Dying proof? What the hell's wrong with me. I post a beginning - a middle - and just an end? Bus life. Change in DVR habits. Change in life. No excuse. Maybe TV's just bored me. No. I think I just have a bit more of a life now. Okay. Onto the Cool Crowd.

Official goodbyes:
Heroes
Oh how the strong have weakened and how the wayward have completely lost existence. Heroes was never a perfect show. I didn't love it in it's first half of the premiere (and only good) season. It picked up tremendously in the second half. The second season was hated more than I thought it deserved. Season 3 started out blasting and the shots proved to be blanks.

I'm tired of complaining and lamenting about this show. What. A. Waste.

Eli Stone
This bubble show got burst - and before it finished, it already started to fizzle. Nothing else to say. I'll buy the first season in the future when it's on sale for $10 and enjoy it. I'll just forget most of Season 2.

BSG
They had a plan. And the magnum opus of a plan has been completed. I think this baby needs it's own special treatment. I love BSG. I miss BSG for the virtue that there will be no more new stories.

Flight of the Conchords
How's this for a terrible second season... (I couldn't say that outloud until now.. it hurt too much) I have 2 or 3 episodes left on my DVR and have found no real motivation to watch them.

NOW... onto the ongoings and more general happiness.

LOST
Time travel? Oh no. Time travel? OH. no. Time travel? OH HELL NO.

With that said, the narrative qualities of LOST still persist. The play on flashbacks makes sense now - now that they Losties are back on the island and are having to deal with the years they were off the island since they left. Plus, there are flashbacks for the Losties that stayed on the island and lived on the the island before the ones that left came back. Confused? You should be! I don't think LOST is meant to make sense - hence LOST. If it doesn't make sense for the charaters - it shouldn't be clear to us, as the viewers.

What LOST always has done well is depict complex characters with complex pasts and complex paths towards resolution. How the will be resolved we can't really tell. But, I think LOST fans, like myself, scoff at the non-fans' disbelief in our belief. It's similar to wrestling. We know it's preposterous. We know it's ridiculous. But we care, and that's all that matters.

And that is.. ALL that matters. Despite an unevenness of screen time and plot time, we are hanging on to the lives of our Losties because the writers have developed great stories to tell. The quality of the stories have ebbed an flowed this season, but it's okay. LOST is still quality fare that I get excited to watch each week.

Bones
Bones is what we expect it to be. (Thanks Denny Green!) It's a quick procedural with twists and turns and an all too quickly resolved mystery. But that's not why I watch the show. Like LOST, I watch this show for the characters - more than the plot or overall narrative. But, they have interesting narratives his season:

Hodgins and Angela have had to deal with their break up.
The whole team had to heal from Zack's transgression. Hodgins more so.
Bones has been trying to learn more about humanity.
Booth is a willing teacher and best friend.
Sweets has been trying to keep everything together.
The new squint per episode crew have been trying to establish themselves in the lab and in the very strange work environment at the Jeffersonian.

Of course, the relationship between Bones and Booth drive this show - fitting since many of their most poignant conversations happen in Booth's SUV as they drive around to different locations to track down the mystery in the bones.

Some shows have been bogged down with some subplots (the main plots of the mysteries), but the humor and heart of the show remain the strengths and the most consistent elements of the show.

I love it. The season finale next week will be OFF the HOOK.

*** More later...

posted by breakfast boy@ 8:56 AM