brad dielman

When the third season of Lost went on a brief hiatus back in November, I was a bit put off. Not because I was on the edge of my seat eagerly anticipating the next installment of what was once the best show on television, rather because they had opened up so many new plotlines while letting older, more interesting ones languish and added so many new characters while at the same time killing of one of the most interesting new members of the Lost “tribe”. No, I wasn’t lamenting the temporary loss of my favorite show. I was upset because this season had taken all that was great about it and brushed it aside without any explanation. Now I had to wait months before seeing if the producers, directors and writers could get the show back on track.

Well, my long wait is about over since Lost will pick back up on February 7th. I have to say, I’m a bit pessimistic about the prospects of the show returning to its former glory. Not that the talented writers don’t have the chops to write amazing and compelling TV drama, but I believe they have painted themselves into a corner. I have the first two seasons on DVD and going back there are many twists and turns the story has taken, great adventures and mysteries that were introduced and then simply ignored. No follow up. No closure. No mention of them at all. Its almost as if the writers had a great idea one week, looked at it again post shoot and decided it wasn’t worth the effort so they dropped it. All the while hoping that the audience wouldn’t take notice.

The problem with that thinking is that with any show with a large cult following, there are leagues of rabid fans soaking up every detail, every nuance of the characters and their stories. In a situation like this, you owe it to the fans to stick with the myriad story lines that were created in the Lost’s golden era before you introduce many more don’t tie in well with the established plot.

Then again, what do I know?

I guess being an early adopter is not all that it is cracked up to be.

As you may know from reading the previous posts, I decided to move to the WordPress platform after a year and half with Blogger. Blogger was decent enough and had some great templates designed by some of the best web designers in the industry. The problem was that it wasn’t flexible enough.

So now I’m on WordPress. I really like the platform so far and I’m sure it will serve me well for the time being (although my ultimate goal is to design my own CMS from scratch). The problem I am facing right now is importing my 18 months of posts from Blogger to this site.

This wouldn’t have been an issue if I hadn’t upgraded to the new version of Blogger prior to switching over. There is a script in the WordPress installation that will allow you to import you posts from another platform, however this script is for the old version. When I try to login to Blogger from the WordPress importer I get an error that says “Login failed, please reenter your username and password”.

Until someone smarter than I can get the script updated, I guess I’m cursed to have two places where my thoughts and opinions reside. Hopefully WP 2.1 will have an updated script.