6 Years LOST

*Cracks knuckles*

Yeah this blog is pathetic, I know. I've been in the midst of changing jobs, moving, yadda yadda yadda....Anywho, ranting is a good enough reason to log back in and post something. So let's have at it!

I've said this before but I will say it again. Although I am a film student and lover of film and television, I've never been one of those snooty a-holes that turn their nose up to the summer blockbuster and will only watch and supposedly enjoy (even though I think they are pretending to make themselves appear superior) complex, boring, indie films that no one but their moron pretentious a-hole friends and themselves get. Now don't get me wrong. I love the mainstream to the bizarre. As long as I go in semi prepared for it I'm cool. I hate being lured in to what appears to be an action-packed on the edge of your seat film only to find myself dozing in and out. Or going into what appears to be a comedy but then have it be a ball-less, Lifetime special, Nicholas Sparks crap. Like when M*A*S*H, Murphy Brown, and Ellen all got too preachy. I'm all for anti-war messages, breast cancer awareness, and equal rights. But if I wanted to watch that sappy message crap, I wouldn't turn on a sitcom.

Don't get me wrong. I love being very pleasantly surprised by the little known flick that I happen to catch on IFC. That doesn't bother be a bit. I don't mind surprises like that. I welcome the far and few in between shockers that totally alter my perspective. I don't say no to films or TV shows based on popularity, normality (or lack there of). I like everything from Lord of the Rings to Velvet Goldmine. Firefly to Flight of the Conchords.

However...I don't like to be mislead. THAT pisses me off. That being said, by now the title of this post and all that I have posted up until now you should know where this is going. So in case you are one of the poor souls that missed last night's BS fest and still want to wast two hours of your life, turn back now. Otherwise, sit down and shut up. I'm about to begin my mega rant.

WHAT. THE. FUCK. First off, I think Dubya could have scribbled out a better plot line in a coked-up daze then those LOST turds. This is when I really want to have a time traveling DeLorean. Not to go back in time and stop Hitler or any other evil historical figure, but so I can go back to 2004 and warn myself not to bother with that pilot premiering on ABC with Merry in it. That it's not ever going to be fulfilling and that I will only waste hours of my precious youth with a headache trying to figure out what's going on (why watch LOST when you can go to parties for that?).

Like I said, I don't need some masterpiece theater that causes my mind do a 180. I enjoy plot twists like that, but it's not necessarily a requirement. If I enjoy the characters and if I feel like their fake lives on the show were meaningful and have come to a completion, I am happy (even when it's too soon like Stargate: Atlantis or Buffy). See, those aren't any HBO hardcore shows. They were fun. Bad guys vs the good guys with great funny yet complex characters I cared about. They win in the end even though not all make it out, and I'm still left satisfied knowing that the show came full circle. That everything they went thru was for a reason. Understandably, not all shows get the grace of time to tie in all the lose plots. Moonlight for example had a glimmer of a chance to be renewed, so they ended in a semi-cliff hanger. You got some closure, but you were still left wondering what could have been. BTW, way to go you jerk-offs at CBS. Now vampires are the extremely "In" thing and you missed out on this hot trend. AND....AND you had a way hotter vampire than that baggy-eyed bill or "I'm mister smelly with dirty hair and no emotion on my ugly limey (no offense to my UK friends) face". Now you keep tossing poor Alex O'Loughlin back and forth between stupid fails (Yeah, Hawaii 5-0 sounds like a good idea!!) because you know he can keep viewers but you failed to realize that it also takes a good story. LIKE MOONLIGHT!!! I wish he would off give a big ol "EFF YOU" to CBS and went to True Blood. He obviously doesn't shy away from raunchy scenes and we could see him nakey (instead of Bill) once a week! Woo!

Ok....As I was saying, shows like Angel, which I thought REALLY picked up season 5 (HELLO DYNAMIC DUO SPIKE AND ANGEL! Mmmmm....Spike...who's apparently really old and fat now.....so now it's really too late to do anything with him...ok so he was another hot vampire...that was better than stupid boring pointless ugly Edward) found out mid-season they were canceled. WHY DO YOU HATE JOSS SO???? He > LOST tards and a network gave them 6 years. SIX YEARS OF STUPID LIES!!!! Anyways, they had a really spiffy plot line going that you knew was going to lead up to Spike becoming human and Forehead being all pissy about it because he finally realizes he didn't chose to have his soul so he wasn't really a good guy he was just a bed buddy for Buffy until she found her true love Spike...WHO FOUGHT for his soul and was truly a good guy...and was funny and didn't have a big forehead...So yeah they didn't get to wrap that up at all and it ended in one of those "WTF?" scenes...but at least it wasn't Angel waking up to realize he's a mental patient who dreamed this all up. Regardless of how quick they had to wrap it up, they did a better job then those "writers" who knew they had a six LONG years to tie everything together. Seriously, that is some lazy ass writing.

