Do you think the Emmys lost the plot?
In picture: The Lost cast in 2005 after winning the "Outstanding Drama Series" award. Unfortunately, 2008 did not bring a repeat of such success.
The dust has now somewhat settled after Sunday's Emmy awards, though I notice some are still in uproar at some of the decisions. To be honest, the whole process confused me as I thought Lost was nominated for more than two major awards, but apparently that's not the case.
Relevance and controversy to Lost seems to surround the "Outstanding Supporting Actor In a Drama Series" award (note, Terry O'Quinn won this last year), and the "Outstanding Drama Series" award (Lost won this back in 2005). Should Emerson have won the supporting actor award though in your opinion? A number of blogs I found through Google seem to think so, and though I don't know the other nominees other than Shatner, I do think Emerson does a fantastic job. Hopefully next year he'll get the recognition he deserves!
What about outstanding drama series? Should Mad Men have won? I seem to find divided opinion - some blogs are very much in favor of the decision for a well-crafted show with great momentum. Meanwhile, others claim it was a poor choice, citing arguments such as that it airs on an obscure cable network with "anaemic" ratings (quote from "The Australian" online newspaper). Surely it's quality not quantity though, eh? What's your opinion as not-so-objective fans? Do you respect the choices, or believe a travesty has been committed? Or do you hold to the fact that nomination is satisfactory recognition in itself?
5 comments:
Emerson was completely & totally robbed. What makes it worse is that if someone was going to beat him, it really should have been Ted Danson, who was fantastic in "Damages".
I have given up on "Lost" winning a Best Drama award at the Emmy or Golden Globe award shows. It is seen as a sci-fi show watched by a massive cult following and will not be taken seriously again by voters.
I also think those voters are all massive d-bags for thinking that.
"It is seen as a sci-fi show watched by a massive cult following and will not be taken seriously again by voters."
If that was true, then "LOST" would have never won Best Drama, three years ago. Nor would Terry O'Quinn would have won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama, last year.
The show lost the Best Drama award, because "MAD MEN" was simply better. I know. I saw both Season 4 of "LOST" and the first season of "MAD MEN".
Emerson's name was carved on that emmy long ago. He's been robbed of a much deserved recognition for his work twice so far, frankly it's outrageous.
As far as Outstanding drama series...I never liked Mad Men which I usually eplained saying that as a non american viewer, a lot of the cultural references and the interest of the storyline itself was lost to me. I love lost, as well as House and most of the other nomineed shows so I think honestly one of them should have taken the award home. I I agree that Lost might be husr by the perception it's a sci-fi show (which didn't hurt Heroes after season one though) which just goes to show these awards are a con.
Hope we have more enlightened voters next year.
The Emmys are getting to be like the Oscars more and more every year with the obscure crap that few people watch getting the top awards. That being said the end date of Lost is in siteand I'm betting that for the final season that Lost will win most, if not a total sweep, of anything it is nominated for. I don't know if anyone else remembers but that same thing happened with the Lord of the Rings trilogy at the Oscars years ago.
Should LOST have to wait for it's final season to get recognized. The show won nothing this year. The show was only nominated for 5 awards this year and they only took home an award for sound mixing. How is this possible? The show is consistently ranked one of the best shows on television and it's only nominated for two major awards? I'm pretty sure crapola like Desperate Housewives gets more attention from Emmy voters than LOST.
It's just sad that the Emmy voters can't see the groundbreaking show they have sitting right in front of them. In ten years, nobody is going to know what Mad Men was. Everyone is going to remember LOST.
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