An open letter to no one in particular
Who left two comments on recent post complaining about Lost.
Shut up. Just, shut the hell up.
Right. Well, since you told me to shut up on my very own blog, but without leaving even an email account, I will totally listen to you.
Are you seriously complaining about hair color and strong women characters?
I am complaining about it, yes. Seriously? It’s a tv show. Are you seriously complaining about a blog post about a television show?
I’ve never been to your blog before, i don’t know who you are, in fact I’ve only came here cause it was one of the first blogs that showed up when I searched for the word “lost”, and i’m gonna take a wild guess that you’re a women, and an insecure one at that. I’m sorry that you might not have strong grasp on your life, but just let the show be.
So, I’m confused, is it that if I dislike parts of a show, I mustn’t like myself? Or is it that if I feel that they’ve made all the women on the show stupid that I worry I’m stupid? Not really. Or that I figure I couldn’t track people, or fight well? I *know* I couldn’t do that. But the tv show is fiction, not a story about me, so it doesn’t matter what I can do.
It’s a great show, and you know it.
No, it’s not. It’s a fun show, and it’s a watchable show, and it keeps you curious. But it is not a great show.
You wonder get so worked up about it if you didn’t like the show in the first place.
Well, sure I like it, or parts of it. But those are being overshadowed by the parts I *dislike*.
No one except bored internet roamers are gonna read this, so don’t think commits actually mean anything.
And therefore you are bothering to comment why, oh bored internet roamer?
The producers and writers know what they are doing, even if you can’t figure it out.
No, they don’t. Seriously, it’s been obvious from the first season that they don’t have a really good plan for the show. Which is — whatever, it was a gamble at first,, but by season 3, you should have a well-worked out plan for where to go and know how to deal with cliffhangers. Plus, adequate characterisation and a plot that’s a bit less jerry-rigged.
So stop worrying about the show, and worry about yourself. Wow i hate you
Yes. I am certainly worried since you, total stranger, claim to hate me on the basis of one post where I complain about a tv show you like.
Sincerely,
wolfa
October 13th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
No one in particular is a presumptuous asshole. I just wish that sentence were true under the de dicto reading.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
It’s hard to take seriously anybody who can’t communicate in a grammatically correct fashion. That having been said, I’m sorry you hate yourself so much. Really, you’re not so bad.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Gee! Talk about pathetic fannish-ness. I may be nuts for BSG but you’ll never see me confusing Ron Moore with the gods of entertainment or telling people who express some criticisms of the show that they are insecure, ignorant and hateful!
I’m glad this person has never had cause to hear my opinion of Lost which can be summed up in one word: yawn.
October 13th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Q, heh. Though if it were, what would I bitch about?
Sheepish, nor actually read what I wrote.
Sheesh, Ancarett. If you don’t like Lost, you must be an insecure woman with a weak grasp on your life.
October 13th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
People who criticize BSG are insecure, ignorant, and hateful.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Regarding Lost’s roadmap, or lack thereof, there’s this piece from Entertainment Weekly by Stephen King after sitting down with the writers. The salient quote being: What was particularly gratifying — to me and, I’d venture, to viewers who want Lost to continue to excel — was to find that Abrams, Lindelof, and Cuse are your basic intuition fliers, mostly disdaining instruments; they favor the old seat-of-the-pants method when it comes to getting home.
This doesn’t mean that they don’t know where they’re going. I sort of think they do. They’re letting it come to them a little at a time, though, and that’s what keeps Lost fresh. If you didn’t see Libby’s death coming, join the club. Neither did I. Because, I’d argue, neither did they.
I don’t really understand how he fails to see the problem with that.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Something happened to my italics in that second paragraph. Last line is mine.
October 13th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
As for me, I am writing a comment about a blog post complaining about a comment complaining about a blog post complaining about a tv show I have never seen. Whattayamean I have no life? I have a net connection don’t I??? At least I don’t waste my time watching television…. :>
October 14th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Wolfa, hah! Hah! Hah hah hah hah.
You should see what some of my fellow BSG fans have called me: the terms thrown at me in one particular post included “mean”, “petty” and “stupid”. So you’re in good company, overall!
Cougar Allen, how very meta of you. Now go turn on the TV before your brain rots!
October 14th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Seriously. I enjoy Lost, but I am enjoying it less and less every week. (I might be willing to continue just for the scenery, to tell the truth.) And that article is scary, Sheepish. Though I’m with them about concluding rather than hastily finishing when they get cancelled.
Ancarett, to tell the truth, I have *never even seen* BSG. Eventually.
October 15th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
“People who criticize BSG are insecure, ignorant, and hateful.”
Amen. And Wolfa, you are missing the best show on TV in BSG.
October 18th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Way late for this topic, but I just read that Lost will start with six new episodes before going on a thirteen-week hiatus and concluding the season with no repeats starting in February. Four months should give me plenty of time to forget all the tiny little details and tantalizing clues that used to make the show intriguing. Good job, ABC schedulers.