Posted on 05/11/2014 8:17:14 PM PDT by EveningStar
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Has it really been 10 years since that show premiered? Wow.
Lost is one of those shows that I kept meaning to see, but never got around to watching. I just don’t do much in the way of television.
But it was cheat, and I gave up on it after a while because they never explained anything, like the smoke monster.
At the very beginning the creators swore that the passengers weren't all dead. Then in the very last episode we find out they were dead all along.
I'm glad I gave up on it after a couple of seasons.
They’ve already admitted some time ago that they basically made the whole thing up as they went along. They wrote themselves into corners several times, and never had an overall vision of where the show was going to go (c.f. J. Michael Straczynski).
we loved th show...dialogue was great....great sweaty actors and actresses....but at the end of the day, we feel dirty and cheated by it.....
we knew they were in some kind of purgatory from the very beginning....
I can't get involved in another series like this..that never ends....we do watch Justified but most things are cleared up within a couple of episodes....
They WEREN’T dead at the time they said that; they were defining that the whole planeload of people did not die on day when when the plane crashed. They WERE dead by the time of the parallel timeline in Purgatory.
The guy who played the doctor was on one of the late night programs. He said the cast and crew didn’t expect the series to last longer than 4 or 5 episodes.
Instead, it was a hit and the writers went into crisis mode to pump out scripts.
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I watched it through the first season and lost interest. It did seem to be made up.
For several episodes, we saw the waving grass. Eventually, it was revealed that a polar bear cub was causing that. In later episodes, we have more waving grass. Shock and surprise — another polar bear. yawnnnnnnnn.
Then, every episode seemed to center around alpha males challenging alpha males for leadership. yawnnnnnn
They never bothered to initially search the island. How did they even know they landed on an island? Maybe, there was a thriving city on the other side. They never got around to exploring until late in the season.
From what I heard and read, it got even more bizarre after I quit watching.
Lindelof cheats on stories. He sets things up then destroys the setup as if it was a smart twist.
Same thing he did with Promethius.
Don't bother. I watched almost all of the first season and got so frustrated I quit watching. For example, early in the show there was something HUGE shaking the trees near their camp. I never did find out what it was. In another episode, a black cloud of smoke comes racing up to within an inch of the girl's face, stops, stays for a few seconds, and then immediately heads back into the woods. Know what it was? Neither do I. As far as I could see, they ran out of ideas so they made things like this up to fill up the hour...repeatedly, but never felt the need to tell the audience what it was about.
cultural legacy?
not much
OK, Hugo weighs about 400 pounds.
And the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 are living on mangos and other tropical fruit, the occasional stringy wild boar and water, all while fighting this strenuous day-to-day battle for survival.
And the guy seems to *gain* weight as weeks go by.
Watch it on Netflix and the real fun is pointing out the absurdities: most recently, Hugo located and old VW van (’that had to have been rotting since Rocky II) and the boys get it running. Yeah, oh boy.
One of the best shows in the entire history of television, bar none.
I’ve watched it from beginning to end more than ten times, and enjoyed it every time.
Immensely clever and extremely well-acted.
you are correct imo - they had a basic plot, and did write themselves into corners all along
my favorite show of all time. i felt cheated by the ending like most but the journey to get there was amazing. great acting and scripts. made you think. missing in most of today’s shows.
Gilligan’s Island reworked as a drama.
I’ve always wondered why people ignore, or even celebrate, ridiculous plot twists in daytime soaps while assuming that primetime productions are above such things.
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