I’m liking this season just fine. The show isn’t as good as some HBO shows, but so fucking what? I don’t watch on the very, very, best TV. “Lost” is fun, and still different enough to hold my interest. Anyone who can put up with the nonsense in “24” should be able to deal with “Lost”.
I really don’t like the idea of the 10:00 slot, mainly because it may cause some problems for my "Lost’ group. Half the fun of watching is having the same group of people together every week, and I’m afraid a few will not be able to hand in there for the later time slot. And no way am I going to record it and wait to watch it the next day. Besides, “Survivor” starts the day after “Lost” begins again!
I think there is one reason behind the move. American Idol (another show I can’t stand but won’t go into an AI thread just to shit on it). If there is a train coming the best idea is to get out of the way.
OK, so then I stand by my earlier grumblecakes. And let’s face it: I’m going to be sleepy on Thursdays too, because if I wait to watch “Lost” when I get home from work on Thursdays, then it might cut into my “Survivor” time, and that is just Un. Ac. Ceptable! Gaaaaaaaaah! What is this “life” of which so many others speak?
I understand that. My preference, of course, would be for ABC to consider only my needs, and continue to broadcast the show regardless of what the ratings are. BTW, I’ve never watched even one minute of American Idol, and I intend to keep it that way. AFAIAC, “Survivor” is the only reality show worth watching.
I have an idea for a compromise. Every time some fangrrl types “Benry” Trunk gets to pop into the thread and say “this show sux, I’m never watching again!”
Sound fair?
I’m getting a little tired of the seemingly ever-growing fangrrl mafia spreading throughout CS who feel they can dictate how much you’re required to love a show in order to discuss it, while also dictating which cutsey-pie nicknames are acceptable and which are not, because they and their fellow fangrrl clique weren’t the ones who made it up.
I’m waffling on Lost. I loved the first season. Second season had some good and some bad, but was mostly fun and watchable. Third season so far has been bad. I’ll probably watch the rest of season three, unless it gets really bad.
After that, I dunno. What bodes poorly for this show is that the writers insist that it’s about the characters. Honestly, the characters are almost uniformly terrible. Locke was a great character in season one and some of season two. Sawyer is a one-trick badboy pony. Kate’s character is completely unbelievable. Charlie is a wanker. Claire … well, at least she’s pretty and has a hot accent. Anyway, if the show is about the characters and not the plot, then I’m watching for entirely the wrong reasons and will probably be disappointed.
That said, I promise not to crap in any Lost threads that I post in. I may criticize some particular things that bothered me, but I won’t go overboard. (If I do, call me on it.)
I kind of agree with BK. I do like the characters, but I’m getting bored with the flashbacks. With some exceptions, Locke episodes are always interesting, what they were is played out. Let’s focus on what they are and what they are becoming.
I think my big problem with season three is lack of momentum. The first two seasons started with a big bang that pushed us through the lesser episodes that followed. This one… Didn’t. The episodes we got were perfectly acceptable if they were episodes 3-9 instead of 1-6, but there was nothing juicy to get us through them. Instead, we got three of our heroes doing nothing but being impotently imprisoned and tormented. That’s fine, if it was the payoff of something more recent than last season’s finale, and the latest episode was great in making me want to return, but as it is, there’s no motion to the plot.
I agree this season’s first half seemed kinda slow compared to the previous ones, but I’ll keep watching until the Sleestak appear, and then I’m done. (On second thought, a few Sleestak might be good for this show.)
I know I legitimately gave up. It’s becoming preposterous. I didn’t watch the last four episodes and haven’t any interest in the next ones.
I loved it at first because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. It’s now unquestionably the case that Abrams et al. don’t know what’s going to happen next, so, like “The X-Files,” nothing will happen next. It’ll just keep circling down a rabbit hole fo whatever weird clues and coincidences the writers can think of on a short lead.
Lost doesn’t suck, but the stupid teaser ads do. I just saw one that gave away a huge freaking plot twist, and I can’t unsee it! Yeah, ok, it was something totally predictable, but still - I avoid spoiler sites because I want to be surprised just a little bit while watching the show, so having the network itself ruin things for me is just not fair.
So whats the term for people who are annoyed at threadshitting? If I go into this weeks thread about ER and say the show sucks and I stopped watching it last season I would be an asshole. What is the term for someone who posts just to sneer at the fans of a particular show?
[spoiler] Juliet betrays them, telling her people over the walkie-talkies to “bring them back. I don’t care if you have to shoot them”, referring to Kate and Sawyer. (approximate quote)
Not Earth-shattering and not unexpected, but I could have waited to see that in the episode, thanks.[/spoiler]
Then again, they tend to set up their ads with misleading dialogue and strange editing, so who knows.
I’m not saying that 24 is God’s gift to TV shows, but I think this is a poor comparison. One of the nearly-universal complaints among Lost fans is that nothing ever gets resolved. That could not be further from the case in 24, in which everything gets resolved, except that it turns out there’s another bad guy to chase down, or whatever. You pretty much NEVER, in 24, see something mysterious and odd, and just keep wondering and wondering what it was or what it means. (Exception: Jack whispering to Nina back in season 2 or 3.)
Both Lost and 24 have baffling things happen which require suspension of disbelief, but the similarity ends there.
We’ll be back where we were at the start of Season Three! Yay!
MY “Lost” complaint is that the characters on this ‘character-driven’ show are a bunch of idiots who would stand a pretty decent chance of dying by tripping, landing head-first in a bucket of water, and drowning because they didn’t have the sense to pull their heads out of the bucket.
BTW, I’ve never watched even one minute of American Idol, and I intend to keep it that way. AFAIAC, “Survivor” is the only reality show worth watching.