What I’ve Gathered about Lost Without Watching It
The series finale of Lost premieres next week. To be honest, I don’t care. I’ve never watched the show, and I probably never would… except for the fact that wherever I ago, people talk about it nonstop. So I’ve promised myself I’ll start watching, but I must wait until after the show ends (similarly to what I did with Friends; the first episode I saw was the finale, and then I watched the rest for the few years it was syndicated on every TV channel known to man). Luckily with finals next week and a full month at home before I work at summer camp, looks like I’ll have my opportunity.
The trustworthy encyclopedia says that amongst the six seasons, there are a total of 121 episodes. Assuming each episode is approximately 44 minutes, that’s 5324 total minutes of Lost I have to watch. For the mathematically challenged (or those who are too lazy to convert that in Google) that is about 3.7 days. And that’s without the 15 to 30 second commercials that Hulu likes to provide. So at some point this summer I’m going to take 4 days out of schedule to watch Lost without stopping. Yeah, right…
Despite never seeing a single episode of this show, I’ve picked up a lot about this show just be hearing conversations about it. And based on what I”ve heard, no wonder it’s such a hit a show. Let me just clarify if I have the general synopsis correctly.
Lost is the main character of his show. His first name is Jacob, but he doesn’t like being called Jacob Lost. He is stuck on an island with a millionaire, his wife, a movie star, the professor and Mary Ann, and the only reason they cannot get off the island is because they would cancel the show. Lost spends his time on the island solving unnecessarily complicated medical mysteries to the chagrin of his companions. Meanwhile he has to battle a severe case of obsessive-compulsion disorder which developed after his wife (who herself suffered from dissociative identity disorder and transformed into one of her “alters” when stressed) mysteriously died. He wants to get back home so he can see his daughter, who attends a high school where everyone sings and throws Slurpees at unpopular kids, as well as her boyfriend, who is both a vampire and a secret CIA agent. Lost would swim back but he fears of something that lives in a pineapple under the sea. Apparently Lost also quantum leaps into multiple universes, one in which he has superpowers, and another where he writes for a sketch comedy show at NBC. He is famous for his catchphrase: “You’re fired.” The show is also known for its framing device in which it portrays all the events in real-time, and a ticking clock helps the audience keep track of what time of day it is.
Tell me if I got the gist of it correctly?