I could go on (another nice rant about another Joss show...), but I won't. I need to get back to the point...which is about the pointless show called LOST. After season one, everyone was speculating how it was going to end. And guess what??? Almost EVERYONE guessed that it would end up they were all dead...but then people starting scoffing because that would be copying The Six Sense, which by the way was Shyamalan's ONLY good film before he hired Mr. I'm a crazy angry man who claims to be a good Catholic but divorces his wife after getting a Russian lady pregnant and who is also anti-Semitic (all around good guy...what happened Mel? You were so sexy in Mad Max and so funny in Lethal Weapon and Maverick!). I think Shyamalan suffered the same disease the writers of LOST have-arrogance. He thought since he came up with such a mind bending ending anything he wrote after that would be pure gold because his mind was just awesome like that. He could literally take a dump on a paper and it would be magical. Nope. You poop on a page and all you have is a shitty page. LAME. SAUCE.

I can just see it now...The LOST writers sitting there all smug after Season 1, just knowing they are going to mess with everyone's mind and cause them to implode upon themselves with the totally awesome ending. And then everyone guesses the predictable ending...so they are like "Crap...I knew we shouldn't have watched The Sixth Sense that night before we wrote the pilot! Now what? We are committed!" "Oh well let's just throw in a bunch of random shit that really won't have anything to do with anything just to throw all those know-it-all viewers off. That will show them. IN YOUR FACE PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMMON SENSE!!!"

Sad thing is, I so wanted this to work. I wanted it to have meaning. I loved the characters and I wanted their journey to be full of purpose. We had been thru so much together. But half way thru, it started to feel like work. I felt committed and obligated to see it thru, just incase it turned around. It could, right? Turning on the show felt labored but what if this time it was different? I mean, after all the excitement, laughter, struggles, tears, and joy, I couldn't just walk away. It had to all be for something. That's why we watch (or read) anything. We want to have a meaningful experience (even if its laughing until you cry and fart jokes or being scared shitless by zombies eating brains). We open our eyes and ears to experience someone's storytelling, hoping that their characters touch us and in the end we leave with something more than we started with, whether it be a smile, tear, or a chuckle. Something that came to a completion (or at least a hint of a sequel) because we cared enough to finish it. But LOST took all of that and crapped on it. It was a wolf in sheep's clothing...or actually a sheep in a wolves clothing...pretending to be a cool and dangerous...and all you get is a white poofy wool sweater.

The whole going to heaven (or whatever) crap would have been lame no matter what (if I wanted to see that moving on to the afterlife crap I would watch Ghost Whisperer) but they could have lessened the blow. If it was about the characters like the writers claim (which you can tell is a lame excuse for lack of plot), you didn't need what appears to be some mega complex Arthur C. Clarke goes ultimate Heroes Journey-Joseph Campbell 6 year story-arch. Do individual, isolated story plots to develop the characters. I'm all for a character driven story, but don't throw in a bunch of random crazy twists you can't possibly explain if that's the case. I mean really? What was with Walt then, huh? Why was Aaron so evil?...Oh and why in the end during the "afterlife" churchy portion was he a baby? Why would he want to be back with the group as a baby? If he wanted to move on with those people, why not move on as an adult who can thank them for all their help they provided when he was an infant even though he COULDN'T REMEMBER IT SO I DOUBT HE WOULD NEED THEM! What was with the polar bear? Why did the island move around and why did Whitmore care? What was the purpose of the time traveling deal? The Darma Initiative? The whole magnetic soul of the island thing? Hell, the whole Jacob thing didn't make sense in the least bit! If it were all leading to something that would be cool, otherwise it's obvious the writers took a bunch of interesting ideas from random comics, shows, and movies and randomly crapped them out throughout the story just because it was "cool", not because it meant anything. Seriously. How did ANY of it tie together? I could go on but I need to stop. LOST already stole 6 years from me. They don't need any more!

