2 posts tagged “lost”

Season four of Lost came to an end last night and I am pleased with the way that it ended.  I liked the fact that the stories of Desmond, Jin, Michael and Sawyer all had satisfactory endings.  Oh, one might argue that any of them could return in season five, but I think their story arcs have come to an end.  A cameo appearance in a flashback appearance is all that I expect to see of any of them and I am fine with that decision.  Hurley, Jack, Kate, Sayid and Sun are more than enough to keep my interest.  Plus we still have Ben and the last days of John Locke to see.

I suspect that other people still probably felt cheated and wanted more answers from this most recent episode.  There will be much shouting and ranting on message boards as well as some new speculation on what is going to happen next.  Personally I think the season did quite well after suffering from the writers strike.  Besides there are two more seasons of seventeen hours left to complete the tale of Oceanic 815.

I had two informal goals for this year.  One of them was to read more than a book every couple of months and the second was to exercise more than I usually do.  Of those two goals, I seem to be about two thirds of the way on both of them.  I read a book in January and immediately started another one for February, but sabotaged my momentum on the second book by leaving it at work this week.  Sigh.  So to compensate for this mistake I started another book from my pile at home.  I chose Mark Helprin's book Winter's Tale.  The title alone made it an appropriate choice in my mind.  Snow can still be measured in feet instead of inches outside and above the freezing mark on the thermometer has not been a reality in a while.  Now a mere forty pages into the book, I have to say that I made a good choice.  I like the overall cadence of the book and it reminds me how well the English language can be used to describe people and places.

Back to the exercise front, I tend to better at keeping my routine when I am at work than at home.  Having easy access to a room full of exercise equipment is better for me than doing something more basic at home.  I need to work on that side of the task more than I have so far this year if I want to increase my weekly days of exercise from three to five.

I have yet to be disappointed by Lost this season.  Unlike other people who like the program, I do not search the web looking for clues.  Nor do I seek out any rumors and or discussions on as to what might happen next.  I am content to let the story unfold from week to week.  Instant gratification is not a vice of mine.

Having watched about four episodes of the anime series Eureka 7, I have come to the conclusion that season four might not be the best place to start with a program.  I like what I have seen, but I have many questions.  Plus the frenetic action of Eureka 7 seems almost silly in comparison to the internal monologues of Ergo Proxy, where an entire episode took place inside the mind of one character.  I find Re-L to be of the best characters anime characters ever and am very curious as to how her story will come to an end.