Promo trailer for next episode of Lost (Season 5, Episode 6), titled ‘316′.

Lost is back and boy did it return in style.  Well, that’s if you have a brain.  It seems Lost’s ratings have suffered and some are saying the poor ratings relate to the series displaying its sci-fi roots more than ever before. 

If Lost is suffering because more of its sci-fi foundations are beginning to emerge, then I call ‘retard’ to those who are tuning out.  The opener of the season, Because You Left, was simply an hour of superb story telling, drama, action, and mystery.  It delved more into the time travel aspect of the series than ever before, but it did so in perfect style.  The complexities of time travel as story line is often screwed up but not so in Lost – at least so far anyway.  In fact, Lost is delivering a take on time travel that appears to be unlike any other before it.    In a world of remakes and reboots a little creative imagination is a breath of fresh air.

Because You Left might have dropped on ratings but it certainly wasn’t a result of a drop in quality.  If anything the new season has opened with improved quality by having less flash backs/flash forwards and with a faster paced accelerating story.  The acting was superb, the storyline just as superb, and well I could go on – but a 9.9 rating on the IMDB really says it all. Read the rest of this entry »

Lost is an awesome series for many reasons.  Perhaps one of the best things about the series is the way in which it has secretly created more interest in science fiction.  I say ’secretly’ because even after such things as monsters, time travel and vanishing islands have featured in the series many people still don’t acknowledge Lost is a sci-fi story.

It’s amusing to see Lost rope in many traditional sci-fi haters without them knowing it.  Because the series places heavy emphasis on character development, it has managed to successfully mask its science fiction foundation under the ‘mainstream’ appeal of its character driven drama.  By doing so it has effectively nudged potential new sci-fi fans into taking baby steps towards a love of the genre where, ironically, they will discover all good sci-fi is supported by interesting and emotionally involving characters.

Speaking of ‘good’ things, all good things must come to an end and Lost is no different.  Though it may seem like it just goes on and on, Lost is in fact a plot driven story that has a beginning, middle, and a definite end.  Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the latest trailer to the new season of Lost which gets underway on January 21st.