show? Still got it.

Wrod. I wish there was some way to tag a visual joke. If you could, Barack Obama with a giant halo of radiance would be my new tagline.

Poking head to post that, since I probably won't be here until after the weekend, according to the Buffista Calendar, tomorrow, Friday the 7th, will be Miracleman's birthday. So lots of early wishes for daddy MM!

And great Thursdays, Fridays, weekends and all the other "timelies", capitalized or not, for everybody. One day I'll be able to properly post again, not just skip-post-run.

Hi, Nilly. Did I miss you? What's keeping you so busy?

I feel like a little kid. I'm so happy that school has been canceled on account of snow. Well actually, perhaps I should say I feel like a teenager. When we had snow days when I was little, there was true joy. Now, as in my teens, the overwhelming feeling is more akin to relief.