According to the boys at TV By The Numbers, Kevin was right when he warned us, because he liked the pilot, the show would not last very long. They have classified it as "certain to be cancelled". Elsewhere they note that ABC just approved two additional new scripts, but they point out that this is not uncommon, and may be just to give them scheduling options, or to see if last ditch attempts to fix the show have a shot.
They are less certain about how much longer it will stay on the air, but point out that it is doing better than last season's Charlie's Angels, but not as well as Pan Am, which predicts for cancellation after somewhere between 7 and 13 episodes. While several of us expressed some enthusiasm for this show after the pilot, the truth is I do think it has not lived up to its initial promise. One problem is that aside from the lead, the quality of the acting is emphatically mediocre. But the main problem seems to be the same that has plagued other promising ABC dramas of recent years (Flashforward, Daybreak) - they have a idea for a pilot episode and a vague plot arcs, but no real vision that can give direction and substance to most later episodes. The high and middle brow dramas on cable (Sopranos through Battlestar) had that creative vision, so that even if not every single episode was story-boarded from the start of a season, there was a sense of what the show was about, what its values and sensibility was, what questions and issues and character flaws it wanted to explore, and what voice it spoke in. LR has almost none of this. They clearly went to ABC and said "what if we make a show about a rouge sub that gets exiled in an exotic and remote island (and maybe they had an idea of what the secret explanation for mysterious order that our hero disobeys, but maybe they don't even yet really have that)?" ABC approves it based on a good script for the first episode, and maybe the thought that they can reuse half of their old Lost sets. But without a clear vision the subsequent scripts just get sent through the standard meat grinder. Maybe the show will get better soon. Maybe this will improve ratings and rescue it from cancellation. Overwhelming data from the past suggests none of this is likely - Lost Resort will get cancelled and be off the air sometime between November and the end of January. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
