Now, if you re really quick on the pickup, you will read the double entendre in the title of my post. (Hint: it hinges on the noun/verb duality of the last word.)
Part of me really enjoyed the first episode, but another, more logical part of me, was screaming in frustration.
I m going to vent that frustration, the re-suspend my disbelief and go back to watching. Honestly. Like I said, I enjoyed it enough in spite of its flaws.
For your convenience, I have divided my post into The Angry Part and The Happy Part.
1. Imagine you have a gun pointed at someone you don t trust, and you re screaming at them not to move.
Instead of not-moving, they advance on you, clicking a fountain pen. Do you:
c) back away, asking what the pen does
d) let the bad guy stab you with a lightning-shooting pen.
Apparently, these writers chose (d).
If you are too stupid to shoot in this situation, I will nominate you for a Darwin Award when your charred body is sticking halfway out of the ceiling.
2. You are a 6 year old girl.
A Bad Man who is not your daddy comes to pick you up from the psychiatrist. Do you:
3. You have just discovered a magical key that is the craziest thing you ve ever seen.
Do you:
a) Get a body piercing, then chain said key to your body
4. You are a dirty, amoral weasel. You have killed several men already for getting in your way.
You have several opportunities to kill, abandon, lie to, cheat, or double-cross the naive cop who is more or less holding you hostage. Do you:
e) give your full cooperation, and then forget one of the most basic rules of the magical objects that they don t work in The Room and attempt your escape at the worst possible time
5. You have just used a magical nail-file to ensorcell your murderous ex-friend.
He is sleeping peacefully on the floor. Do you:
a) Try to save your partner, the man he just shot
c) Grab the murder weapon with your bare, fingerprinty hands remember, you are a cop and stand over the body of your sleeping opponent long enough for his wife to come in and discover you, and then, rather than explaining yourself, run away just in time for this incriminating image to sink in completely
6. You have a magic key.
It appears to take you anywhere you want. Do you:
I know this quiz is difficult. If you answered something other than the last option on any of the questions, you qualify to be a better writer for The Lost Room than the current writers.
Simply put, I realize that a good story requires conflict, but conflict does not require idiocy.
Fun story, good pacing. Making it a miniseries instead of a full series lets us get a lot of action in a short period of time.
Peter Krause (of Six Feet Under fame) is as good as I d hoped. The production quality and special effects are VERY good, considering this is made for TV. Sure, if you look closely you can tell that most of the outdoor shots are green-screened, but who cares?
I like the idea of mysterious objects with random powers. I like the idea that combining them can create strange new effects. So far, it s very fun.
Hopefully the writers don t use it as an to solve (and create) every problem with new objects/object combinations.
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