LOST (Spoilers!)

Oh come on; don't get me wrong, i can understand the love of the show (although i don't share the slightest positive sentiment against the show itself, 24) but what justifies Sean Callery's unorganized synthy cheap noise as "good", or even as "music"?

It's been ages since I've watched 24, but as I recall I thought the music was serviceable, nothing more. When I picked up the score release cheaply, and suffice to say I haven't played it often, I found it.. well.. wanting.

That notwithstanding, I don't agree that Callery's music shouldn't be fine for 24, although the show, as I recall it, would be an even bigger blast with music of the quality that Giacchino's provided for Lost.

What pisses me off most about 24 is that Callery copied his theme almost verbatim (wrong term, I know) from Chris Young's score from Hard Rain.

About Giacchino, we should also remember that once Lost wraps up, it's unlikely we'll see him scoring another TV-show. The man's going to be too busy doing film scores for that.

It's kinda ridiculous to actually expect many others than Giacchino, and especially someone like Callery, to actually outdo Lost.

.....as is the show. A total failure IMO. If they pretended to create another X Files they´ve failed miserably.

And do you know why? Because they never explain ANYTHING. They think fitting a bunch of random scenes together - of stuff that already doesn't make sense - builds up suspense, but in all honesty, I've no fucking idea what the story is. A ton of weird shit happens every week, they go look at it, come out with some stupid "plausible" explanation, there's a weird "cliffhanger" at the end that doesn't make sense and then we never hear anything more of it again.

Did you see the last episode before the hiatus - the bank one? That had potential at the beginning - being able to walk through walls actually sounded convincing when they did that demonstration with the rice, but then they start going on about bloody time machines that could "pick up" someone from any time.

Plus, they keep employing the dead characters from 24. There's a reason they're dead...

Yeah, he doesn't seem weird at all when I watch him in Lost now.

Why do the never investigate something interesting and slightly plausible? Someone always dies, they take the body back to the lab, find out someone has done something to the person and then go and arrest them. That's the premise for 90% of the episodes.

I'd enjoy it a lot more if what they were investigating made the slightest bit of sense. For example - relating to that episode with the razor-butterflies; they came to the conclusion that the guy was so convinced they were there that his body inflicted the injuries to itself. In real life however, something like this has happened. A repair man was working on an industrial sized freezer, and he got locked in over the weekend. When workers found him on the Monday he appeared to have frozen to death. Then again, he was a repair man; and that freezer was broken, running at 8°C the entire time!

Why not do something like that??

I disagree.


Because it´s called FRINGE.

Right, the reason I was listening to a lot of Lost earlier was because...I have been asked to produce the season 4 soundtrack!

Ok, maybe not...but I have been adding a lot more to The Four Trombones today. If you head over there now, I've added a nice big "Execute" button which will play everything, and I've also listed which themes and motifs appear in all the released tracks. Soon to come is listings by character, and obviously all the season 5 stuff once January rolls around. Maybe I should also start thinking about getting TFT its own URL...?

I would just like to say how seriously cool that version of Ben's theme is when he says goodbye to Locke in the Orchid.

WANT.

The first half of Season 3 is pretty tough stuff on a psychological level; the situation never seemed more desperate for our heroes, and there is some serious dominance/submission stuff going on with Kate having to wear those outfits, Jack having to learn to sit in the corner, and all that stuff. On a concious level, people may find it boring. On a subconscious level, I´m pretty sure a lot of people were scared to death; the whole situation is highly uncomfortable, and not everyone considers that to be good entertainment.

...especially Kate.

...especially Kate.

One thing I love about good action/adventure stories (whether TV or film) is when the hero is captured, beaten, on the verge of death and then pulls a great escape! What's not to like?