I'm kind of surprised that I haven't written anything about Lost yet this season. It's so good!! I just finished reading this post from probably one of the best Lost blogs that I've come across. Thanks Casey. You need to check it out. Plus, I've recently read that Lost will probably produce five more episodes to add to this season's eight since it looks like the writers' strike it about to end. Phew!
Lost: Confirmed Dead
February 8th, 2008: Posted by J. WoodNothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
—Michael Faraday, 1849
"Confirmed Dead" has more than enough red-meat new material to keep the confirmed audience digging, and probably just enough to make the unconfirmed even less satisfied with the storyline (and we may hear from them in the comments — let 'em fly!). We have another group of newly-introduced characters (I'm hearing "Freighties"), a return to flashbacks, some slight shifts in the power balance, the question of the plane at the bottom of the Sunda Trench, and a favorite of mine, the oopart (more on that in a minute).
There's a few in the press who get advanced copies of episodes and get the chance to work on some of the intricacies so they can post a story with some decent analysis quickly after airing. This is good and bad; it means that the audience will have plenty to hang a discussion on come the next day, but it also means many of the references are already smartly teased out by mid-morning (I'm looking at you, Doc Jensen). The Freighter Four, for instance, bear some not-too-subtle similarities to the Fantastic Four of Marvel Comics. Lost has been doing some tie-in work with Marvel, and this episode was written by none other than Brian Vaughan, whose own work in comics is well worth looking into (see his Y: The Last Man series). It's probably worth mentioning the connections, and although this may be old news to many by now, let's see what we can pull from them:
More.
2 comments:
Lost is freaking nuts. I can't believe how much thought they actually put into this show. It's amazing that the whole world isn't as enamored with the concept as I am. Good find on the blog.
I totally agree. The more I watched 'Lost' the more I think that the writers are absolute geniuses. Of course, they may make the whole series suck by the end if they don't explain everything in its entirety. But I'm hopeful...
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