I’m about to recommend a TV program. Hold tight.
Lost. Plane crashes, about 30 people survive, no contact, weird island that’s trying to kill them, backstories unravel. It’s an American TV series so buttons are pushed and boxes ticked, and it’s all quite absurd, as you’d expect with JJ Abrams being one of the creators, but it’s very well done indeed. It’s the pacing that does it – even though there’s all this incredible visual stuff going on (the plane crash is repeated every episode from a different point of view and the island is gorgeous) and sheds of soapy angst it’s balanced with the tedium of just waiting. Maybe my recent exposure to this sort of high production value Yank TV has softened me somewhat but I’m hooked.
Three episodes have been broadcast in the States so far so it won’t be over here for ages, and when it does it’ll probably be on Sky and ruined with ads, so fire up your Bit Torrent package, pop over to Suprnova, download and enjoy.
it had better be good – on your advice i’m bt-ing down the first 3 episodes and it ain’t half mussing up the rest of my ‘puter, and looks set to do for aaaaaaages. if they’re smelly-pooh i shall be hunting you down to poke you with sharp sicks i shall.
For some reason BitTorrent takes a while to get used to. I can’t think why this is but I know it was a few months before I got comfortable with the whole thing. If your uplaods are slowing everything down look around for a client that lets you throttle them a bit. I’d recommend Tomato Torrent for Macs, which ain’t much use for you I know.
I think part of it is accepting that you’re downloading gigabytes offa the internet. If you think back to when it would take an hour for an mp3 to come down the pipe via Napster it’s all rather incredible.
Oh, and it’s defintely not smelly-pooh. Though there is the slight oddness of seeing Dominic Monaghan at full size yet still somewhat shorter than everyone else…
and to think he started out in “Hetty Wainthorpe Investigates”!
(insert crude joke about not minding being the Lord of His Ring when I saw him in that series. Hur hur hur.)
Get thee to a teenage message board. This ain’t no livejournal!
(insert emoticons and some kind of 14m3r putdown)
Pete – Check out Azureus for BTs on the Mac. Really nice full featured client.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Um, as some of you might know, Suprnova has been closed…
Any1 know another torrent site which has the episodes?
I like this summary of the show.
I love the lost episodes!
The best action/drama/adventure/comedy tv serie i have seen.
Seems to be 2 so-so episodes, then 1 fantastic episode, then the cycle repeats.
Yeah, i was thinking that, but that tends to be par for the course with these long American seasons. A really good one then “monster of the week”.
It’ll all be over soon and then we get the joy of the rest of UK discovering it while we try and keep our mouths shut…
So what do you think the season ending will be?
It has to be something to do with ‘the hatch’, either they go in or something/someone comes out. Maybe Jacks father will reappear (his body was not in the coffin), the monster will be seen again, and how about a radio message being picked up saying help is on the way? All possible, and only time will tell.
Oh, and John Locke being named after a philosopher is not random conincidence apparently.
Sadly episodes of Boston Legal seem to have dried up on bittorrent, i’m still missing ep9 and anything after ep17.
“his body was not in the coffin”
this was most probably because the airport lied and didn’t actually put the body in the coffin as it was too much effort, remember in that ep they made a big deal about takin the body on flight. Then again, that could have be done to put people off track.
It’s kind of a running joke for me that there are SO many lose ends in Lost, not to mention red herrings, mcguffins and distractions. If it does all add up to one big thing I’ll be amazed.
I stumbled across some spoilers on tvtome.com so I kinda know what happens but the chances are they justr scratch the surface. But beyond specifics I think it’ll be everything changes yet stays the same there’s season two to think of after all. ;)
Woo! Coming soon to Channel 4…