11.24.2004

Ask the pilot.

Salon's flight expert nitpicks LOST: "Pilots don't watch these sorts of shows for entertainment; they watch them because they have a sardonic infatuation with crash depictions. It's a kind of self-affirmation therapy. They sit back, scornfully and contemptuously pointing out the numerous errors and impossibilities, then switch off the remote before the show is half over. "

While nitpicking usually bugs the crap out of me, I kind of enjoyed this. Plus, he admits that the mysterious force(s) surrounding the island may be responsible for the inconsistencies:

"Word has it that upcoming episodes will attempt to justify the strange circumstances of the crash. Stuck on this eerie haunted island, the castaway cast has clued in to the fact that their jet's death plummet should not have been survivable. What's going on here?

For pilots, of course, that takes away all the fun."

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