Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Since its fall new season premiere the ABC SF show “LOST” has been having to settle for second place in its timeslot behind CBS’s “Criminal Minds.” Second place is unfamiliar territory for the Emmy winning SF series.
The good news is that the show about airline crash survivors on an uncharted mysterious island has regained its footing and is back in its winning slot having bested “Criminal Minds” in total viewers this week for the first time since the new season began. Could it be that the show, once-again, became re-focused on other very important characters other than the big three (Sawyer, Kate and Jack)? Stay tuned!
At final count, the CBS drama had 16.203 million, 103,000 fewer than “LOST.” This recapture of the coveted win position comes as the show begins to make room, until its return in January 2007, for another new SF drama called “Day Break” starring Taye Diggs which begins in mid November.
I still miss Invasion, right after Lost, and given the choice would have chosen Invasion. What happens after hybrid humans, both 1st and 2nd gen, are moving through the unsuspecting population of the USA could have been a far more interesting storyline, had ABC the external male genitalia to follow through.
Then again, now it could sing soprano with NBC (cancelled Surface after assuring its fans that it would be back), & CBS ( cancelled Threshold after a series of moves reminiscint of FOX doing hide and seek with Firefly). Not a miniseries followup, nothing but “we lied, so what, get used to it”.
Although seriously underfunded, I would pay premium channel subscription money for an actual completion of a story arc. Failing that, perhaps rather menacing-looking people planted outside the major network offices to “persuade” scifi writers to avoid handing their baby to one who would abort it?