Lost is really one of those shows you have to watch in order, for start to finish to really appreciate. There were a few episodes I’ve watched and just thought how bizarre everything would seem if it was the first episode I’d seen.
Unfortunately, if you’ve seen a few episodes here and there from later in the series, you’ll already know a lot of what’s going to happen before it does, so it still probably wouldn’t be as enjoyable.
Here’s the thing. LOST is flippin’ awesome, but it’s not something that appeals to everyone. If you thought Locke walking strained belief, it is not a show for you, because that’s nothing compared to what comes later. If you’re really curious, a year from now it’ll all be over and you can just read Lostpedia.
–Cliffy
Don’t bother. It is one of those, “You had to be there” type events. After the fact it all seems pretty silly.
Well, I dunno. I do think seeing bits of it out of order screwed things up a little, but not so much I can’t enjoy it. Hurley’s triumphant save of Jin, Sayid and Bernard was even cooler the second time around, since I actually knew what was happening and who the characters were. Of course I knew it was going to happen, so I had no nail-biting moments in that episode. But I figure that’s about the same as the “flashforwards” in Season 4, since I (and everyone else) had seen Jack in the future, you’re not worried about his appendicitis.
The only thing that sucked was having seen the Season 3 finale first. As much as I liked Charlie, I couldn’t invest too much in him since I knew what was going to happen.
So I’ve watched Season 4 in its entirety, and I guess the island has decided my fate. As much as I’ve resisted, I want to know WTF happens.
Isn’t that like watching a show about vampires and scoffing at the unlikelihood of someone turning into a bat?
Or is it that you just generally don’t like shows with supernatural elements, and that is when you realized that that’s what you were getting into?
Although as believability goes, one of things that did bother me was that everyone seemed to automatically assume the island was uninhabited, or for that matter that they were on an island at all.
The only acting that bothers me are the actors who play Jack and Juliette (I don’t know their names, so I’ll refer to them by their characters’ names). Between them they would average out to an okay actor, since Jack horribly overacts (he’s constantly bulging his eyes and puffing up his cheeks), and Juliette delivers every line regardless of it’s significance with the same sleepy look and indifferent voice.
I actually think John’s (once again I’m using the character’s name) acting isn’t bad. When the scene calls for emotion, he delivers. The John character always comes off as though he knows exactly what’s going on and why, sometimes he does (or believes he does), other times he just want those around him to think he does. So it make sense that he doesn’t seem to get too excited or emotional. It’s not that the actor is wooden, the character is.
On another topic, I actually didn’t really like the fifth season.
First there was the killing off all the red shirts in a couple of episodes. Then they used the three year gap to completely change the motives and arguably the entire personalities of several main characters.
And at times they seemed to be acting completely out of character, and often just irrationally just for the purpose of moving the plot in the direction the writers wanted.
One particularly bad (or…um…good?) example was the episode where they were trying to save little Ben. Yes, I know he was just a kid, and not really yet responsible for what he was going to do, but they were acting like it was the end of the world if he were to die. They went well beyond reasonable actions to save him, even after Richard pretty much told them “This is what going to turn him into the Ben you know”.
But what bugged me the most was that at first I thought I was finally watching something that took a logical and realistic approach to time travel, but by the end of the season, even the resident temporal physicist was delivering lines like “People and free will are the variables in the equations”.
Also, I didn’t like what they did with Sawyer. From the start his whole schtick was that he was only concerned about himself and his own well being. And, yes, most of that was an act, but not only did he completely drop the act, he went way in the other direction. By the fourth season he became oddly overprotective of any main character he happened to be near.
Lost was a mess that began in the first episode and was never tidied up. Every time some part of the mess is cleaned, they spill another box of rubbish all over the floor. The mess is piled so high now that cleaners can’t even get to it, and it appears like the only way to clean it up will be to burn the whole house down and let the weeds have it.
If you can’t tell, I think the show is awful.
Who knows though, he could still be wrong, so far they have yet to affect anything that hasn’t already been affected. Hell, even he dies doing what he thought what be changing the past, and we obviously know that his mother knows what is going to happen to him all along. So they’re still taking the same approach as before, just Faraday thought he could change things (and apparently couldn’t)
Lost has suffered from two major repeated flaws over its run:
(1) never answering questions and moving the plot forward glacially slowly
(2) the characters acting like idiots, particularly in that they NEVER just sit down and talk to each other and compare notes and discuss the situation they’re in.
(1) has gotten MUCh better in season 4 and 5. It peaked during the first half of season 3.
(2) is still there and still annoying, but I’ve gotten used to it.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time pissed off at dumb things about the show, but the good parts are good enough that I’ve overall enjoyed it quite a bit.
I’ve been re-watching Lost and am now in the middle of season 2. There are a lot of questions raised that have since been answered. If you go to Lostpedia, for each episode they have a section called “unanswered questions”. So far, most of the questions left are the BIG ones. ‘What is the monster’ type questions that I wouldn’t expect to be answered until towards the end. I remember there were many more questions out there that have now been removed as they’ve been answered.
Just wanted to second this. Everyone I know who’s into Lost, myself included, was hooked when they got to this specific episode. If you had the opposite reaction, it’s definitely not the show for you.
Only if you can guarantee to hit it between the eyes.
I quit watching this show about halfway through the first season.
And here’s how it’s going to end.
No, no, no.
:rolleyes:
I know, I assume they are going to stick to there current approach. I was just annoy to see the previously logic man of science, Faraday, start spouting “people are the variables” lines. From the beginning, I figured the bomb was what actually caused the incident, I was relieved to hear a character finally say it.
That’s actually been partially answered.
That’s another thing that bugs me. Especially when a characters says “that’s not important right now”, when it clearly is. And characters keep things to themselves, for no, or very flimsy reasons. The worst was when they didn’t tell anyone about the island after being rescued to “protect those still there”, when the person who they were supposed be protecting them from obviously already knew about the island. He sent a freighter there
I should clarify my previous statement. It wasn’t that episode, in fact I hadn’t seen any of season 1 until after I’d already seen parts of season 3 (unwillingly, and accidentally, like when my sister and bil and I were having a few beers and they decided to watch the season 3 finale.
My friend had lent me the season 1 boxset while telling me it was the coolest show ever, and tried to explain how the island was this mysterious place where crazy things happened. She used Locke as an example.
I said, “Wait, so there’s a guy in a wheelchair, but when he crashes on the island his legs work? No effing way, totally not watching that.”
That’s why her boxset sat at my house for a few months unwatched. Later on, when I actually saw the Walkabout episode, I was mildly invested in the show. This was when my roommates had borrowed the very same boxset from my friend, and I would occasionally join them in their room when they were cracking out on Lost.
I didn’t actually sit down and try to watch all the episodes until they were airing season 4. I didn’t even see the very first episode until after I’d seen the season 3 finale twice.
Yeah, so it’s a little strange watching it that way.
I think my initial disapproval was the fact that when I’d first heard of the show, I figured it was going to be a standard plane-crashes-on-deserted-island-and-survivors-try-to-get-rescued show. But then hearing the bit about Locke, without understanding that this was a sc-fi type show, just completely threw me off. So having caught some of the episodes with my friends explaining bits of it here and there, I realized what the show was actually about and got into it.
The only reason I stopped watching the last time was because I was pissed that my asshole ex-boyfriend was watching it without me and I was missing episodes regularly. Since he refused to wait for me, my choices were either 1) catch an episode a few episodes ahead, then wait for him to go to sleep to go back and watch the episodes that I’d missed or 2) completely write off the whole show.