I don't know when they're going to run the first episode of The Lost Room again-- it'll probably run in full this weekend, I'm guessing. It is six hours. I'm also guessing there's a pilot in there somewhere for a series without the stars of the mini.

I am curious about the mythology for the whole thing, but aside from the need for the big picture I'm enjoying the problemsolving that's going on.

See, I can't fully explain it, but I LOVE what they've done about the master concepts for the show-- it's a creative and satisfying explanation-- Jaybrams WISHES he could have had something like this for Alias and Chris Carter is gently weeping. And I'm not even sure it's going to be the right one, but it's ambitious, has tons of potential, and is, again, really creative. And I can't explain just how satisfying it is to have that explanation right up front; avoiding hiding the ball for dramatic effect makes me so pleased. As you probably know from improv, holding back an explanation for something makes it almost impossible to satisfy, but is much easier to write (have I mentioned how much this ISN'T like Lost?). OK, gotta get to watching part 2.

ETA:

I missed the first half hour of Lost Room. How did the cop/daughter discover it to begin with? I came in when she put the teddy bear inside.

Cop was called in to investigate a murder scene where the Weasel had exploded some people who were involved in a purchase of the key for $2MM. (Admittedly I wasn't paying complete attention at this point.) Somehow he found someone who was at the scene of the purchase, who was later killed, and passed the key onto the cop before he died. He left the key out and his daughter started playing with it.

House: This cop needs to find himself with a mysterious disease. I am very tired of this storyline, but I'm looking forward to the trial. Hell, House is probably going to pull himself out of the pit all by himself.

And Cameron continues to need slapped.

And I can't explain just how satisfying it is to have that explanation right up front; avoiding hiding the ball for dramatic effect makes me so pleased.

I will freely admit my attention span is for shit, and I have been writing Christmas cards while watching both nights, but I'm still waiting for the explanation. I mean, I know there are various theories, held by various people, but did I miss where we already know the origin of the room, or how the objects gained their powers? I'm confused. (Which is not unusual.)

I'm so glad others are watching, too!

There seem to be two popular theories, that it involves a way to communicate with god, or the one I am praising, the idea that God died in that room, and his powers were distributed among the objects. IIRC.

ETA: these may be the theories you heard of; there's no evidence either way.

Okay, those are the two theories I know -- I thought I missed where we knew one of them was the actual answer. I'm with you, though -- I *love* the theory you love. So interesting.

One of the things that is compelling about Lost Room and its mythos is that there are theories. It's not a 22 episode arc where there's time for Internet geeks to get together and make guesses--and I don't think that's a bad thing. There are events in the show, and theories within the show, which is only natural. Internet geeks aren't the only people that make things up.

You know what there's a lot of? Communication. It's not one of those shows (and Heroes is pretty free of this too) where you're left irritated that people just hadn't shared or explained or contradicted. They're not caught up with that soap opera stutter/silence that you see so often.

Also, the viewpoint character has about the knowledgebase (effectively) of the viewer. So problems aren't solved with his extensive knowledge of biotech, or anything.

You can play along at home.

So problems aren't solved with his extensive knowledge of biotech, or anything.

I've been reading too much Overheard in NY--I read this as his extensive knowledge of bee-yotch. And I WORK AT A BIOTECH COMPANY.

Totally, ita.

I also love the fact that Joe, or whoever, can prove what he's talking about, so there's none of that "But they'll think I'm insane!" bullshit going on. He found the key, he used it, he boggled, he showed Lou -- and they went to a Penn State game. I loved that.

I do think this could have been a decent full-season series, though. We could learn more about Joe, about Jennifer, all of the key players. Maybe it couldn't have gone more than one season, but this is one show I'd actually like more of, based on what I've seen.

Hmmm. Looks like they are running Lost Room straight through on Sunday. It was my plan to watch Monday, but stuff happened, and watching didn't. Yay for SciFi and their repeaty nature.

AmyLiz, you still around?