So I used to watch the show Lost. Well I didn't really watch it when it started, mostly because of my work schedule I suppose. I didn't know much about it, but I heard my brother and my dad mentioning how good it was, or see posts on messageboards about how amazing and crazy complex it was. As the season passed by I decided I would have to check it out when it came out on DVD.
When it came out I picked it up and watched the whole season over the course of a weekend. It was great, I loved it and each end of an episode made it hard to not watch the next one. So I eagerly awaited the second season. As much as I love my technology and stuff I have not quite yet jumped to TiVo/DVR so I was stuck with leaving work tremendously early to catch episodes. Or rely heavily on my memory or kind father to set up a tape for me.
This worked pretty well, except for those times when it didn't and I was left to watch the episode on abc's website or eventually I started grabbing episodes off Itunes, cause why not? The nice thing about this season was that I could finally theoretically take an active role in the discussion of the show and come up with my own conspiracy theories or try and find things my "friends" may have missed. The show started to decline a bit in interest for me I think. I still enjoyed watching but I wasn't as in love with it as I had been after watching season 1. Still the end of the season left me just as excited as ever to get on with the story and learn more about whatever the fuck is really going on.
On to season three. This year I somehow missed the second or third episode. Instead of dealing with the whole trying to tape stuff all the time, I decided I would just buy the season pass on Itunes. I figured well I may have to wait until Thursday nights to watch the episode, but at least I know I'll have it and wont have to worry about it. This lack of worry though, has caused me to be completely lackadaisical in actually watching the show. Last night was Lost night, and I happened to have left work early for no particular reason. So I was home and able to watch a brand spanking new episode of Lost, when I realized that no I couldn't, because I never got around to watching the three previous episodes. So now I have four to watch and who knows when I will get around to actually looking at them, and I'm obviously not keeping up with the internet drama, or whats left of it at least.
I don't know if I can blame this on Apple fairly but I will anyway. It's all ITunes fault for letting me not care. Also I don't enjoy watching them off ITunes as much because a)It's on my computer screen and not my somewhat nice tv, and b)I don't get closed captioning on my computer. I'm sure I will watch them, and when I do I will probably watch several in a row. I hope the show keeps on, but I think next season, if I dont have TiVo yet, I'm just going to wait for the dvd's again.
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Honestly, there just seems to be something about itunes that leeches the life out of a show. When I used it to try and catch up with Battlestar Galactica, it didn't go so well. By the end of the second episode, i realized that while they only do cost two dollars a pop, by the end I'd have spent about half the cost of the inevitable DVD set. And in return, I'd get a weaker image on a more annoying screen.
Then, I just stopped watching it altogether.
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