In a month or so, LOST will be in its final season. I’m horribly behind on things, but I’m getting better. LOST was on my ‘I have to watch this TV series sometimes’ list, but I never got around watching it, partly because I don’t have a TV anymore and got completely out of touch with what’s aired over here and what’s not. The fact I’m depending on welfare doesn’t really help either. I used to have a VPN account to watch hulu and the like, but at one point that just got too expensive and I had to cancel that. Luckily my friend Fr. Roderick allowed me to borrow his DVDs for season 1 and 2 so I could watch it. And so I did last December! Below is my review of season 1 and some theories I have right now. I’m in the process of watching the rest later this month, so other reviews will follow. So please, if you read this and are completely caught up, don’t post any spoilers here!
For those folks who weren’t able to watch this hitseries I strongly recommend doing so. You may not want to read the stuff after the jump, because it will contain spoilers. I just guess that by now everybody who ever wanted to see LOST season 1 has done that by now.
What made the series promising for me is the fact that it is from J.J. Abrahams, which for me stands for good SF. I was somewhat surprised to see that the whole series is set on a tropical island here on earth with no space ships or aliens in sight. I totally love series in space, so this was something I need to grow used to. The series timeline seems to be set in the present too, so I’m still a bit confused as what the whole ScienceFiction part of the series is going to be.
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Photo by Don SoloToday is a weird day. It’s weird because Battlestar Galactica won’t be aired tomorrow on the American SciFi Channel. Reason: it’s on hiatus until 2009! UNTIL 2009! What are they THINKING??? How am I supposed to survive this? First you had the writers’ strike and now this. It’s just not fair!
I’m trying to get something positive out of it, because I now have the opportunity to watch things I haven’t had time to see earlier. One of the series I really want to see is Firefly and also the original Battlestar Galactica from 1978. And there’s Babylon 5 and Buck Rogers. I remember how the latter was one of my favourite TV series as a kid. These are TV series, but there are so many films I still want to see. The cool thing is that I can do all of that now without having to leave my house! I can watch everything online! Problem is that you have to jump through a number of hoops before you finally can watch, but once you get there, it’s just GREAT. I now can watch content on demand at ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, Fox and of course Hulu. Normally you only can watch those if you live in the United States. I don’t so I need to resort to technology to watch it from an US computer.
What I do is creating a data tunnel to an US based computer, a VPN connection. It’s not for free, but it’s not too expensive either, especially when compared to a cable TV subscription. For me it’s $15 each month. If you’re in the Netherlands and have a TV and want to buy a cable subscription, you pay €15 for it. With the current exchange rate of the dollar it’s a real good deal. I don’t own a TV set, don’t have a desire to pay €15 each month for trash tv either. I enabled the VPN on both the PC and the MacBook, so I can access those sites anywhere, provided I have an internet connection. I just LOVE technology!
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