Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery  

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Jessica - Dec 28, 2005 5:44:18 am PST #533 of 5968
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I want the storyteller to know how the story ends. Or at least refrain from saying, "I'm just making it up as I go along."

Huh. I'd much rather they honestly say "We're making it up as we go along" than pretend to have it all worked out in advance, which I know is a lie because that's just not how television shows get written. Making it up as they go along is par for the course in the medium they're working with, and it irritates me that they feel the need to hide that.


§ ita § - Dec 28, 2005 6:39:12 am PST #534 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Making it up as they go along is par for the course in the medium they're working with, and it irritates me that they feel the need to hide that.

They seem to be making it up after they go along.

"Oh, let's do this in the next ep!" "Why?" "Don't know yet!" "OK!"


le nubian - Dec 28, 2005 12:45:43 pm PST #535 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

so, I saw some stuff at futoncritic that people may be interested in:

"Revelation," the third "Lost" recap episode, is due to broadcast on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:00/7:00c as a lead-in to its first fresh installment of 2005 ("The 23rd Psalm") at 9:00/8:00c.

WTF are they doing all these fucking recaps?

In other news, there will also be recap eps of "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" around the same week.


Kathy A - Dec 28, 2005 1:03:42 pm PST #536 of 5968
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

My stepbrother told me that the S1 recap ep they showed before S2 started got him to stick around and watch it, and he's now hooked, even though he hasn't seen any eps from S1 yet (I'm loaning him my DVDs next time I head down to Dad's).


sumi - Dec 28, 2005 8:00:54 pm PST #537 of 5968
Art Crawl!!!

I saw an ad for the next new L&O:SVU - Malcolm David Kelley is guesting.


Jon B. - Dec 29, 2005 6:50:18 am PST #538 of 5968
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

WTF are they doing all these fucking recaps?

Do they bother you?


Wolfram - Dec 29, 2005 6:58:17 am PST #539 of 5968
Visilurking

They annoy me like those flashback episodes of Friends or Family Ties, because of the repackaging of old footage to make a "new" type episode. But I understand and sympathize with their goal of catching up new viewers, so I just choose not to watch them.


Jon B. - Dec 29, 2005 7:03:12 am PST #540 of 5968
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Except that this isn't airing in Lost's usual timeslot, and it's not taking the place of the regular episode -- it's in addition to it. As a way to bring in new viewers who might otherwise be intimidated by the extensive backstory, I think it's a great marketing idea.


Laura - Dec 29, 2005 7:43:59 am PST #541 of 5968
Our wings are not tired.

Ah that doesn't bother me then. I get annoyed when it's in place of a new shiny episode.


le nubian - Dec 29, 2005 2:02:50 pm PST #542 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yeah, actually they do bother me. I just don't see the point of them. It isn't like the show is struggling.