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?
And the kid?
Pretty smart. Not genius smart, and she hasn't caused any big trouble because she won't behave, nor pulled any solutions out of her triple digit IQ ass.
I need to watch the Lost room, I think. I also need to catch up on Daybreak. And Scrubs. And the Colbert Report.
Hey,
Danny Strong
was on the Season Finale of
Nip/Tuck.
Which was otherwise useless.
Ooh! Daybreak tomorrow. Cool.
The Lost Room is three parts.
Oh! I thought it was another 13-ep series. I saw enough ads for it, you'd think I'd have picked up what the format was at some point. But I have been sleepy. Anyway, cool beans. It looks like they're running it all on Sunday, so I will mark your posts until then.
But hey,
Frankenfish
is on at 3 AM tonight!
I have to go to the Xmas party tomorrow afternoon. Which sucks inherently, and sucks because I actually have a lot of work to do and I'd really, really like to get it all done by Thursday COB so I can take Friday off. I don't think that's going to happen. Although maybe that'll be my excuse to duck out early. Hm.
