Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 6hThese guys started saying “AI” because it was a cool term from scifi for a thing everyone thought was cool. It became a term for a thing that sucks because they started using it to describe a thing that sucks so bad 020
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonWallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Toni Morrison, “Sula” (Bantam, 1975), with cover art by Roger Kastel. 0103
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 12hUltimate PUA fail state. Level of incelibacy they didn’t even have when he was working 030
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 14hThis is also the formula for a lot of classic superhero stuff from around the same time. I first learned about Shelley’s “Ozymandias” from Watchmen, but Roy Thomas also quoted it in full in an issue of Avengers in 1968 030
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18hI'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough. 471768317
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 18hOkay I got one: I think one of my real “lefty enough to make people mad” thing is that it should be a medium-term policy goal to get as many people out of small towns and into big cities as possible. For a bunch of reasons. 010
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 18hI’m trying to come up with a good one—sometimes it’s hard to locate these within oneself until you find yourself in an argument—but meanwhile it’s so funny to see the two types of QT here. Half “my so-called ‘woke’ opinion is that POOR people deserve to LIVE 😤” and half “LSD should be compulsory” 140
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 19hAn October story from Robert Walser (1914) 2319
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Of course this all rests on Terry O’Quinn’s generationally great performance, his ability to perfectly balance Malding Locke and Knife Genius Locke and make both of them fun to watch in every scene, and his perfect screen chemistry with Jack, Ben, Charlie, Claire, Boone, Sawyer, Eko and others. GOAT 140
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026His whole life turned out to be a time-traveling long con to set him up as a messiah so the black smoke could set up the perfect murder. Still this doesn’t quite resolve the question of “is Locke right?” Of course he’s WRONG—almost everyone on this show is always wrong about everything—and yet… 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All of this orbits around the show’s biggest trick, where it shows you Locke’s corpse, shows you his undignified death in a sleazy motel room, follows that up with episodes called “Whatever Happened, Happened” and “Dead Is Dead,” and still convinces the audience that he isn’t really dead. He’s dead! 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/20261. LOCKE: Every major question in the show reduces to “is Locke right?” Whether you think Locke is right depends whether you privilege Serene Island Shaman Locke or Seething Bald Idiot Locke, two figures who exist in perfect superposition from “Walkabout” straight past his death to the finale. 110
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly. 1661637118
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It was a combination of factors but I do think Lost was one of them. One way to look at it is Lost was cooking up a synthesis of the classic TV drama and the ascendant HBO prestige format, and both the network-heads and the prestige-cels largely revolted against it, so that avenue got abandoned 010
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don’t think that’s a coincidence—it killed the format! People kept getting so mad every time it did normal TV stuff like “developing the story based on what was and wasn’t working” that they had to invent a new, worse kind of show to satisfy people’s expectations, and that’s how we got Dark 130
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lost being ninety hours long is of course a feature, not a bug, but if you carved out the seven episodes that comprise Desmond’s spacetime odyssey, you’d have one of the best shortform shows of all time, and it’s the most obvious antecedent to Lindelof’s later, tighter masterpiece The Leftovers. 240
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 07/10/20262. DESMOND: If you’re a mysterycel, your favorite scene of the show is probably a Desmond scene. If you’re a friends-we-made-along-the-way cuck, your favorite scene of the show is probably a Desmond scene. I don’t even know if the screencaps are a necessary visual aid here. So that’s two data points 130
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20263. HURLEY: The show does right by Hugo. You might expect his star to fade when the show floors the accelerator and stops doing as many comic beach B-plots, but instead he just gets more and more central to the story until he becomes God in the finale, without ever becoming less fun or lovable. 140
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 06/10/2026a giant.variety.comEva Marie Saint, ‘North by Northwest’ Star, Dies at 102Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in such memorable classic films as “On the Waterfront” and “North by Northwest,” has died. 214338
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonLee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Doing some of my all-time worst work on Discord 011
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ben is a perfect little stinker as a villain, and his later journey to humility—but, pointedly, not quite redemption; he’s still outside the church—is wonderfully hard-earned, both by his own suffering and the suffering he continues to inflict on the people who risk putting their faith in him. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20264. BEN: Watching Ben makes me understand all those Tumblr fanart freaks who are always talking about how they love seeing their comfort characters get tortured. Ben regularly getting his face caved in by larger men is an essential motif of the show; it’s even how he “awakens” in the flash-sideways. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If we were just going by season 1 - 4, she might honestly be #1. But Yunjin Kim is such a forceful screen presence, and can express so much with a glance or a few words, that she’s totally captivating even when, as in most of the show after 316, she’s mostly just being used as ensemble filler. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20265. SUN: The Lostpedia article on “the A-Team” helpfully notes that Sun is originally a “B-Team” character, but becomes an “A-Team” character because she “becomes powerful” over the course of the show. This is a ludicrous understatement. Sun becomes 10x as powerful in every successive arc, like Goku. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Faraday’s macro-level arc is tidy in all the right ways, messy in all the right ways, and gets right to the core themes of the show. Like most of Lost’s characters, he turns out to be dead wrong at the crucial moment. But his mistake—thinking that humans have agency—reflects a beautiful higher truth 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20266. FARADAY: The only reason he’s this low is episode count. He’s perfect. Every line reading and facial contortion is a gift to me from both Jeremy Davies and God. I love that he never takes off his stupid tie the whole time he’s on the Island. I love his dipshit flash sideways hat. I just love him! 120
