It’s not like we don’t have precedent. Remember Alias? That was pretty good, especially when Sydney learned she wasn’t really working for the C.I.A. But then they went all Rambaldi device on us and the show turned to crap.
I’m still watching “Lost.” I’m not as enthralled as I was at first, but I am nowhere near the point of walking away in disgust. There are some frustrations, but this show hasn’t jumped the shark yet, in my opinion. The shark is still circling, puzzled by the magnetic hoodoo.
I started watching this a couple of months ago, the Space channel is showing them in order daily. The Alliance has just been destroyed and they are digging deeper into the Rambaldi stuff, I can see this jumping the shark soon. I do like how the dance music comes on when it is “Dress Up” time for Sydney 
I like Lost. Really I do. But I’m getting sick of having to do so much work. There are so many little things to keep up on, and all they seem to do is add more little things to keep up on every week. They have a dozen really big important mysteries going on at once and I’m tired of them screwing with us and just adding more useless info to the mix.
I’m still watching, because the characters are interesting and I’m still hoping they go somewhere with it. But if this season doesn’t improve, I won’t be watching next season.
Sentient smoke cloud? Ghost-Walt? Viruses and vaccines? And will somebody please tell me why Locke was in a wheelchair?
Pro: It could be that not every diddly little question has to be answered. In the “Lost Questions” thread, one of the questions was, “How did Hurley get his nickname?” Well, no offense, but what does that have to do with the price of butter? Similarly, perhaps we never find out the origins of the four-toed statue. Do we have to? If even the Others don’t know, then perhaps it’s just meant to symbolize that this island is weird and freaky and weird, freaky people have been drawn to it since the dawn of time. And yes, it was aggravating to realize that we’ll almost certainly never know why Libby was in the mental hospital with Hurley. Oh no, she died with that knowledge, and now no one will ever know!
Well, I hate to say it, but that’s life. One thing I do like about this show is that no one ever gives a deathbed infodump; they just die and that’s it. I think some elements are meant to be like the burning train in WotW, or the watermelon in Buckaroo Banzai. They elicit a 
response, and you move on. We may never find out who the bodies in the cave were. The black/white symbolism thing may not have any deep significance. And I haven’t been doing any of the supplementary work. As I said to Boss last summer, "It’s all just made up by the writers. They put up all these videos and games, and there are people who groove on that stuff; good for them. But when it comes to it, whatever explanations we get will be what the writers made up. You’ll be able to reverse-engineer “explanations” from the website stuff when that happens. Right now, though, they could mean anything."
Con: I want to know why Locke was in a wheelchair. I was so thoroughly convinced that he had been under the deck when Hurley was on it, but based on Locke’s most recent flashback, that’s looking highly unlikely. And although I never tried to read anything into the numbers themselves*, I’m aggravated that they tied everything, for a season and a half, into them, and now…nothing. Every time they were referenced last season (“OMG! Three of the numbers are on the cop cars in the parking lot!”) I would smile and nod and think, “It doesn’t matter how often we see them; what matters is WHY they have to be input.” And now we don’t even know that, and we may never! WTFF? And I want to know why Locke was in a wheelchair. And I’m tired of seeing the Others abuse everyone. We get it; they’re mean. And I want to know why they wanted Claire’s baby; we know it was the Benry Others, not the teddy-bear Others, so there’s no excuse. And, like many, I’m tired of the Losties not comparing notes. And I want to know why Locke was in a wheelchair. And as much as we’ve seen of the Benry Others this season, it’s time for the viewers, even if not the Losties, to find out some who’s, where’s and why’s. AIWTKWLWIAW.
*I have no truck with numerology. There are only ten integers, for cryin’ out loud. Work them enough and you can “prove” anything.
Didn’t the “boar” get killed in the first part of season 2? Sorry 'bout that-couldn’t resist.
I gave up on “Lost” a couple or 3 of episodes into Season 2 during all those reruns (or were they flashbacks?)
But thank all of you above posters that have told me all about s/2 and s/3 so far. I will not even buy the dvd set of s/2, though I enjoyed my commercial-free set of S/1 dvds. “Lost” should get lost.
I was fading after the 2nd episode; now I’m done completely.
It’s funny how I can re-read that post from three episodes ago, and it still applies. You’d think I’d have learned after Alias. Fool me once…
Was it over when the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor? I’m still diggin’ it. And has anyone noticed that there isn’t any “homework” so far this season? Last season, you’d get on the Lost cites and learn all kidns of details you missed. Not so much this season at all.
BTW, as far as the other island goes-- it’s on the maps they have, so they probably know about it. It’s just not relavent since they don’t have any way of getting there. They had a sailboat for awhile, but Sayid screwed that up.
Besides, my “Lost” group uses it as a excuse to get together mid-week, share some food and good wine, and then watch some pretty cool TV. What’s not to like about that?
