Totally LOST, totally lost

Hey guys:

 

Did you enjoy the opening of the season? We did. Well, I did, but I didn't ask John or Andrew about it yet. I'm sure Andrew liked it. John's moved six apartments in the past three days or so, so he's been occupied and probably hasn't seen it yet. I have only one thing to say: Why did the flight split in two? Has no one questioned this yet? If Desmond's magnetic magic only attracted the plane to the Island faster, WHY two parts? There had to be forces pulling at either end of the plane for that. So are there two nexii to this weird electromagic? (Note, I know it HAPPENED, doi, we know the back of the plane blew off in season one, and knew it split around season two-ish...what I want to know is WHY. It's just not been discussed enough around my sphere, which admittedly is not very wide. A crash is one thing; cracking like an egg is quite another. It could have crashed in any machination of ways - split down the middle? Why? Why were there two forces, seems to be the question, pulling them in opposite directions?)

 

Anyway: As you've probably gleaned, we didn't watch it together, which only means one thing: We didn't record. And we're not going to.

 

We're sorry, guys. Totally LOST is dead. Done. Gone. Bye. We did have fun while we were doing it, but it became a real hassle to align everyone's schedules to watch it together, and then we were suddenly putting way too much effort into a series that we don't have time to put way too much effort into. We're busy people to begin with, and the whole idea of this show (which some unexcusably rude people missed, then had the irony to call others stupid in the comments) was that we would be laid back about it, won't try and read all the theories, would experience it as pure audience members. If that made us seem so "dim," sorry. Like it or not, and no matter who the writers actually write it for, LOST is indeed for people who can watch it in a one-hour-per-week commitment. The show is in real danger of alienating new audiences who can't snap on to all the lore and theories, who've never looked it up on the internet, and who shouldn't have to. If they're requiring background reading material for people's evening entertainment they're going to go downhill VERY fast. I'm willing to bet that 90 percent or more of audience members barely remember the name of the Hanso foundation, have never heard of the Lost Experience outside of those weird commercials, and think "Bad Twin" is the name of a 1970s "Days of Our Lives" episode. The idea behind Totally LOST was that we were that viewer, because an hour a week was all we could give.

 

But guys. It turned quickly into five hours a week, between planning and scheduling and recording. And, as we said so plainly, none of us has that to give. And we do have Potter podcasts to take care of, and prioritize. And we want to just sit back and watch the show, and be regular viewers. If the test here was whether one can be a regular viewer of something one podcasts about, the answer is probably no.

 

This blog will stay up, probably, and we might come here and squeal as the major revelations come through this year. Thanks to the 10,000 listeners, 9,950 of whom we never thought would show up. If we thought we could keep it up, we would. The truth is, I had a better time watching the opening of the show this season than I did most of last season, because I didn't have to worry about anything but watching.

 

So who should you listen to instead of us? If you don't already, The LOST podcast with Jay and Jack: They are the collective bomb, those tow, and nice to boot.

Everyone at the Totally LOST Fan Forums, you were way too nice to us all the time!

And to everyone over at the Thanks, guys! See you when Benry Gale gets his face chewed off, because that'll be cause for some celebration!

Later peeps,
Melissa