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comBojack Horseman Contemplating the NightAlt: Bojack Horseman Contemplating the Night 020
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20267. JACK SHEPHARD, M.D. Some of you won’t understand this placement, but it’s not my job to educate you. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20268. SAWYER On my latest rewatch I was shocked to find that I liked “Confidence Man” more than “Walkabout.” Sawyer is maybe the character who feels most complete from the beginning—his Dostoevskian drive for self-punishment is pure Lindelof wheelhouse—and his arc through season 5 is nearly flawless. 100
Reposted by Lee Cronin’s The MummylonHeat (1995) @heatfilm1995.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When I think of asses, a woman’s ass… something comes out of me. 019554
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026An unspoken, really dark irony of the show is that Juliet dies setting off The Incident and is maybe responsible for the reproductive plague that brings her to the Island in the first place, killing all those mothers and children she couldn’t save. Just as tragic a causal loop as Daniel & Eloise’s. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/20269. JULIET: Maybe the greatest mystery on Lost is what’s lurking behind Juliet’s enigmatic little smirk. Elizabeth Mitchell is a real “chemistry with everyone” actress and elevates all her screen partners (not least Kate!), but you always feel there are hidden depths there that nobody else can reach. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202610. CHARLIE: His sacrifice is the thematic lynchpin of the show—didn’t the whole thing turn out to be about facing death with serenity?—and his comebacks as a ghost haunting Hurley and in the Flash Sideways are so heartbreaking as to be almost unfair. But also, for the record, “Fire & Water” is good 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202611. ANTHONY COOPER: Stands head-and-shoulders above the other Bad Dads both in pure abuse stats and in how much fun he had doing it. My only possible quibble is that I think he should have physically and emotionally hurt Locke even more — and I think they should have let him take a shot at Jack, too 220
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202612. JIN: Daniel Dae Kim, while acting entirely in a language he doesn’t speak, took this character from “He’s Abusive For An Amazing Reason” to “Public Universal Friend” in like two seasons. That’s the kind of performance that catapults you to network TV Godhood alongside the likes of David Boreanaz 120
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202613. EKO: An awesome one-season run as the Coolest Guy Ever ends ambiguously, seen in retrospect of season 6: did Eko die because his benevolent strength made him a threat to the black smoke, or because his hubris got him crossed off Jacob’s list, or both? What does it really mean to regret nothing? 120
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202614. ELOISE: Another person who seems at first like she might be God but is just a weirdo, the story of Eloise The Time Witch working for decades to ensure that she kills her son in the past is fascinating, deeply sad, and drives half the story of the show. More importantly, she’s SO fucking cool… 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202615. The show slowly positions Richard as the guy with all the answers, then slowly peels back that he’s actually the most confused man on the Island. It’s such a delight to see him get jumpscared by time travelers and ghosts for fifty years in season 5 before utterly losing his shit in season 6. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202616. CLAIRE — The show wisely doesn’t insist too much on Claire’s inner strength. She’s way too young, mostly helpless, and kind of stupid—but she’s set to the sacred work of motherhood, and the kindness and support she draws out of the rest of the cast can never be half as much as she deserves. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202617. ETHAN ROM—Lost’s bullshit at its best: this evil obstetrician dies in his fourth appearance, and then appears in 11 more episodes. We are present for his birth, we see him as a little boy, we visit him in the afterlife. Compellingly, we still learn almost nothing about him or what makes him tick 130
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202618. MILES — A perfect mid-run charisma infusion into the cast; he never insists on himself too much, and even his showcase episode is largely about Hurley, but you’re always happy to find he’s survived another episode, and by the time he gets away with the jewels you can’t imagine life without him. 110
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202619. ALEX — Does Walt have a slingshot? For that matter, do any of the adults? Alex is the scampish child-hero we demanded: constantly running around doing Peter Pan shit, getting into and out of trouble—until she gets summarily executed in one of the most shocking, impactful deaths in the show. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202621. SAYID — The zombie arc is a travesty, and his unconvincing love montage in The End just reflects how oddly situated he is within the main cast—“Solitary,” as it were—but Sayid is, baseline, the coolest guy in the world and gets loads of great material. Should have died after shooting young Ben. 120
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202622. RADZINSKI — Introduced as a shotgun stain on the Swan ceiling, and when you finally meet the guy three seasons later, every single thing he says and does seems to be hurtling him towards the moment when he pulls the trigger. Would be the most malding guy on any show without John Locke in it. 100
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just rewatched Labyrinth, magic is literally real. 000
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202623. ROSE & BERNARD — Our stand-ins for the casual Lost fans: Ordinary, honest folks who fade in and out until eventually they only show up on the finales to say stuff like “so Jack has a bomb. So what?” In real life these people are despicable worms, but these actors find a strange nobility in them… 120
Lee Cronin’s The Mummylon @mamylon.bsky.social · 06/10/202624. MIKHAIL — The unstoppable Cyclops who brings down the ocean to keep our Odezzeus from reaching his Penelope. Fans of the page will know I’m a sucker for a hammy “evil Russian” type, and I love how he keeps dying and then just showing up again like a slasher villain or Resident Evil boss. 130
