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...perhaps we just have to be patient. Summer 2005 was a horrible season for film: countless, poorly-written remakes including “Bewitched” and “Herbie: Fully Loaded,” the un-anticipated role of Jane Fonda opposite J.Lo in “Monster-In-Law,” Jamie Foxx’s odd post-Oscar choice “Stealth,” and the Paris Hilton vehicle “House of Wax.” Don’t get me wrong, all this dredge lined...
...bleed viewers as casual fans tune out. This is where the science comes in. What Lost geeks have that earlier TV cultists didn't is a mature, broadband Internet. The fans set up blogs, reference sites and podcasts. They watched, then debated and posted tidbits and theories (the smoke monster is a nanorobot cloud controlled by a psychic!). "Part of watching this show is talking about it," says Nicholas Gatto, 14, who runs abclost.blogspot.com "It doesn't just end at the credits...
...those technologies allow the producers to add levels of detail. In a Season 2 episode, Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a former Nigerian drug lord, has a religious epiphany when he encounters the smoke monster in the jungle. Viewers who TiVoed the scene and played it in slow motion saw a series of images in the cloud: Eko's dead brother, a man Eko killed, a crucifix. The images flash by in fractions of a second. A casual viewer would not have noticed them at all. Either way, it works. You can sit back and enjoy the story...
...grassroots frenzy like Grey's Anatomy's can't be entirely manufactured. What started as an iffy mid-season replacement in 2005 has turned into a monster hit for ABC with a fiercely devoted following, the majority of whom are women. Last season Grey's was the highest-rated 10 p.m. show on any network and the second-highest-rated drama among the coveted 18-to-49 demo, second only to Lost. McDreamy's picture is plastered on school lockers, cell phones, screen savers and even cubicle walls. "There aren't many characters like him on TV," says Robert Thompson...
...England Why Such Discontent? In spite of all the efforts by western governments and Western news media to shield Pakistan from being branded "terror center" of the world, the facts just keep saying otherwise [Aug. 21]. It is understandable that the U.S. would want Pakistan to deal with the monster it has created. But sooner or later Western nations will have to get involved in that nation's internal affairs. Pakistan continues to be the cesspool of terrorism, and only direct intervention by the West is going to eradicate that threat. Suresh Sheth Houston I'm appalled by ungrateful young...