I’m not ready today to give thoughts on the Lost finale or to say good-bye to the show, but I will offer something else instead.
The ‘Lost’ finale was broadcast in parts of Europe live at 5 and 6a.m. (!) Monday morning, simultaneous to its showing on the U.S. west coast. In Madrid ‘Lost’ fans arranged to watch it in a movie theatre, and Lostzilla, a Spanish fansite, asked me to record a quick video to be played before the show.
What they didn’t ask for was an unholy butchering of their sacred mother tongue. Sadly, however, that’s just what they got. And this from someone who even on his best day — which, mind you, was over twenty years ago — had trouble with ‘frijoles.’
Because I think we can all use a lift on a day after the show has ended, the horror of my home-recorded Spanish is here.