I Must've Got Lost

This is a title from The J. Geils Band that's vintage early 1970's. I considered using Commander Cody's " Lost In The Ozone Again" but I'm not sure that he wrote that tune, so I stuck with a sure thing. The local Classic Rock station in New York, does a feature called, " The Three At Three" where they play three songs with a common thread and you have to figure out what it is. Today, May 24th, 2010, Ken Dashow used the tune I wracked my brain deciding on, so I lose points for "originality". Yesterday the 23rd was the final episode of the ABC TV series "Lost".
J. Geils aside, I liked "Lost" but I was confused by it. Now I no longer have to think about it.

It started with a plane crash on an undiscovered Island, and the survivors go through a series of bizarre encounters, that got increasingly strange. The coolness factor was high, but that opened it up to a lot of cop-out reasons for what was going on, the final cop-out being the ending. For six seasons one was left wondering how things would turn out, and the explanation was low on the creativity scale, despite being well done and tactfully presented. I wasn't impressed. The ending of " The Sopranos" was harshly criticized by most viewers, but I found it less annoying than what "Lost" fed us. Characters would escape the island, then somehow either return or get killed due to something that resulted from their being on that weird, mysterious chunk of earth. Characters fell in love, hated each other, cured themselves of life influencing disabilities or diseases, and it all seemed to be leading up to some all-encompassing revelation. That reveallation was...they were already dead. None survived the plane crash, so how was it that new characters could come and go in this make-believe afterlife? Why were there alternative timelines and parallell universes if the one they were a part of had ceased to be? It's easy, make up a cop-out ending and voila, presto, abra cadabra, everything is cool. If that doesn't spell " Cop-Out" I don't know what does.

In other network TV endings, tonight, May 24th is the final episode of the Keifer Sutherland series, "24". This is a show that has gone way past it's prime and needs to end, because it has crossed the line of entertaining into the realm of 'incredibly preposterous'. It is due for a decent burial, although there is now talk of a "24" movie. I can't see that happening. Who would sit in a theater for 24 hours, or go to twelve two hour epsiodes to see how it ends, especially at todays movie prices? So what concept is going to play out in that case? The world is full of talented, creative writers, why aren't any of them writing for the television shows that I watch? The one exception is " 30 Rock", but that's a comedy and the idiocy of the dramas has made them more humorous than the sit-coms.