Wednesday 2 June 2010

Beguiling and infuriating

Cameron has just won again. Online live Scrabble is proving to be a bit of an addiction. I'm going to have to finish it though especially since I cannot seem to win one game unless the online player vanishes for over 4 weeks.
Barry, Diana, Cameron and myself have been playing since Cameron first stumbled across it a few months ago in his wanderings round the world of facebook. A great online version of the classic game but with loads of help consisting of a rather helpful dictionary and a two letter word list which are great for when your in a tight spot. Barry entertains himself in games by coming up with words that sound very much like abuse or swear words whilst Cameron merely growls abuse when you gain 63 points by adding one letter on to one of his well thought out words and then advertise it on the facebook home page as your own impressive scrabble achievement. He still won the game though so I don't know what he's complaining about...
Cameron likes complaining though. He was complaining the other day about the end of Lost for instance, the tv series that has attracted, beguiled, confused, repelled and infuriated so many over the past six years.
Ka and myself had been devoted followers, looking forward to a revelatory ending on Friday night, staying in with a big bowl of crisps and a couple of beers to find out the answers. Some people do look for answers at the bottom of beer bottles and some may have been better off doing so. We certainly thought the writers had been at times anyway. However, it was a great ending to a great series, in my opinion, bringing a fitting conclusion to the stories of the crash survivors. Some dying on the mysterious island, some escaping with the help of a handily undrownable pilot, but all, apparently, ending up in the same afterlife storyline which had been running through the whole of season 6 in flashback form. The one thing that was not explained in the final episode was, of course, the island itself. How it came into being, why it had the powers it had, what the mystical tunnel was all about, how it was able to seemingly shift through time and space like some kind of geological time machine and where the hell the lighthouse popped up from? With these questions, and many others, still left unanswered, the ending to the series was never going to please everyone, especially Cameron.

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