So today is Friday and we know what that means. I will go live on my YouTube channel to talk about last night’s episode. Of the, so last night on the,
we only had one elimination. I’m not gonna get into everything right now ’cause you’ll hear me talk about it this afternoon. By the way, I will be joined by varieties, Emily Erta, and we are gonna start a little bit earlier today because Emily has to get on a Zoom call. So it’s going to be at 2 45 Eastern Time.
A chance I might move it up to two 30 just to be on the safe side because she has a call. Excuse me. Lemme tell you. Yeah, 2 45 Eastern time. I might make it up. I might make it at two 30 Eastern time. I haven’t decided yet, but pay attention for that. She’s gotta be on a Zoom call for work, but I wanted her to come on and.
Yeah, every week now, I’m gonna try and get somebody on to join me since we only got one episode a week to cover. If it was just me, it would probably take, you know, 10 minutes. And I just don’t wanna do a 10 minute live YouTube video. I want someone else’s opinion as well, so we can bounce stuff off and talk about last night’s episode.
And you know, they ended with a cliffhanger. We’re gonna see another murder in plain sight. Well possibly a murder in plain sight next week, because we find out at the end of the episode. That Alan is throwing a big dinner party and whoever wears an alet, which is gonna end up being Lisa, anyone there at the dinner party who touches the Alet.
Actually, it’s the first person who touches the Alet is getting murdered, so they ended with that. The round table, we saw what happened. It was a lot closer. Rob turned on Lisa. He had his reasons. It made sense of why he did, but clearly if you’re a traitor and one of the other traders votes for you and you don’t vote for them,
yeah,
you’re gonna be upset.
So, got a lot to go over from last night’s episode. So tune in today. I’ll let you know on my socials if it’s gonna be at two 30 Eastern or 2 45 Eastern. Either way, we’re gonna be ready to go and spend about 20 to 30 minutes on it talking with Emily Retta from. Variety who has been covering this show.
She knows some of the contestants on this show. So good stuff there. We’re not gonna obviously spoil anything. I don’t think she knows any spoilers, but you know what I’m saying. So look for that today. Live on my YouTube channel. Obviously that is free. So yesterday I was able to complete season three of Lost and I’m already a good.
Seven or eight episodes into season four. And yeah, seeing it again, the final episode of season three, it, it’s a game changer and you completely watch the show differently after that. Now I don’t, I know the show’s been out for 15 years. It’s like, Steve, why aren’t you talking about what that game changer is for those of us who maybe.
It’s just that I got an email yesterday and I wanna read it to you. It said, Hey, Steve, on Wednesday’s daily roundup, you raved about how good season three of the Law of Finale of Lost was. As someone who never watched the show, when it originally aired. I decided to watch it earlier this year since I periodically would hear about how good the show was.
Loved season one, but for me, it went downhill from there. I’m not a big fan of sci-fi, so it got way too corny for me, and the fact that each season was over 24 episodes, it seemed to just drag on and my attention span ran out. I actually made it halfway through season three when I decided to call it quits.
But the way you speak of the show, especially season three finale, is really making me want to go give it another chance. I love dramas, thrillers, but not sci-fi. Curious if you’d be able to say one thing about the show that you haven’t said yet that will persuade me to give it another chance. And this is what I wrote them back.
I wanted to be honest with them. I said, okay, few things. Number one. This is very sci-fi and suspension of disbelief. That’s not changing. If you can’t get over that, then I would suggest not watching. To me, while it is sci-fi and not remotely believable, it’s this show is more about the characters, how we navigate life, friendships made.
And who was important to us. So to me, it’s much deeper than just a sci-fi show. Point number two, seasons one through three had 25, 24, and 23 episodes, respectively. You were right about that. But seasons four through six have 4, 14, 17, and 18 episodes respectively. And the third point I said was, if you don’t know the major spoiler at the end of season three or what the back half of the show is about, I would watch it just for that.
Again, it’s personal preference, but I’ve always just thought it was one of the best character development shows ever and have a much deeper and has a much deeper meaning than just a plane crash on a weird island that had a bunch of bizarre stuff going on and that convinced this person that they’re gonna go give it a chance and they’re gonna go watch.
And as I’m rewatching again now, and that’s why I don’t want, like if I say right now, obviously some of you who know exactly what I’m talking about at the end of season three, if that person is listening, which they said they’re a frequent listener to my podcast. I don’t wanna ruin it for them at this point.
