does anyone care about lost?

[Wildcard6]

I have never watched Lost. And till the day I die I will be able to say that. I saw the ads back when the series was about to air and just thought.. No. And how can they still be defined as lost? They all know where they are. On some godforsaken island in the Pacific. And I assume they've all gotten settled in by now.
The writers should have gone more Lord of the Flies. Quite frankly I think it would be hilarious if that fat bastard Hurley had his head caved in by a boulder.

So, you've never watched the show, you don't plan on ever watching it, but you have specific ideas about how it should be written. It sounds to me like you should be reviewing video games for Fox News.

 

[Talisker]

I got through the first season and half of the second then thought "to hell with this". My time could be better spent watching something that seemed to be going somewhere...... did they get off the island?

 

[The Reverend]

I have never watched Lost. And till the day I die I will be able to say that. I saw the ads back when the series was about to air and just thought.. No. And how can they still be defined as lost? They all know where they are. On some godforsaken island in the Pacific. And I assume they've all gotten settled in by now.
The writers should have gone more Lord of the Flies. Quite frankly I think it would be hilarious if that fat bastard Hurley had his head caved in by a boulder.

So, you've never watched the show, you don't plan on ever watching it, but you have specific ideas about how it should written. It sounds to me like you should be reviewing video games for Fox News.

I said gone, past tense. Hell, they can write how like it, and I shall call it how I see it. Or rather don't see it, in this case. I know enough from the background of the show and all the related hype and hearsay to know I don't want to watch it. I haven't watched Swedish dungeon porn, but I know enough about it to formulate an opinion about it.

 

[goestoeleven]

Lost is the best show on television. And I was one of the people who thought it looked stupid and pointless and convoluted for two years. But I gave it a chance, and by the fourth episode of the first season, it was my favorite new show. It fluctuates in quality, as do all shows, but when it's hitting the mark, it's incredible. The mystery, the characters, the action, even the cinematography is top notch. I mean, yeah, you're being strung along, manipulated, purposely kept in the dark - that's obvious from the first episode, but that's okay, that's why you watch the show. When the entire point of a show is to elicit this feeling of "What the hell is going on here?!" then it's not in the writers' best interests to tell everyone so it changes to "Oh, that's what the hell is going on. Okay."

And as for running out of ideas... the head writers had a decent idea of what was going to happen before they started writing the show. That's not to say that they know everything in great detail, but they're not just making it up as they go along.

Oh, and I hated Alias, so it's not like I'm a blind fan of this kind of thing.

Just my two cents.

And as for the FOX News comparison, it's different in this case, because here, people are saying "From the hearsay, I've decided that I don't want to watch it," as opposed to "From the hearsay, I've decided that you shouldn't watch it." It's their own choice not to watch it, even if it something I think just about everyone should give a shot.

 

[Fraggedrabbit]

Don't watch it. Wasn't there Polar Bears on the island at one point?

I hope they all die on that island.

Not just the characters either...

 

[Arbre]

I never understood what made that show so great.
The character writing is between bland and tastable, and the pseudo mystique is stretched (milking here we go).
The cloud monster was much more frightening when it wasn't shown. Now it's just a CGI particle cloud. Weepee.

You can't trade this show for Deadwood or Nip Tuck.

 

[JakubK666]

Lost is the best show on television. And I was one of the people who thought it looked stupid and pointless and convoluted for two years. But I gave it a chance, and by the fourth episode of the first season, it was my favorite new show. It fluctuates in quality, as do all shows, but when it's hitting the mark, it's incredible. The mystery, the characters, the action, even the cinematography is top notch. I mean, yeah, you're being strung along, manipulated, purposely kept in the dark - that's obvious from the first episode, but that's okay, that's why you watch the show. When the entire point of a show is to elicit this feeling of "What the hell is going on here?!" then it's not in the writers' best interests to tell everyone so it changes to "Oh, that's what the hell is going on. Okay."

IMO The first season of Prison Break is a lot more fast-paced than Lost. I haven't watched Two or Three yet but the fact that...

SPOILER ALERT!

they end up in another prison in season three

SPOILER OVER

sounds like bullshit to me.

 

[BigNiceJohn]

I think announcing that they have an end date for the series has helped the Lost writers, because season 2 and half of season 3 really dragged. Knowing what points they have to get to and when really prevents the show from getting bogged down in the rambling, meandering episodes that caused people to turn it off sometime in season two or three. Until the last few episodes, there are always going to be more questions than answers... and I may be a masochist, but I like it that way.

 

[CanadianWolverine]

Seeing the latest Lost episode last night, I made the hard choice afterwards of either watching Firefly, Odyssey 5, or Heroes to make up for the lack of movement in the "mystery" of my lady's favorite show. Half-life gives us more clues about G-man than this show does about what makes the island and Lost characters so special. On top of all that it seems every season goes something like this for the antagonists: "Oh no, the Others! No, that was last season, the other Others. No, no, no, not those Others, these Others, they are so last season. What do you mean we still haven't explained the first Others, let alone the second? Look, possessed smoke! *phew* That was close, so should we hire more soap writers yet? Oh right, they're on strike too..."

 

[Larenxis]

I have no respect for this show.

SPOILER ALERT!

They have a Russian in scuba gear holding a grenade. I mean c'mon!

SPOILER OVER

But I'll keep on watching it. Mostly because it's pretty and I have HD.

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

short answer: no
long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *takes breath* ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[quack35]

I do like the show, but I didn't watch much of the last season.

 

[Gooble]

I watched from the last 2 episodes of series 1, to I think the beginning of series 4, when it started getting extremely crazy. When you had the Others, and then the people from the tail section, and that computer in the bunker, then at least stuff was making relative (very relative) sense and you could actually think about what was going to happen in the future, but then it started having flash forwards and became just utterly bewildering and hence, shit.

 

[Kajt]

No, seems quite uninteresting.

Jaffa, kree!

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I still watch it, because I'm not a quitter.

 

[Avida]

I do, and im up to date - though im starting to get really rather pissy about the fact that NOONE EVER ANSWERS ANY QUESTION, EVER, even whens its perfectly sodding reasonable. Btw;

Spoiler

wtf is going on with the time paradox right now :s

Thanks for telling when it'll be released in America(?) that means i'll be able to tease my british friends about it for months now