I’m still hanging in there interest wise. I’m patiently waiting to see if Locke go round the bend and if Libby is what she seems.
Although as someone who watched every episode of the X-Files I have a high tolerance for episodic television pain. 
I was 8 episodes behind on Season 2 (I think my earliest unwatched ep was from November.) I caught up this weekend and with the exception of the latest episode (Not another dreamy “am I crazy?” episode again, ARRGH!!), they were all good. It took me a bit to get interested in the second group of survivors though. And now they’re fading into the background already, like what happened with the black lady and her husband? Haven’t seen them much.
Lost is very interesting, but I think one big problem with this show is they keep introducing new characters, and they keep replaying the past of so many characters bit by bit. Maybe I can deal with the replays but why introduce the second group of survivors when so many of the current group are anonymous background scenery?
So many loose ends.
By the way, what was up with Shannon’s death? They seemed to have a thing in season 1 that indicated that she’d somehow surprise us - Boone saying “You don’t understand, she’s special…” I was expecting some sort of Walt-powers-like revelation. Instead, she just got killed, ultimately serving no purpose in the show other than to have a nice ass.
Stuff like that makes it seem like they’re just making it up as they go along rather than have a plan.
You can’t plan for everything, you shouldn’t, else reality intercedes and you lose actors or something. I think they do have a broad plan. They know what the island is, who the others are, etc, but they’re playing fast and loose with how they show it to us. IOW, they knew that the hatch had a man down there continually typing the numbers, but they didn’t know that Boone would die towards the end of season one.
I’m still very much interested, but I’m frustrated with the rate the episodes are dripping out. I also hate that nobody on this damn island is at all curious. Maybe they’re all scared and preoccupied with survival, but it doesn’t seem that way. They should’ve sent another mapping party. They should have made the Crazy French Lady answer some more questions. They should acknowledge more that this island is seriously screwed up!
Anyway, I still dig it.
Every popular show has a bunch of people who say “I loved the show but it sucked after the third episode.” Of course I’m not talking about you.
I may have a slightly different point of view. I was out of the country for most of the first season. I have only seen a few episodes. Just enough to get hooked. I got the DVDs for Christmas but I have not been able to catch up yet. I hav not missed an episode of this season. I love the show. Maybe you are all spoiled from season one? It is still one of the best shows on TV. And yes I am worried that it is going to fizzle out or get drawn out too long.
I still watch and keep track of the internet clues, but all the commercials and breaks are starting to bug. I don’t mind character development and such, but they don’t spend enough time on the actual show to make things progress at a decent pace.
The the commercials are annoying, especially when they’re making the show run long. But they’re what pays for the show so I can’t complain but so much. Best answer is not to watch it live, tape it or Tivo it. I caught up from November in my spare time last week and this weekend. Around 40 minutes per episode without commercials.
I’m not trying to be elitist or anything, I want it to be good - I want to be swept up in it like I was a year ago, it has just been dissapointing me as it becomes more and more clear that it’s likely to never be resolved in a satisfying way.
Actually, it was said they had a five-to-six year story arc planned. But then, as others have pointed out, ABC has more to say about that than anything. Although the arc may be there, though, each of the writers has some latitude as to the writing of the week to week episodes.
I have to agree. I think The 23[sup]rd[/sup]rd Psalm was the best Lost episode yet.
Myself, I have to disagree with a lot of people who get frustrated and/or upset when little to no new light is shed on the overall mysteries during an episode. The creators said that the show is more about the characters and their interactions than the going ons on the island (at first the show wasn’t even going to have such mysteries, just be a straight-out crash, survive, interact show). I’ll admit that some of the flashbacks have added relatively little to what you know, but they build the character and give a better feeling for who they are. Personally, I prefer having seen the end of Jack’s marriage, instead of guessing at it.
The main reason is to introduce the show to people who haven’t watched and to catch those up who have watched intermittedly. Which, all things considered, makes a lot of sense. The last clip show aired before a new episode anyway.
Like I said, I wasn’t talking about you.
I don’t need immediate resolution. I wouldn’t mind at all if they kept the revelations sparse so long as I had the feeling that it was going to end in some satisfactory way. But all I can get from season 2 is that they’re just making stuff up as they go along and that there will be no satisfactory ending.
That’s another thing - I don’t mind at all that the show is character driven. I enjoyed watching almost all of the character pieces from the first season. The second season, however, has become a lot worse in the quality department as far as characterization and stories too.
The problem with this, for me, is I don’t like the characters much. I think they are a bunch of incurious morons whose actions on the island have been those of rather stupid monkeys.
Hurley is funny. Eko is a badass. That’s about as affectionate as I can get about these people.
I’da thunk from the buzz this show had last season they could have just jacked up the price for commercials and actually gotten away with fewer commercials.
That is missing the point. I still can’t get anymore content that way, just less annoyed.
Which is a crying shame compared to the amount of time they need each week to keep the story moving.
The idiot suits at ABC are going to kill this series because of sheer greed. Bastards!
From what I understand there aren’t more commercials. They are just spread out over more commercial breaks. This is because some smart guy realized that no one was watching the commercials at the top of the hour. Now one show starts as soon as the other one ends but there is an extra break in the show. This is not just for Lost. The writers of various shows have complained because it makes it more difficult to write. They have to break up the narrative 5 times instead of 4.
I’m still watching.
I would say that I was a lot more excited last season than I am this season, but that may just be because the bloom is off the rose a bit. I have liked the episodes this year, even the ones that were generally disliked here. But last year I would watch the episodes if they repeated, and this year I’ll tape the repeat and watch it if I have the time. So, less of the compulsion that I felt before. Three years sounds good; if they could commit to that I’d have that feeling that every episode counted instead of feeling that they’re throwing ideas at the wall in the hope that something sticks.