• Does Primeval have a future?  Well, yes clearly it does as the widely reported renewal for a third series shows but is it a future with me watching it?  It’s kind of fun, looks quite good and Paul Cornell’s episode on Saturday showed that it’s capable of good things but there’s something in there that bugs me.  Interesting that there is a viewer’s competition to design a monster for next series… will they get another Absorbaloff?
• Why has it all gone wrong for Rafa Benitez at Liverpool since he grew his beard?  Popular opinion seems

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  Tags: Adam, Captain-Jack, Liverpool, Lost, Michael, Primeval, Rafa Benitez, Reset, SkyHD, Torchwood

The Lostaways Begin Their Trek

Season two started with, relatively speaking, a whimper.� It was a show seemingly lost for ideas (excuse the pun), but events ramped up as the days progressed to finally conclude with this Lost double header, Live Together, Die Alone.� I was really surprised to see Desmond play such an influential role having not been seen on the island since the early episodes of the season and we got some flashbacks that told us how he became lost in the first place.� However, it was the more established storylines that moved on the most.� For example, we might have found out why the plane crashed in the first place and I really started to get a feeling that JJ Abrams and his pals really do have a five-year plan after all.� Even though The Others are becomming a little more familiar, they remain as mysterious as ever and their deal with Michael was beautifully realised with all the double-crossing keeping me and The Other Viewer guessing throughout.� Surely though, Michael and Walt’s story cannot be over.� Best of all, I love the way that, just when you think you have a handle on what’s occuring, the writer’s decide to reveal a four-toed statue of a massive foot on the coastline.

Being based in the UK of course, we’ve just seen the end of series two at the same time as our US cousins begin to prepare for season three.� Unlike last season though, Channel 4 gave us no next season preview or promise of a short wait for our next installment, so I’m guessing that it will be spring of 2007 before we see what those guys in the ice station were up to and how Desmond’s ex- may fit into the bigger picture.� The good news is that I can now safely surf the net for Lost information safe in the knowledge that I cannot be significantly spoilt, but as soon as the US broadcast hits the airwaves (and Torrents) I shall withdraw into my little cocoon with the season one and two DVDs as comfort.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t think I can remember having ever been as shocked by a TV show as I was earlier tonight.� The Other Viewer and I recorded the latest episode of Lost, “Two For The Road” from E4 on Tuesday night and we finally settled down with a glass of wine to watch it this evening.�� It all started typically enough (if anything is ever “typical” on this show), with a flashback to Ana-Lucia and the consequences of her murder of Jason, the guy who had earlier shot her.� On the island, life was getting more complicated… Michael’s return, Ana-Lucia and Sawyer’s liaison, Henry’s hunger strike, and Hurley and Libby’s blossoming romance.�� However, the episode’s final two minutes will live with me for a long time, right up there with the appearance of Locutus of Borg and Sheridan’s jump into Z’Ha’Dum.� My heart (genuinely and with no word of a lie) seemed to skip a beat, not once, not twice, but three times as I sat agape at the denoument.� A fantastic show just got better and the final three episodes of series two have a lot to live up to.

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It’s The Final Countdown

Lost is back on the C4/E4 trail with the recent premiere of season two. We’re a few weeks in to it now and the mystery and magic is still there…. we’ve been down the hatch to find a Scotsman, a countdown clock and an old cinefilm about the Dharma Institute. On the other side of the island, Sawyer, Mike and Jin survived the attack by the Others (and an attack by a shark with the Dharma Institute logo on its fin…. huh?) only to be captured by the other Others who survived from the back of the plane. Walt is appearing to Shannon as some kind of ghost and everyone else is going through the mill as usual. Happily, the flashback scenes have also returned to cast more light on the antics of the islanders before the crash and these provide a great backdrop and balance to the stories. Where the first season had that compelling “What-the-hell-is-going-on?” factor, this time round I find myself a bit more comfortable with the concept and a bit more impatient to get some more answers. Still gripping stuff.

Tags: Channel4, Dharma-Institute, E4, Jin, Lost, Michael, Sawyer, Shannon, The-Others, Walt