LOST – Whose Bright Idea Was the Captioning?

Talk about extremely annoying – tonight’s episode / recap of LOST — which we’ve been waiting for how long now? — is using a stupid ‘captioning’ system at the bottom of the screen to give you ‘back stories’ and ‘on screen facts’ while they use flashbacks to pretty much show you the same thing while talking about it, too. What? Did the writers have a VH1 fixation with the pop-up screen facts thingy and had to find a way to work it into the show? Or maybe they’ve taken a page from channel G4 and the “Star Trek 2.0 Interactive” repeats that have ongoing comments at the bottom of the screen and factoids along the edges, with the show only being a small section of the screen (another channel/show I avoid like the plague when they do that.)

I’ve noticed the LOST guys managed to stop the dratted pop-up comments only during credits. Heaven forbid we should be distracted from those. I mean, I’ve waited all this time just to see who crews the show, haven’t you?

If they manage to do this distracting captioning every episode, and not just this recap version, I’ll have to reconsider watching the series this season. (Maybe I’ll just have to wait for the end of year 2 1/2 minute “distilled version”, eh?)

I don’t know about you, but I watch TV to see and hear an action/adventure story – otherwise I’d pick up a book if I wanted to read it, eh?… <sigh>

23 hours and counting until the beginning of the new season!

(Now the commercials for the new season each featuring a different character are actually quite funny and good, though… )

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