Cupcakes Anyone?

Disclaimer: I hope no one takes offense to this. I'm about the most non-homophobic person, but somethings are just funny (like pissing off fan girls). This website I am going to talk had some founders that were gay as well as posters on the message board. And please please please keep in mind I was a stupid teeny (I use to get into the BSB VS Nsync debate). That being said...

Way back when (when I was in HS, that is), I had the most exciting thing happen. I discovered that one of my favorite stories growing up (I practically came out of my mothers womb speaking Elvish) was going to be made into 3 epic films. The movie? LORD OF THE FRICKIN' RINGS! The whole phenomenon that occurred during the filming of those three films was very out of the ordinary (at the time). I could not get enough of the rumors and articles as well as pictures from the set (mostly thanks to Theonering.net). Any pictures of the actors I could find I would download and any time one of them were on a talk show I would record it. I would even, yes, go to the conventions. I would research all about the costumes and have my own made to wear to the premiere. See, there is a reason I am Nerdy Girl!

Anyways, on the other hand (and thanks to Mr. Mel Brooks) I love to make fun of the stuff I love...keep in mind, I was a teenager so making fun of the actors personal lives was enjoyable. Finding photos of them in compromising positions made my friends and I giggle. We would come up with theories of how they were really lovers (hello Dom and Elijah). I also invented a game called "Lord of the Butts" where you had to match up the pictures of naked bums to the Lord of the Rings actors it belonged to. Yeah...

One of my personal favorite sites was VeryVeryGay.com, dedicated to all things proving that Mr. Elijah Wood is in fact, very very gay. Everything from photos or statements that would point to him liking men. I know, immature, but considering some of the people who were posting this stuff were gay themselves, you can see the cheap humor. My favorite part of the site was the forum. And I am fortunate enough, that even 6 years or so later, am still in contact with two of the regular posters. Our favorite things would be to share our own evidence we would find and post them. We also enjoyed torturing the trolls that would post (obviously crazy fan girls) of how we were all stupid and that Elijah was the most manliest man around (as if that has anything to do with sexuality. Yes, gay men can be very manly). Anywho, we loved to torture them and get them so upset they would crash their keyboard over there head and cry. They must have really been under the illusion that they had a chance, because I don't see how someone being gay affects their attractiveness. George Michael was as attractive in the closet as he was out (yeah I said it, I was digging that cheesy Wham look). We also witnessed (don't ask me what started it) a fight between an Australian and a Kiwi. There were dingo and sheep insults being hurled this way and that.

We would share other humorous stories and speculations that did not have anything to do with Elijah...but most of the time, it had to do with him. We also had a sneaking suspicion that Elijah would visit the site. Perhaps it was wishful thinking, but one poster in particular, who went by Woodisgood drew particular attention to our Elijah radar. We would private message one another and speculate if he was in fact Elijah, or even Dominic Monaghan. For no reason at all, tonight I became curious as to what happened to Veryverygay.com and if any of our old postings still lingered. I happened to run across this article someone posted. And it leaves me wondering: Did Elijah ever post there? If any of you ever happen to cross his path...or Dom's for that matter...you may want to ask them...

So in conclusion, I have posted a completely pointless post, but perhaps...well I don't have anything else to say because it was just that, pointless but amusing to me :)

Blood is Good for You

I remember way back in '07, my friend who was then interning at Digital Kitchen told me about this really good TV Pilot they got for this new show that was going to air on HBO. They were to do the opening title sequence for this new vampire TV show that was about vampires living in the open amongst humans because they now had this synthetic blood that the Japanese invented called "True Blood". First off, I've ALWAYS loved anything sci-fi/fantasy related, and I especially love vampires (minus Twilight). It was pretty exciting when I found out she actually got to help out with it and that they had more time to refine it because of the writers strike delaying the premiere. Anyways, from the first episode I was absolutely hooked! Thankfully my mom had signed up for HBO so although I had to wait a few weeks, I was always sure to have a few hours of hot vampire action in my mailbox!

Anyways, I just have to say I am starting to like Eric way more than Bill. Bill hasn't changed at all and he is always too cranky and possessive over Sookie. And really, he isn't that good looking. I wasn't fond of Eric until this last season. He has a very sly sense of humor and once he smiled, I was hooked!

