Dawn ,'Sleeper'
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Want a funny? Lot's of people online are saying last night's Lost episode is one of the best yet, or certainly in a long time.
So I went to find the ratings, as my "we are not them" alerts went off.
12.85m viewers. One of the lowest rated episodes of Lost yet.
TWELVE MILLION VIEWERS. BOO-FUCKING-HOO.
(But, still, heh. Ratings are so meaningless. They only measure how many people wanted to see a particular episode, not how good it was. [Case in point: "One Angry Veronica," generally agreed to be the worst episode of VM, is the second-highest-rated episode. (Thankfully, "Spit and Eggs," one of the best, is the highest-rated episode.)])
I think shitty TV gets higher ratings because people watch it. I mean, Nightrider's remake got 14 million viewers or some such - and the 5 minute averages show it rose as it went along. ROSE. It's FUCKING AWFUL!
Ratings are meaningful in that as soon as the network sees they want to do a wacky time travel ep again, I suspect they'll be saying 'Yeah, don't do that. Blow something up instead! Work in a threesome, get a computerised car into the island!'.
Except for the fact that none of the promos even hinted that they were doing a wacky time-travel ep! Which, well, I was glad of, because that made it more surprising. I like previews to get me excited, but I don't actually need them to make me watch the next episode of a show I'm watching regularly.
Oh, I know P-C - but it suggests the regular audience tuned in, and then tuned out. It lost, like, 3 million viewers in one week. Something made them switch off.
Jack/Kate/Sawyer drama, maybe?
I mean, isn't a drop in ratings more a result of the quality of the previous episode? (Not that this explains SCC's dropping ratings, because it's been consistently pretty damn good.)
Count me among those who thought last night's was one of the best episodes in at least the last 2 seasons.
The editing was really tight, too, especially as the switches between past and present became more and more intense.
The editing was fantastic. I loved the transitions between the two times.
And it's interesting that not only is the Desmond/Penny thing really sweet...but also it's basically the reason the Lostaways are going to get off the Island.
Count me among those who thought last night's was one of the best episodes in at least the last 2 seasons.
Me too. Had just the right amount of Jack (3 seconds?), and Kate and Sawyer (0 seconds).