My owners are simple creatures. They both spend an inordinate amount of time staring at monitors and dispatching their job related inanities from their keyboards! When they come home, after opening my tin and their own, we devour our respective meals, and all retire to the living room.
Thankfully they are not interested in the sorts of programmes that involve the caterwauling of talentless wannabes, or the antics of "soap opera" characters. But, I have been periodically subjected to their sporadic devotion to certain long running American TV series' such as "Lost", "Mad Men" or comedies such as "The Big Bang Theory". In addition my female owner irritatingly insists on subjecting me to any "corset wearing" costume drama/film ever made, seemingly with "Pride & Prejudice" on continual loop! Such programmes offer nothing to me, since they are invariably devoid of any substantive Catty-Kin characters.
I am currently suffering my way through "Downton Abbey" where the only Cat on screen is a scavenging kitchen Cat forever being abused by the below stairs staff - what lazy stereotyping!
Being simple creatures, they became disenchanted with "Lost" and gave up watching it, because they said that it had "become boring and convoluted". Judging from their often perplexed expressions, I would surmise that it was more a case of they could not fathom what was going on!
For those of you unfamiliar, "Lost" was an American television six-season series which follows the lives of various individuals and groups of people, most importantly the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline on the island, as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life. The problem for my owners seemed to be keeping up with the jumping-back-and-forth timelines!
They had the same problems with The Star Wars franchise and I have kept them away from "Heroes" et al to spare their blushes. For those of you old enough to remember, "Twin Peaks" nearly finished them off, and watching them struggle with films like "Memento" or "Mulholland Drive" was frankly painful!
Anyway, back to "Lost". Since Cats are supposed to be able to sense death, I could have told them that I knew that all the characters were in fact dead from the start, and that everything else was merely a story about being "in limbo" but I did not want to patronise. Since there are not alone in their confusion, and web-forums abound with discussion from similarly bemused humans, Catty-Kin have enacted a One minute synopsis of the whole six series of "Lost" for your cerebrally-challenged minds to understand.
To quote another bewhiskered genius, Simples!
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