Toss Up: Lost vs Veronica Mars week 4

This is when I usually do my toss up between toss up between the two best shows of last year that just happen to be at the same timeslot, Lost and Veronica Mars but I’m going to skip that this week on the basis that Lost sucked massively this week and just hand the award to Veronica Mars this week. After a finale that revealed nothing, Lost this season has gotten progressively worse throughout this season. The most recent stinkfest involved both Jin and Sun searching for something, in the past they were both looking for love which, duh, they would eventually do. Back on the island Jin was searching for Michael while Sun couldn’t find her wedding ring that lead to the worst metaphor of the show.

The only entertaining parts of the show was when Hurley asked Sun “Are you from the good Korea or the bad one?” and when Sawyer and Ana Lucia where trading barbs while asking about each other’s availability. But that was about it. The major problem was not with the lame storyline though; instead it was where was the token hot chick? They are only five episodes into the season and Shannon has been completely left out of two of them already and has been reduced to about one scene of the other episodes. Is it really that hard to scan her sunbathing while transitioning to another scene? Luckily my TV Guide (the new TV Guide, for the record, is the worst idea since New Coke. Like a wise man once said, “I fear change.”) said next weeks episode will be Shannon-centric so hopefully that will make up the lack of bikinis in this season so far.

The heart of the reason why Shannon has been lost in the shuffle this season is because the cast has ballooned up to rival that of Hen-Hur leaving a large chunk of the cast without any screen time. But that is going to change because in three weeks someone. Will. Be. Lost… Forever. So once again the preview of Lost was actually more interesting than the show itself. Yet most like the death will suck much like Boone’s demise. Do they not realize that Arnz’s death was much better TV not knowing it would happen as opposed to Boone’s who everyone realized he was going to die the moment he fell off the cliff, yet they devoted a whole hour afterwards anyways? And for anyone who doesn’t realize it yet, the death is in three week, but there will be a new episode next week, and presumable the week after that. Of course that’s if you trust the new (evil) TV Guide.

So here is my prediction, much like I predicted last season, Claire will be the one to die leaving Charlie in charge of her kid.

As for Veronica Mars, the show seemed to slow down for the first time this season. I thought it was odd that after last weeks dramatic ending of Big Dick fleeing in a helicopter that there wasn’t even a mention of it this week. Yet unlike Lost, who leaves multiple questions unanswered, that it will be brought up later. But the big reveal of the week was that the snooping dude from Chicago turned out to be Wallace’s dad. I don’t know how I didn’t see it coming when the dude mentioned to Keith that Alicia had something of his. The small hint of the week could have been revealed by Meg’s little sister saying that there was something on Meg’s secret computer that would make her parents pull the plug. I’m really hoping that Meg comes out of her coma sooner rather than later because that can only up the intensity, but I have a feeling it will happen later.

With Veronica getting her hand on a voice mail from the bus as it went over the edge along with Wallace and his father and possibly the returning Casablancas, Veronica Mars looks like it will be better than Lost next week especially when Lost is already looking ahead three weeks. Granted I won’t be watching either as they will coincide with Game 4 of the World Series, so I will watching both Thursday barring any VCR mishaps like the one that stopped recording Smallville 45 minutes in.