Thoughts on LOST

After tomorrow night the final season of LOST will be half over. I'm feeling very mixed about this.

Now I have been a hardcore LOST fan since the beginning. But not so intense that I get too wound up in all the mysteries. I don't have to get the questions answered every week. I'm just more along for the ride.

But as this is the last season (and since the writers have known this for the past three years) I'm expecting more excitement. So far, I have gotten that yet. Used to, I would count down the days until LOST came on. Now its like, oh yeah, its Tuesday and LOST is on tonight.

Maybe part of the problem is the flash-sideways. I can't become too invested in them because I don't really know what they are. Is it a daydream all happening in Hurley's head? Is it really how the show and characters end up?

Also, I think the stakes need to be raised. Kill some people off. It's the last season. And no killing the characters you only added this season does not count.

I thought perhaps after the first six episodes the excitement I was looking for would come. It seemed like that was the first act of the season. If that's the case, act two hasn't really raised the game yet.

Oh and another suggestion. Put Desmond on the show. Stat!

I think another thing that would help is if I really knew what some of the characters wanted. What does Smocke (Smoke Monster Locke) really want? Why is Widmore there? You can't trust a thing they say so you never know exactly what there true intentions are.

I'm excited for Tuesday's episode because it is all about SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT Richard! Hopefully we can get the answers we've been waiting for. I'm just afraid the excitement I'm looking for won't come until the last few episodes. And that's still two months away.
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In my own writing news...I've been working on a spec script of the show "The Vampire Diaries" for a while now. With some pressing deadlines coming up for screenwriting programs I'm interested in submitting it in. I've changed my plot about three different times, each time taking it further. Observing a writer's room for the past three months has been a great help. I finally got what I thought was a pretty solid idea put together. Broke the story. Even wrote the first two acts. I had my story set after the last episode that aired, back at the end of February. It seemed like a good break in the story to try to fit my own script.

And the other day, I was reading through the descriptions of the upcoming episodes, since the show comes back this week. And low and behold, in the second episode back, something I was using in my script is in the actual show.

Well, boo. On one hand, it is a good thing. It means I'm on the right track with the show, to have something I wanted to do actually turn up in the story. But now my spec is no good. Oh well, back to the drawing board, as they say.