To make a long post short...

Do me a favor everyone, stop saying, “to make a long story short.” If your goal is actually to make the story shorter, you just screwed up and added an extra 5 seconds to your long winded story. Please, just let me believe that you are going to try to make every story you tell to me as concise as possible. I’ll be the judge of when a story gets too long….
After the end of the show “Lost,” I heard about how wonderful the show was. I decided to go back and watch the series from the beginning. After the last show, I heard many people and critics express surprise that all of the people on the island were actually already dead and in purgatory or something. What the fuck were these people watching? About 90% of the dialogue is about some sort of religion and there are even characters that explain people are not on the list because they aren’t good people. How many clues do you need to let you know that this is some kind of heaven/hell scenario? I guess the relative surprise speaks to the dumbing down of the country. Remember when movies and other stories had subtle foreshadowing of the ending and people got it? Now, a character tells you that they are only taking the good people to live with them and you are surprised at the ending? I guess the art of perception is dying...