Are you up to the test!?

Im now half way through the first season of Lost, im really enjoying this show, interesting characters, a somewhat original idea although it does kinda strike me as Lord of Flies meets the Island of Dr.Moreau, although its early days, who knows where the shows going to go yet.

However, because its me they're a few things that annoy me about the show, everywhere I go, as soon as I mention that im enjoying Lost they look so smug with themselves as everyone on the planet has either ordered themselves the DVD box set or watched it over the internet, im not knocking this, I watched Desperate Housewives over the internet but now that Scrubs is finished there's pretty much nothing on tv to watch so I enjoy the once a week installments and the building excitement so I finding it pretty galling when people go 'Oh, do you want a clue as to what's coming?', hey why don't you fuck off with your clues! What's worse are people who read what's going to happen, wow, your so knowledgeable and special because you read up on it, if I wanted to I could find out everything that's happened up to series 2 in less than 5 minutes on the net, but as I say, im enjoying the show at the pace im going.

Also, on the subject of DVD box sets, region 1 you can order the whole first season, 24 episodes, region 2 are getting screwed with the show coming out in two 12 episode box sets, the obvious reason being that the tv people are desperate to make money from DVD sales in the UK but also want people to keep watching the show so they can make plenty of cash from the commercials, those money grabbing whores.

What else bugs me is that there's a second season, im stickler for seeing every episode of every show I watch, im going to have to watch season 2 of Desperate Housewives when it starts and im going to have to stick with How I Met Your Mother even though the last two episodes were pretty limp and whenever I think that I haven't seen an episode of 24 since the end of season 2 I feel very annoyed with myself, not to mention all the countless shows I don't watch because I don't have the time to watch them in my hectic schedule. With Lost I thought I was safe, that it was going to be a one off thing, they're stuck on a desert island for fucks sake, eventually they all get off the island or they all die, those seemed to me the only two possible outcomes but everyone's always 'ooohs' and 'aaaahs' when I say this, so probably not. I hope to god that season 2 is the last season, I don't want this going on for another 4 or 5 seasons, frankly my social life is meager enough as it is, the 'short and sweet' approach no longer seems to exist in the TV world, fingers crossed that Lost is the exception to this rule.

Off topic - I really think they should do a spin off called 'Pranks', where Charlie and Hurley go round the Island causing mischief.