The Sofa of Reasonable Comfort

For the record:  THAT is how you end a series.  Lost, you did us proud.  I'm in tears, in the best possible way.  It's been a great ride and I am thrilled to have been along.

Now can we please have that Sawyer-Miles cop drama spinoff?

I've had 24 hours to reflect on what I think about last night's episode.

( In the event that you think my two line reaction might be spoilery. )

Pardon my expletive, but that was necessary.  I'm starting to get it.  This episode, without being in any way spoilery for those of you who haven't yet seen it, was very intricate and will require another viewing.  Or two.

I cannot believe there are only five episodes left.

I am annoyed.

I watched 22 episodes of Lost in almost exactly eight days. I'm going to need to mull over the season in its entirety for a couple of days to let it process before the premiere on Thursday.

I've also spent a lot of quality time with ABC's HD streaming and while it's not bad, it's not perfect either. Hulu is much, much better. My major annoyances: not being able to resize the window to my liking and the commercials basically pausing so you have to deliberately click to continue. Granted, Hulu is still in an invite-only beta, but they seem to be giving out invites quickly enough if you sign up for one.


On a completely unrelated note -- new mood theme courtesy of larissa_j . It's very pretty.

When I said I was going to binge-watch Lost, I wasn't kidding.  I'm on episode 3-11, Enter 77.  I'll finish it and probably another tonight.

Spoiler-free impressions so far.  The first six episodes of the fall mini-season, the only ones I watched last year, weren't as frustrating as I remember them being.  Maybe that's because I didn't have to wait a week between each one.  I think this show is one that lends itself to continuous watching like this -- one episode flows pretty neatly into another.

Basically, it's still Lost, with abundant WTF? moments (although none quite as startling as the original "WTF, polar bear?" moment).  I did have a moment when I was thrown totally out of the show -- a can't-miss it closeup of Kate's freshly shaved armpit.  Uh, no.  They've done a good job of making sure everyone looks a little stinky without being horrible about it, but seriously.

There's not a character on the show anymore who really annoys the crap out of me -- thankfully, they've all gotten killed.  This show and Heroes do a pretty decent job of continually thinning the herd of characters when it gets too unwieldy.  Lost happily tends to off the ones I don't like.

And I'm not sure if it's me, or is Naveen Andrews even prettier this season?

Anyway, back to the grind.