Lost Finally Lives Up To Its Name

May 26, 2010 · Posted in General · 3 Comments 

Lost finally lived up to its name with its finale, and lost me. (And if you haven’t seen the finale, spoilers ahead, so be warned.)

The finale has two essentially separate and unconnected storylines, so I’ll complain about both separately.

The “island” storyline turned out to be rather boring and low-key, and didn’t much hold my attention or reward me for all my years of watching. Except Jack died, which was cool. And Hugo and Ben teamed up to run the island… I can only assume they built a line of chicken joints. Which would have been cool, had they actually shown it.

But the “sideverse” storyline — that really just pissed me off. So, apparently, this entire season the sideverse we’ve been emotionally investing in turns out to be limbo. A big-ass shared dream where the Losties go to wait to be reunited after death. Okay, interesting concept, I’ll give ya that — but what exactly did it have to do with the island? It was the most generic ending ever, really just an excuse to get all the characters together and hug each other. You could have had the same ending for any other show — hey, look, all our characters died eventually and most had shitty lives, but it’s okay ’cause they reunited at death, here’s a happy ending for ya. (In fact, wasn’t that the end of Titanic?) Just seemed cheap and lazy and pandering — like the writers, pardon the pun, got lost on the way to a real ending and copped out.

So, color me disappointed.

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Iron Man 2 and All the Other Crap

May 18, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 

When last we blogged… I had not seen Iron Man 2. Saw it the weekend before last. It was decent — not as good as the first one, which had the benefit of being a breath of fresh air — but long. About 20 minutes too long. The climatic fight was also a bit of a letdown — again, the action happened at night, so it was hard to see what was going on. The race track fight earlier in the film looked sharp, and that was during the day, so don’t know why they decided every other fight in the movie had to be shot in the dark. Maybe too many cartoons running around in the daylight would have exposed them for what they were. Anyway, worth seeing for Downey junior’s performance, and Scarlett Johansson in a jumpsuit.

Also worth seeing — by a far larger margin: Kick Ass. Which, was, ahem, kick-ass.

Haven’t see Robin Hood, and probably won’t until it comes out on vid. It just hasn’t struck me as a need-to-see, even with Ridley Scott at the helm.

Arkham Polytech: Continues, three strips a week. Quite enjoying it, still working on improving the art.

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