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Boy Meets World



During the many, many hours that I spend on public transport, one of the ways that I pass the time (apart from wondering what the boy who never doesn't wear a hat's hair might be like) is over at the AV Club, the brilliant culture spin-off of The Onion. Being, as I am, a person who wrote their undergraduate dissertation on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, it's the TV pages that I usually gravitate towards, which feature some of the best writing about television that I've seen in any medium.

This is a recent highlight. It's about Boy Meets World, the US comedy/drama thing that ran on Channel 4 for most of the 1990s, back before TV execs had invented – sigh – Hollyoaks. (Other things that they ran on schoolnights: Blossom, Desmond's... and I've forgotten the others.) And so it was one of those things that I'm disproportionately fond of, because it happened right at the start of my adolescence (see also: REM and Ren and Stimpy).

It's great to see something as otherwise overlooked as Boy Meets World get proper, in-depth coverage, not least because I'd forgotten it was where Rider Strong, he of the excellent name, first became a thing that exists. And anything that reminds me of the phenomenon of '1990s hair' is a good thing with me.



Lost in Lost



Just now, for shits and giggles, I decided to attempt watching an episode of Lost. This was fun for a number of reasons: although I had no idea what was going on, everything seemed pretty similar to when I last saw it.

Lost is, of course, legendarily complicated, so I'm sure something has actually happened in the four years since I last watched a full episode. (Along with, I suspect, a fair proportion of former UK viewers, I lost track around the time it switched from Channel 4 to Sky.) But the sensation was the same: not really having any clue what was going on, yet somehow finding the sensation faintly enjoyable.

So apparently the man with the bug eyes the found up a tree was really evil, but is now apparently alright, and they've stopped flashing backwards in time and started showing us a "what if?"-style parallel universe, or something. Still, with less than ten episodes left, I imagine they'll have to start explaining stuff fairly soon. If they manage it, I'll think about going back and catching up on what I've missed. If they don't, I'll just be glad I spent the time watching Desperate Housewives instead. Oh, wait a minute...

Entertainingly, this guy is recapping the entire season having never seen an episode before. The pictures are particularly amazing.





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