Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Has he LOST it or what?

Ok, I am going to write an entire blog about a television show that one of my roommates would trade his religion in rather then miss one second of the show. The show is Lost. He has way overhyped this show to his family, friends, coworkers, bartenders, dentist, pastor, and basically anyone that has been within 12 feet of him for over 30 seconds. He basically only talks about this show. "There is no better show on t.v.!" "It is the best single thing on earth!" and "It comes in as a close second behind the life of Christ, as the single greatest event in the history of the universe!" "Ahhhhhhhhh" are all sentences you hear him say every 108 minutes. This "astonishing, awe-inspiring and awesome" show has been on for a year now, on Wednesdays at 8:00 on ABC. My rooomate has even stopped calling Wednesday by it name, calling it "LOST night!!!!" now. For most of the past year he spear-headed a movement to try and force people to watch the show with him, and enjoy it in his way(which is with every breath he takes). He succeeded with a few of my friends over the past year and now they do nothing but talk about plot developments, story lines, and cliff hanger endings to episodes; never talking about normal things like sports, women and cereals, only Lost. Well, then summer came and heavens for bid, Lost was in between seasons, and you would think that this would mean Wednesdays would be back to normal. That would be a wrong assumption. The talking continued, the hyping continued, the cornering and beating up of non-Lost lovers continued. It got to the point one night, and alcohol was not involved most likely, that my roommate was literally in tears because season two of Lost was only one week away. He was emotional over the fact that every single human on earth has not seen this "moving, overwhelming, spine-tingling, stunning, thrilling" show yet. I think he was almost going crazy from not getting to see a new episode for over 3 months. He kept saying all these numbers over and over... 4 8 15 16 23 42. He screamed out in his sleep one night "what is in the hatch!!!!" so loudly that it woke even the niebors. I think what bothered him the most was the fact that his roommates had yet to watch his "godlike" show and hence our lives were in danger. He had me wondering "has he had lost it or what?" Knowing that he had, I still made a decision that I am still not sure was or was not a good one. I broke down and watched the whole first season on DVD. Mind you I decided to do this 5 days before the new season was starting. And that is when it began. All these strange things. Not as strange as a man being blown up by a stick of 400 year old dynamite, but strange things were happining. I started watching episodes at all hours and everywhere I could. I could not get enouph of this new show. I would watch it on my computer, I would watch it in any free fifteen minutes i had before work leaving for work, I even borrowed a portable DVD player and watched it while driving to work. I watched 24 one-hour episodes in a 4 day span, all while working, working out, sleeping and eating cereal. I started talking solely about this cool show and I started cornering people and asking them if they had seen this Lost show. I would ask customers at work what they thought of Kate's flashback, Locke walking again, and Hurley's jokes. It was happening to me. I was becoming a full-fledge fan of a t.v. show. I was starting to hold it up as "one of the best shows on t.v." Was this really happening? So, the season two started and more sings of my new obsession started appearing. I actually raced home one night, ignoring speed limits and traffic lights, so that I could be there for the very first minute of the first episode of season two. I was fully hooked now. The second episode came a week later, and right after it was over I rushed to my computer and spent 3 straight hours consulting with other Lost cult members, on a lost messege board(something a huge dork invented to allow other dorks to spread rumors, gossip, ideas, quotes, and talk about Lost). I was trying to make since of what the heck Dharma is? What was that swan? Why was a shark tattooed? Why is Locke so weird? Why was I doing this? And then another week passed and I watched every second of the third episode ever so intently and that was just 2 hours ago. I never blinked once the entire show. And now the final weird thing has just happened... I sprinted into my room, sat down at the computer and told my four readers all about how crazy I am about this Lost show. And I am feeling wierd all over. GO AND RENT THE FIRST SEASON! WATCH THIS SHOW! IT IS AWESOME! YOUR LIFE MAY BE IN DANGER IF YOU DON'T!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Now I am sure your asking yourselves, "Has he LOST it or what?" Until next time.

2 comments:

Joel said...

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Anonymous said...

I think you went to easy on joel, you forgot about him naming the figurines on his desk, Kate, Jack, Hurley, Locke...Good blog