Nerdy Girl VS The Monitor

I write to you know with a bruised breast bone but happily in front of my new 24" monitor! Well, more on that later.

Last Wednesday after work I jetted off to Eastern Washington to spend a few days at my moms so I could visit my family. I took Thurs, Fri, and Monday off the work and the weekend off from the film. I am one who loves to stay busy, but I do need to recoup my strength every once in awhile.

It was nice, let me tell you. I could have spent a few more days since most of Monday was spent driving back over the pass. It was so nice to be able to go to the store with ZERO traffic. The only annoyance was the tourist here and there who would be mindlessly licking an ice cream cone while driving 15 in a 30 MPH zone. Small price to pay I guess. Because it was that time of the month (TMI anyone?), I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to swim...but thanks to some lead bitch who is throwing me off (which IS possible on the pill) I started a little early and ended early...YAY! I don't remember if it was Thursday or Friday, but one of those days was when I hit the beach. Not for too long, but it was long enough to enjoy some sun (which we don't get very much of in Seattle) and get a surprisingly good work out from the swim.

Saturday my mom and I went to Spokane to watch Harry Potter. We had wanted to go to Costco and Red Lobster after wards so we picked the earliest showing (11:30) and still got out of the mall after 2! I didn't think the movie was going to be that long and it sure didn't seem like it was...which is a good thing I guess. After going to Costco and hitting up all the free food samples I could, I still had enough room for Red Lobster. Now this may sound sad, but back when I was still living at home the nearest Red Lobster was in Coeur d'Alene Idaho and now they have a new one across from the mall in Spokane. YAY!!!!!

I also got to pack up a nifty new widescreen monitor my mom and dad got me for an early present. I was so excited to get it hooked up I forwent food when I got back to Seattle to set it up...and some caution. As my Lean Cuisine was beeping in the microwave, I excitedly snapped the huge stem (about the size of a smell tree trunk!) of the monitor into the base and snapped it together...but was unsure of the sturdiness until I heard another click. It was then I noticed a little sliding type switch at the base with an arrow pointing in the opposite direction of where the switch was. I assumed it was to finish locking the stem (where the monitor is hooked on to) to the base...I assumed wrong. Placing the base onto my coffee table and hovering over the stem, I used the back end of the hammer to pull the switch. To my surprise, the stem shot up right into my breast bone, nearly knocking the wind out of me. Of course, my first thought was, "OH SHIT INTERNAL BLEEDING!" But after finishing setting it up and having some dinner, I was sore but I started to think I was going to live. I decided to watch some It's Always Sunny and Heroes on Hulu to test out my new monitor...and it looked good!

So after a long day of traveling, I settled into my bed, still a tiny bit afraid I would bleed during the night and die....I did not, but I sure the hell had a horrid dream. I don't get it-I can watch a very gory horror film and fall asleep to it peacefully (complete with the sounds of torture and flesh hacking) but Harry Potter gave me a nightmare...well it just wasn't Harry Potter. It was a mix between Harry Potter, Heroes, and The Sopranos to be exact. I guess that just proves how nerdy I really am. You know how in dreams to things can be happening at once and still seem normal? I was Harry Potter/Claire hiding from Voldemort/Sylar. I remember hiding in what sorta resembled my moms place but instead of curtains along all the windows that run a long 3 of the walls, there were shades. My mom and someone else were trying to help me hide from Voldemort/Sylar. I knew we all had some sort of power, and what ever power I had hadn't finally been realized yet so they needed to keep me away from the badie. They were hoping for my guardian (who for whatever happened to be Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) to show up because if I was around him, I would be safe from Voldemort/Sylar. WTF? Then I realized not only did my family and friends have superpowers...but we were in the mafia...

I was scared shitless just waiting for Voldemort/ ok let's come up with a better name...Volar! I was just waiting for Volar to come at any moment and I knew if he found me, there wouldn't be much I could do. Then the blinds started to open and my mom rushed in, knowing it was Volar. No, it was my dad. So anyways they were trying to rush me away telling me I needed to find whoever Silvio was and giving me instructions as to what I needed to do next to defeat Volar. And there you have it. I am the biggest nerd out there. I awoke at 3 am in a cold sweat not sure of where I was or if I was still dreaming.

In other news, the plants I was just sure was going to die after my extended weekend where just as perky as ever!