{"id":410,"date":"2010-04-04T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-04-05T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:57:54","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t really watch “regular” TV.\u00a0 A lot of people say that. \u00a0I’m not sure why.\u00a0 But what most of them really mean is “I don’t always<\/em> watch all my favorite shows and sit on the couch hours waiting for them to come on”\u00a0 Most of the popular shows like American Idle or Dancing with the Stars or\u00a0 . . . . I have never seen.\u00a0 Perhaps a few min while someone else was watching but never even 1 whole episode.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I understand why most people watch.\u00a0 It’s like standing in line at the grocery store and not <\/em>reading the tabloid covers, it’s almost impossible.\u00a0 TV can suck you in with the gravitational pull of a black hole.\u00a0 I suspect even blind people who are standing in the room with Oprah playing on the tube are at first distracted then enthralled by the pseudo reality show.<\/p>\n

So why am I watching Lost?\u00a0 Lost is one of those shows that everyone was watching that I had never seen for the first 5 years of it’s existence.\u00a0 Even the other members of my household weren’t regular viewers (I am the only one with the no-TV gene in my family), I am not sure why.\u00a0 Well, this past Christmas my wife of 78 years gave us a box set of Lost seasons 1-5.\u00a0 She though we could watch them together and catch up with the rest of the world on Lost pop culture.\u00a0 Since they came on DVD maybe she thought I could accept them as movies\u00a0with sequels,\u00a0because I like movies.<\/p>\n

Over the Christmas break we started watching them.\u00a0 All of us, but not together.\u00a0 The episodes were in 40 min chunks, no commercials and we could watch as many or as few as we liked.\u00a0 Linda and I would watch 2-4 episodes per sitting and we might do this once or twice a week.\u00a0 Katie was on a more accelerated schedule.\u00a0 Sarah was watching so many at a time we were concerned about a Lost induced coma.\u00a0 When the kids went back to school they had to feed their habit online, Hulu and ABC.<\/p>\n

One of the downsides to us all watching at different times was, we couldn’t talk about it.\u00a0 We were all at different points in the stor\"\"<\/a>y, so inter-family Lost discussions were taboo.\u00a0 But the problem was bigger than that.\u00a0 The new and final\u00a0season was about to start, Lost was everywhere!\u00a0 We wern’t ready.\u00a0 Shield your eyes!\u00a0 Hold your ears!\u00a0 We now lived in fear, not that the Others would take us but that a spoiler would jump out in front of us.<\/p>\n

Sarah is completely caught up, Katie is somewhere in season 6, Linda and I are almost caught up and watching them on Tivo.\u00a0 We don’t want to fully catch up because we enjoy watching more than one at a time so we must live in the danger zone a little longer.\u00a0 If I mention to someone I am watching Lost, do you know what the first thing they say is?\u00a0 “Want to hear my theory on what is really happening?”\u00a0 Everyone has one.\u00a0 Now days I say “sure” because I am mostly caught up, they are going to tell me anyway\u00a0and it makes them happy.\u00a0 But it’s all for entertainment value because I know what is really<\/em> going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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