Lost in Lost (and in GR)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Daniel Zalewski on the TV-series Lost:

"I am equally unsympathetic to the complaint that the show's plot -- proudly 
loopy since the first episode -- has become too byzantine. This is like 
complaining that "Bleak House" is too long, or "Scarface" too violent. The 
creators of "Lost" are consciously, and comically, taking the conspiracy 
genre to an absurd extreme. ("The X-Files," once pummeled for its burdensome 
"mythology," seems quaint by comparison.) Intricacy is one of "Lost's" 
deepest pleasures. Indeed, the baroque, flashback-laden structure of the 
show probably wouldn't have been viable before the advent of the Web, TiVo 
and high-definition screens. Many moments of the show are now clearly 
designed with TiVo (or the Internet screen capture) in mind -- for example, 
the split-second confirmation, two weeks ago, that "Jacob" is not entirely a 
figment of Ben's imagination. Such stunts annoy more casual viewers, but 
devoted fans love that "Lost" rewards such fetishistic attention. No 
cultural creation since "Gravity's Rainbow" has occasioned this much 
feverish annotation; the Web site Lostpedia.com contains more than 3,000 
pages."

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2007/05/23/lost/

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