# Anyone Still Watch Lost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844 "2007-05-20T20:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/1 "2007-05-20T20:47:56Z")
Even as an iPod season ticket holder, so to speak, I totally lost interest after last year’s (I think) Michael’s senseless killing over the whole missing Walt thing, just did not ring true to me. Haven’t watched an epi since. Anyone else power through that crap and are looking forward to the upcoming season finale? ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/2 "2007-05-20T20:51:10Z")
You haven’t been paying attention to the “Lost” threads here in CS have you? The first half of season III were a little weak, but the last half-dozen or so have been awesome - like, season I good! ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/3 "2007-05-20T20:53:01Z")
I just started this year. I occasionally have to ask “who is this guy?” or “where did he come from?”, but I like the show. This week, my friends and I are having a LOST potluck. I’m making biscuits in the shape of fish! ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/4 "2007-05-20T21:02:05Z")
I was a huge fan for the first season and a half, roughly. But I knew my fandom was waning when I never bothered buy the 2nd season on DVD, even after watching the first season so much I practically wore out the discs. A few weeks ago, for the first time, I missed an episode (the Nikki and Paulo one) and never bothered to go back and watch it online. And now I’ve for one reason or another completely forgotten to watch or tape the past 3 episodes. I still plan to go back and catch up, eventually, but am not that enthusiastic about it. Even when the episodes are good, I just don’t care that much about these people or their ‘mythology’ any more. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/5 "2007-05-20T21:13:52Z")
The first 3/4 of Season 3 was **incredibly** weak, and then it bounced back in a major, major way and got awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/6 "2007-05-20T21:15:13Z")
Theres always a lost thread here every week usually with at least 4 pages of posts. I’d say people are still watching. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/7 "2007-05-20T21:15:36Z")
I’m still watching. Even when I get annoyed at the paucity of satisfactory answers and the plenitude of new mysteries, the show holds my interest, and I find it more entertaining than most of what’s on network TV. ---
**Author:** ![8675309](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ea5d25/32.png) [@8675309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/8675309)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/8 "2007-05-20T21:32:15Z")
I quit watching halfway through the second season. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/9 "2007-05-20T21:44:17Z")
No I stop a year and a half ago. The plot is good for a year at most and they streched it out to where waiting for water to boil is more interesting. I haven’t seem the same material redited and released that much since Bugs Bunny. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/10 "2007-05-20T21:46:23Z")
Apparently a shitload of people are “still watching Lost” both IRL and on this board. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/11 "2007-05-20T21:49:22Z")
[QUOTE=8675309] I quit watching halfway through the second season. [/QUOTE] Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/12 "2007-05-20T22:25:24Z")
They almost lost (heh) me this season but as noted above the last several episodes have been very good and some questions have actually been answered. With a finite and known number of episodes left, and with the creators continuing to claim that they know where they want to end up, I have some hopes for its continued goodness for its last 49 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/13 "2007-05-21T01:02:49Z")
Really? Lost is better than ever now. Only the first few episodes of this season were less than excellent. I’m surprised people have quit. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/14 "2007-05-21T01:26:58Z")
Didn’t they take a big break after the string of crappy episodes? I think people just didn’t bother going back. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/15 "2007-05-21T02:41:45Z")
I managed to power through the “unhappy times” and am enjoying the awesomeness now. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/16 "2007-05-21T02:42:59Z")
I gave up after Season 2, but my wife still watches. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/17 "2007-05-21T02:49:02Z")
Lost actually got good again??? I stopped watching with the first episode after the winter hiatus, right around the point where they find this kid being tortured Clockwork-Orange style with techno music and bible quotes…in some random building on the island. I personally thought the first half of season 3 sucked, and I was all ready to give up for good until I read in Entertainment Weekly that the return was going to be “season 1 good” and “watch it, trust us, even if you hated where the show went, you’ll love it” which is why I’m a bit skeptical about the people in here calling it season 1 good. Feel free to spoil-box it, but what did they do to make the show good again? I know they haven’t gotten rid of the pointless flashbacks yet and from what I’ve heard, they’re still adding more questions than answers, so I wouldn’t call either of those aspects _good_. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/18 "2007-05-21T03:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] Feel free to spoil-box it, but what did they do to make the show good again? I know they haven’t gotten rid of the pointless flashbacks yet and from what I’ve heard, they’re still adding more questions than answers, so I wouldn’t call either of those aspects _good_. [/QUOTE] Mostly spoiler-free: The action began moving very quickly. Each episode is chock full of plot rather than just spinning its wheels. They may still be introducing more questions than answers, I haven’t really compared, but they are giving a _lot_ more answers than they used to. They’ve started doing flashbacks for characters that haven’t had them before, introducing entirely new perspectives rather than simply filling in the holes of old ones. There have been certain resolutions, like Sawyer finally found the guy that caused his dad to do a murder-suicide, and Locke resolved his own personal daddy issuesthat were long in coming. Some things still haven’t been addressed from the first season – in particular, we still don’t know what the Tree-Crushing Monster _is_ – but now that they’ve finally successfully negotiated an end date for the series, I’m reasonably certain we’ll get those answers in due time. Really, the show is simply fast-moving and suspenseful (the good kind of suspenseful) once again. The writers realized what was turning people off and have moved away from that. ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/19 "2007-05-21T03:26:09Z")
We also found out that The Others were definitely not part of the Dharma Initiative, except for Ben and a few others who turn-coated Dharma to join the Hostiles/Others. I thought that was pretty important anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844/20 "2007-05-21T05:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Lost is better than ever now. Only the first few episodes of this season were less than excellent. [/QUOTE] I totally disagree with this. While it’s true they’re much better than they have been, they will never be able to reclaim the wonder and mystery that captivated audiences back in Season 1, and arguably the first half of Season 2. That boat has sailed, and Lost is now just treading water… …and will be for three more years _sigh_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-still-watch-lost/404844.md?page=2)