Well it doesn’t appear that The Lost Room will be picked up by Sci-Fi Channel as an ongoing television series. It is too bad in some sense, it is probably better that way in another.
It’s too bad in the sense that they had a really really good story premise. The idea of objects from a lost hotel room was great, and the powers that they had were kinda cool, and yet not too unrealistic. Some were worthwhile, some weren’t and that is how it should be. There was a good mystery behind the show. Why do these objects do the things they do? How were they created? Who was the Occupant? And what is the whole purpose of it? I really was drawn to the show. I wanted to know what was going on and why everything was happening. And I wanted to find more objects and see what they could do.
Yet I can’t help that perhaps it’s better left the way it is. I can’t help but think that the whole show was leading up to a let down, not unlike Lost which had a great season or two but has turned out to be a stale program with nowhere to go until cancelation looms, so that you are more eager for the cancelation than the next episode so that you can see what is going on. The unfortunate part of any mystery show is that they won’t let go of the big secret until the show is done, and that is the only reason you watch most of the time. Other problems abounded the show. It often times contained lackluster writing, and often poor acting. I liked the main three actors of the show, and a couple of the secondary ones, but some (like Ruber) were downright aweful. I for some reason highly doubt that had the show gotten picked up that the three main actors would have come back full time. They might have shown up as cameos from time to time but they were too big of names and I think a story about an invincible man who doesn’t want to be part of the objects would be rather boring in time. I thought that the best chances for a main character in the show following the mini-series included Weasel (the guy who started the show with the pen), the black woman cop (who was barely in the show but they used in the last part to investigate Joe and Ruber which was thoroughly unneeded in the mini-series so I think they were using it to set up the series), or even Wally (though he seemed to not really want to be involved in anything that had to do with the objects, he liked his and just wanted to live his life as normallya s possible, this again would make for a bad show premise). Of course the other option may have been to have the show center around one of the cabals, the one that Angelina Margaloius was in, as a way to have a drive in the show towards an end. Still none of these is totally satisfying because they don’t include what made the mini-series good so I don’t know how they would have rectified this.
Still it is a shame. I have become obsessed with the idea of a universe with powerful objects and am now sitting here trying to think of how I am supposed to do it without ripping it off outright. I would love to see the Lost Room turned into a book or comic series, but due to the fact that it was made for a failed mini-series I don’t see this happening. So my want is to really replace The Lost Room with a similar series, without ripping it off. This is difficult. There isn’t a good way to do it, and I don’t even really know how they were doing it in the show anyway. The idea is you want this mystical series with realistic undercurrents so that it isn’t too strange. I also feel like I can’t just name things “The Pen” anymore because of the show which is a shame because I think they really did a cool thing by having them named simply like that.
Oh well.