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The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen LOST

Hi.  As you can probably tell from the totally sweet title of this blog, I have never seen LOST.  The final season starts tonight.  I thought I would watch the final 12 episodes even though I have very little knowledge of what is happening.  Since blogging is the kewlest, you get to read my interpretation of what is happening on a potentially confusing show. Continue reading

via neverseenlost.wordpress.com

As the excerpt above describes, Never Seen Lost is a blog by someone who has not seen any previous episodes of the show and has dived straight into season six. As it is, it's hard to keep track of the show for those watching it from the beginning.

His episode recaps are great fun to read though. And his illustrations are his sketches of Lost characters because he's made it a point to not google for back story or images. [Those who've not watched the show, you can safely ignore this site because it's loaded with spoilers. Obviously.]

Speaking of episode recaps, if you are a big fan of the show, I hope you are reading the epic 6-7 page episode recaps by Jeff Jensen, of Entertainment Weekly. If not, here you go.

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Spartacus: Blood and Sand

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I was drawn to this show when I chanced upon its huge promo poster on my Netflix instant streaming queue. Being a sucker for period dramas, especially those that are serialized and set in Rome or Greece, I thought I'd give it a shot.

The show is three episodes in [airs Fridays on Starz] but, boy, what a let down!

It feels as if the director/producer watched '300' and thought, "Wow! If I give a dusty tinge to the background, throw in stylishly copious amounts of blood, I can make a wafer thin plot look awesome. Oh, and let me try and convince Lucy Lawless to do this."

Also, since this is period drama set in ancient Rome, he seems to have thought up all the sexually-charged stereotypes possible, magnified it several-fold, and indulged in showing computer-generated blood-spillage painting modern art on the screen -- just so it looks '300'-like.

Just think '300' on steroids -- the kind that makes you look good, but eventually is bound to be your undoing -- seasoned with the worst dialogues of 'Gladiator'. And you have this abomination.

But since I am currently on the look out for guilty pleasure television, I might actually watch this while gritting my teeth through some godawful conversations that are supposed to pass for 'dialogues'.

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