Lost (How did ABC do this to me?)

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(no spoilers, please)

We just finished the 1st 4 episodes of Season two of Lost, and disks 2&3 are were shipped today (Netflix) so we should be done soon, by which point spring cleaning will be desperately needed, due to the unprecedented neglect we've shown our apartment!

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[forestfire]

Television has come a long way as an art form. I watched the first two Seasons of Lost on DVD and I much preferred being able to watch it daily at my pace to having it drawn out over a week, with weak episodes meaning further delay prior to plot advancement and character development.

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Oh, definitely. If I had gotten into it on telly, I probably would have lost interest (haha) due to some of the slow episodes, and missed some nights because I forget about the day of the week a lot...at least once I'm at home.

I'm just worried because "my pace" is so damn ravenous.

Have you been watching it on Wednesdays for Season 3, or did you start too late? We're going to wait for Season 3 on DVD.

[forestfire]

We don't have cable (I know we are neantherthals) so we bought the season on itunes. You can do this at any point.

[napalmmk9]

Hrm? It's ABC, that shouldn't be a cable channel. Are you not able to get ABC over rabbit-ears broadcast?

[forestfire]

I don't get any channels, but I've also never even considered making an attempt to get channels. Sitting down and watching tv isn't something that even occurs to me so it might be possible to buy some kind of antenna or something.

[leveldeaded]

awesome. very smart. I will investigate.

[moominmuppet]

I'm just worried because "my pace" is so damn ravenous.

*nod* Mine is too. I really like to immerse myself in worlds; I always have. It used to be almost exclusively books and book series, now it's a split between books and TV.

Oddly, TV has been partially responsible for the broadening of my reading tastes and political awareness. When I was younger, I read SF/F almost to the exclusion of anything else. Now interviews on the Daily Show result in books getting added to my list quite frequently. And my news reading helps give context to the humor on TDS and TCR.

What I really love about TV these days, though, and one of the reasons I'd never go back to not having a DVR, is that I'm not wasting hours watching "whatever is on". At least if I'm wasting time, I'm wasting it watching what I want to, and what interests and (maybe even) educates me.

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I'm glad you brought the "Whatever Is On" business up, because that's when it truly becomes an apathy-generating enterprise. I notice myself becoming irritated more easily if I let that happen. And after watching raptly for 2 hours, it's too easy to slip into WIO mode. The one thing that helps, I guess, is that it's usually after Jonathan gets home from work (after 11) that we even start watching, so by 1 AM it's really only re-runs of AC360 and Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Haha. I have always been very amused by the idea of a "Cartoon Network"...as if they could all conect somehow...after being isolated on their own shows for so long.

[moominmuppet]

It'd be cartoon chaos!! Oh noes!

[leveldeaded]

awesome icon! i laugh!