I know it’s been out 15 years, but I think that twist is so good, and I have said it all week. It’s the best twist in the history of television. And you might think I’m being hyperbolic when I say that, but you have to remember, this was 2006, season three aired in 2006 when this twist aired. There wasn’t Twitter, there wasn’t Instagram, there wasn’t TikTok.
There wasn’t stuff that would get out before stuff happened. It just wasn’t happening. And this twist. Blew everybody away if they had been investing one hour a week for three years. ’cause this show started airing in 2004, and then 2005 was the start of season two, and then 2006 was the start of season three.
So actually that episode that I’m talking about, the season three finale actually aired in 2007, but that’s what I mean, 2007. You just don’t understand. If you weren’t watching this show and you hadn’t dedicated, ’cause that was basically episode what, 49 and 2016. That was episode number 72 of the show.
You had been watching this show for 72 episodes, and then the whole show gets flipped on its head on that 72nd episode and you’re like, whoa. By the way, season three was the most watched season of that show. In terms of average viewers in millions, uh, per week. So it was the most watched season. And again, that finale was just,
I just don’t think you could pull off a twist like that nowadays because. No network and no streaming service would ever give a show. 72 episodes before they did some major twist Now in epi in season one. In season two and and other episodes in season three, they were always, there were always mysteries coming up and you would see some of these passengers on the plane.
Their paths had crossed before they ever boarded the flight, and though they didn’t know it, but we as an audience, see, oh wow, they crossed paths here and all this stuff. But no show would ever be given three and a half years or three years to have a payoff of something as big as what this twist was.
That’s why I say it’s the greatest twist ever, because not only was it given so much time, we just hadn’t seen anything like this. You know, doing flashbacks and stuff like that. That happens all the time on TV shows now. And it’s because of loss. Like that’s why loss was such a game changer. Every episode, every single one of those 72 episodes you were getting what was happening on the island interspersed with five to six clips every episode of one of the passengers and what they were doing before the flight.
And that was just really riveting television. Like, since then, we’ve seen things and we’ve seen people try and copy it. It just, it’s tough to put yourself back in that timeframe. 2004 to 2007 when the show was on, it was everybody’s, everybody talked about this show that was watching it and it was top 10, like I’m looking at it right now.
Season one or it was top 15, season one was 15th, season two was 15th. Season three was 10th and. I just remember like it was, you had to talk to people about it. ’cause like, you see what happened last, oh, last night we got a flashback of this character. Oh, did you see that? This character, oh, that’s why it tied in with that character’s path.
It was just, it was so good. And again, I don’t wanna ruin it for this person that is gonna go back and rewatch it and or not rewatch it. They hadn’t seen, they haven’t seen it passed midway through season three. So I just said, go watch it. Don’t go online. Don’t try and Google, you know, lost twist or anything like that.
You don’t wanna do that because I mean, even if you do know it’s coming, obviously I knew it was coming yesterday when I came to the last episode of season three, I knew it was coming and it was still awesome because. The impact of it, the emotional impact of it was just like, you don’t get that very often in TV shows, but I think you also had to have watched the previous 71 episodes that had aired to get that emotional impact, I feel.
And then once season four starts, you’re watching a, I don’t wanna say a completely different show, ’cause you’re not, but in a way you are. And those that have seen the show know exactly what I’m talking about. Just so, so good and I’m glad I can turn one person just like all my back to the future talk.
I’m glad now I can turn one person on to watching this show and completing watching this show. You know, I understand movies, books, television shows, music. They’re all subjective. Just because I love loss doesn’t mean you’re going to, and maybe it won’t have the emotional impact on this person that it did for me.
Because I grew up watching it and I, and I watched it, I mean, 2004 to 2007, I was, you know, 29 to 32. It was right around that time of, well, I don’t really, I mean, put it this way, it was right around the time that I moved. Then I made the move from California to Texas. I moved to Texas in July of oh six.
Which was basically the summer, that season, summer after season two. So season three was the first season I had watched here in Texas, and now I’m trying to remember where was I on May 23rd, 2007 when that episode aired. I mean, I know where I was. I, I, I guess I was just watching it in my apartment anyway, but just a, an an absolute bombshell and.
I, I just can’t imagine anyone thinking, eh, it was okay, the twist. Maybe you didn’t care for the rest of the show. I, I, I don’t see how that, if you liked the twist, why you wouldn’t want to be glued to the next three seasons to see how everything plays out. But anyway, I’m glad I turned at least one person onto it.
So. My streak continues. Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcasts. Also rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now as we’re talking about the A-F-C-N-F-C Championship this weekend.
Again, thank you all for listening. Have a great weekend everybody. And I’ll talk to you on Monday. See.
