Everything is LOST
Tomorrow the TV landscape will be dramatically altered. An island will disappear and not even Hiro’s time traveling ability will be able to bring it back. When the next season of TV debuts LOST will be gone along with Heroes and FlashForward. While LOST is finishing its story, Heroes‘ death is definitely one by boredom and FlashForward doesn’t seem to have picked up a solid audience.
FlashForward seemed like ABC’s attempt to fill the void left by LOST. It’s show that started slow but picked up second half of the season. Out of the two shows born out of LOST‘s success I’d rather see this one succeed than V which has been renewed. That isn’t a knock on V. I just find FlashForward more exciting though V‘s subtleties are great. I guess I can always read the book.
I had decided not to watch Heroes next season even if was renewed. The show started strong but fell flat. In the end everyone found their power a burdon. There was no sense of adventure just doom and rehashing Sylar every half season. I’ll miss the excitement of Hiro when the season first started. And I’ll miss Claire’s mixed feelings about her abilities. In the beginning I found it humorous that the guy with the coolest power and one with least repercussions found them to be the biggest burden. By the end Nathan’s burden of being able to flying was the most annoying. I mean, really! If you don’t want to fly just don’t. Stupid.
It is interesting to note that NBC and ABC have picked up two new “super hero” shows. NBC’s The Cape which has a trailer that was so influenced by the recent The Dark Knight movie it feels like a rip off. ABC has picked up No Ordinary Family. The trailer plays as a Modern Family/Parenthood/Fantastic 4 mash up. Michael Chiklis is cast as the lead, a father and a cop with super powers. He plays this more like his role on The Commish than The Shield. The super-speedster wife is played by Dexter‘s now dead wife, Julie Benz. I’m not sure which will make it. I would have bet on Reaper over Chuck a few years ago and I was dead wrong. But if you’d like my bet it is on No Ordinary Family. It looks like it does what The Cape can’t by being lighthearted and what is more lighthearted than a grown man trying to fly? You be the judge (I have placed trailers for the shows at the end of the entry for your viewing enjoyment). I doubt either will replace LOST.
The loss of LOST will be one more greatly felt than any of these shows. With the start of this last season the question from friends and co-workers directed both inwardly and outwardly has been, “What will you do without LOST?” Initially my response was, “Hopefully be satisfied with the ending of a great story.” This was not passionate response most expected from an avid fan. As the days grew closer to the end of the series I realized I was going to miss LOST but my initial answer still stood. I was, excuse me, I am going to miss the sense of community the show created. Gone will be the water cooler talks about parallel universes and time travel with co-workers who would go cross-eyed on the topic if it not had been for LOST. This is something in my life that has been relegated to comic book stores, sci-fi friends, and what I have subjected my family to. The creators of this show tricked the world into watching a sci-fi/fantasy show. “Well played,” I thought. But as time grew even closer to the ending of the show I began to realize that it wasn’t just me, the genre-nerd, that was going to miss the show, but it will my reality-TV watching co-workers, and my sci-fi novice friends. There have been times at work that five of us would sit down and talk about last nights episode. We would talk about Christianity, the negative weight of electrons, Egyptian gods, Hinduism, Nirvana (the band), dead scientists, Kurt Vonnegut, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Narnia, and much more that doesn’t come to mind. The breadth of that discussion and the topic taboos that could have started arguments during a work day could have been very bad. That never happened. That never happened, because LOST is about our similarities. It is about how everything we do. If we read Vonnegut or worship Egyptian gods we are all looking for the same thing. To be found.
If you want to delve into all the intricacies of LOST check out my friends blog.
And if you can’t let go to LOST check out my other friends Facebook group for a sideways Miles and Sawyer spin-off show.