I unofficially gave up on Lost two weeks ago. I say “unofficially” because I taped last week’s episode to watch over the weekend. I never watched it. I guess I officially gave up on the series when I decided not to record last night’s episode and watched Mythbusters instead.
Last night’s episode was the first that I didn’t feel compelled to watch it in real time or on tape within 24 hours of airing. I just read the TWOP blurb and don’t feel like I really missed much. I have faith in the show, and still enjoy a number of characters, but this season so far has been All Hat and No Cattle. They said that something monumentally huge was supposed to happen by Ep.6 (before the winter break) and by gum, it better, because the pace right now is glacial when it seems to me that it’s a series that can no longer afford to abuse our patience.
I tried to tell my roommate this when she was all into the “homework” stuff with the Hanso Foundation, but she kept on looking. I tried to explain that the game SOCOM III came out last October and within a couple of days, loser kids figured out such stupid things as “go into the corner of this map, hit reload twice, jump, and fire your weapon and you can fly!” If people could figure that out in only a few days, then how could no one find anything of any use in weeks on that Hanso site? Because there was nothing TO find. It was just a way to keep you guessing so that you wouldn’t forget about the show.
I stopped watching early in season two when I got that sinking X-Files feeling that they were just making it up as they went along. Every question answered brings up three new questions - not a good sign. They depend on you forgetting what all the questions are after a while and then they never answer them. Eventually they have to end the show, so they throw together a slapdash explanation that kinda makes sense and you’re left feeling like you’ve been taken advantage of.
Yeah, I’m pretty much done with Lost at this point. I’ve decided to give it to the break because I’m an idiot and believe that a miracle is possible, but I’m not such a big idiot as to expect it.
The really sad part of this to me is that Lost had potential. A lot of potential. Heaping gobs of potential and the show’s producers have bled it all away. Season three lacks a hook, dynamic characters, or even twisted plotting. Season 1 had it. Season 2 had it for the majority but I felt that the “Henry”/Ben episodes were just padding the season out.
Lost has become the Twin Peaks of twenty-first century…
I was really jazzed on the first season, grew impatient during the second season, and now, I watch DVDs on Wednesday nights. As Mr. Colbert would say, “Lost, you are dead to me!”
I went to check out the TWoP boards for spoilers, and noticed their “bitterness” thread is 524 pages long. Crazy.
Lost is in its death throes for me. Not quite dead yet but close. I think the clincher for me will be if they reveal that the Other’s island is NOT concealed by some hi-tech cloaking device but that the Losties are just complete and utter morons for not noticing a *whole other island less than a mile away from them. *.
At this point, I think it would almost be easier for the writers to cut their losses and just start over, have one of the characters wake up on the island a couple of days after the crash and say, “Guys, you won’t believe the weird dream I just had! There was a 20 foot tall invisible monster, polar bears, horses, random crazy French women running through the woods and a whole bunch of really stupid people we called the Others. Oh, and there’s a whole other island just over there about a mile away. Crazy, huh? Hey, let’s go finish that SOS sign and signal fire. Wonder if Sayid has got that radio rigged up yet?” Sure it would be stupid but not much stupider than the way the show’s going now.
I’ll probably keep watching if for nothing else than to find out what the TCM really is and also how Locke ended up in that damn wheelchair.
As a woman once purportedly told Bertrand Russell, this show is nothing but Macguffins all the way down. 
LOST was over for me after about the 4th episode.
You know, with how passioniate everyone is about not watching the show it almost seems like you are trying to convince “others” to not watch the show. Now… who would gain the most by having people not watch this show? Perhaps the Hanso Found
Heh. I see that the Hanso Foundation rules the SDMB Hamsters too.
They seriously need to have Henry Winkler show up and jump over a beached seal in order to prove that they haven’t yet jumped the shark. Either that, or come across a wreck of a small tour boat, and then find the ruins of a few bamboo shelters, a suitcase full of money, a red shirt, and a stupid-looking floppy fishing hat. Then, in the closing scene, they find a life preserver with “S.S. Botony Bay” stenciled on it, and Ricardo Montalban brandishing a worm in forcepts. Then he wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette and tells her the dream he had about this island where fantasies come true.
Here here! American t.v. producers want a hit formula that they can keep milking indefinitely until it shrivels up and dies a pathetic death. Like Pushkin, I caught onto this about a thrid of the way in to the first series (which I watched on DVD last Christmas shutdown). The only redeeming quality–aside from Evangeline Lilly, who I would happily watch weaving baskets–was the character (Arndt?) in the last episode of the first series who kept complaining about being a “Red Shirt” and then blew up just to demonstrate the point that they dynamite was dangerously unstable. They needed more self-aware gags like that.
Stranger