Given that we’re having to do without our weekly fix of Lost today, I thought instead we’d take a look at one of the big debates about Lost in general and that is, just who is the real bad guy?

There are of course two main candidates for who is THE baddie on Lost – Charles Widmore or Benjamin Linus – and for me, I think we’re being led astray by Widmore’s apparent menace.

I don’t know if you felt the same, or remember even, but when Lost first began, John Locke was portrayed as a very mysterious and menacing character, but look how that turned out! Even in the original promo images, he looked like he was a ‘no good’ character… remember when he stared at Walt with the orange in his mouth? See how creepy he looks in these pictures… Read more & comment »

This morning, I read a review of this drama as written by Andrew Billen in The Times Online, and with disbelief, I read this… “Yet to have been truly effective, either as drama of propaganda, it should have moved the viewer, and it didn’t me, or not very much.”

I’m assuming he meant “… as drama or propaganda” but typo aside, I can only assume Mr Billen is an automaton or an opponent of the right to choose to die. How anyone can have failed to have been moved by either the real story or this sensitive but faithful reconstruction of it is beyond me… Read more & comment »

Last night’s Too Posh To Pay looked in depth at so called white collar crimes; crimes committed by people who are middle class and on the face of it, respectable people.

These are people who are ripping off their employers, stealing from customers, buying stolen goods, fiddling insurance claims and even breaking into homes to fund their aspirational lifestyles.

And therein lies the crux of the matter; for ‘aspirational’ read ‘greedy’. Every single one of the people in last night’s programme who’d committed a ‘white collar crime’ had done so out of a wish to have more than they’d got. End of. Read more & comment »