Television

This was a much better episode than last week!

"Dead is Dead" caught us up on what's going on in the present day island, which I'd been wondering about.  More importantly, it focused one of my favorite characters, and one of the most interesting on the show, Benjamin Linus.  We got a lot of his background filled in, and learned some interesting things about the island itself.

And now, on to the spoilers....

It's been a while, but I'm back online and doing the blogging thing again, so it's high time I got back to the Lost recaps.  Given how many episodes I've skipped (writing about, not watching; I'm still glued to the set every Wednesday night), I don't think I'll be trying to go back and cover them all.  Instead, I'll just take on the most recent one and go from there.  Hopefully, my new resolve will keep me writing through the end of the season, at least.

And here we go:

Another great episode of Lost tonight!  We're still slowly getting some answers, and tonight I think they gave us one of the biggest reveals of the entire series.  They're also playing things smart, a lot smarter than Heroes did at the time I stopped watching.  The writers don't seem to feel the need to advance every single storyline for every single character in each and every episode.  As I've seen, trying to do that is a sure way to keep any of the storylines from going terribly far in a given week, and without any progress, the show stagnates.  Lost isn't doing that. And now, on to the spoilers....

I almost didn't bother with this post.  As you can see, it's a week overdue, and it's going to be really short.  Heroes, unfortunately, is continuing to disappoint me, and I've found myself with less and less interest in watching it.  Last week, for the very first time, it actually bored me, and I worked on other things while it was on.  I didn't feel the burning need I usually have to discuss the episode afterwards, and certainly didn't really feel like posting a recap. But, I opened this can of worms way back at the beginning of the show, so I feel like I ought to keep on with it, a week later or not.  I'm afraid I'll be watching tonight's episode more out of a sense of obligation than any strong interest.  But since Anaconda 3: The Offspring won't be here for a couple more days, I'll settle in. One spoiler to discuss, let's get it over with....