LOST: the promising tv-series that i thought was a mini-series
i got tired after season 1 and only saw the 3-4 first episodes in seasons 2
this series irritated me more and more and i find it pathetic that so many are fascinated by this fraud :mad:
the producers are just speculating how to keep the viewers hungry and curious and how to present yet another silly mystery to them
I can’t stand this tv-series :mad: :mad:
how about you?
I love it. The characters and plot is still as strong as ever. I admit that it’s dipped a fair bit in quality in teh first season, but it’s still strong appointment television.
The only thing I don’t understand is why people feel compelled to waste time talking about things they don’t enjoy.
By the way, how could a TV show be a “fraud”? As long as its actually, you know, a show, as opposed to a test pattern interrupted by commercials or something, it seems that it’s delivering exactly as adverstised.
Generally speaking, I only use that many angry smilies when talking about serial killers and pedophiles. I just can’t get that worked up about forms of entertaimnent that other people like and I don’t.
I like “Lost” a lot. Consider me pathetic if you must.
Then don’t watch it.
There, that was easy. Now, go do some laundry.
You don’t need the hyphen between tv and series.
OP reminds me of that Dane Cook quote:
As for LOST, I like it. It’s always got the soap opera dangling carrot which, once you accept, you can sit back and enjoy the ride. LOST is a shaggy dog tale with polar bears, and pirates, and smoky clouds, and backstories, and human drama. The ever-shifting focus only makes me want the story to get back on target and reveal the mysteries behind the curtains, but I’m sure it’s not going to be ever as good as this coaster’s hills.
I hate Lost.
Specifically, what I hate about it is that the second season won’t be available on DVD until October.
Seriously, I’m (obviously) crazy about this series. The characters are fascinating, the mystery is engaging, and the continuing storylines are full of suspense.
October?!? 
The show has a lot of unexplained things, plot holes, and does still seem a bit like they’re making it up as they go along.
But there’s nothing else like it on TV, and I mean that in a good way.
I also really enjoy “Lost”. It will inevitably go downhill in quality - I think all open ended TV series do. But in the meantime I’m enjoying the clever writing, origninal (for TV) situations, interesting characters and and actors. I guess I like my TV escapist, but well done, and “Lost” fits the bill.
I used to like Lost a lot but I’ve lost confidence that the writers really know where they’re headed and aren’t just making it up as they go along.
Well, no wonder you’re irritated by it. Lost is the kind of show where it’s very difficult to only see a couple episodes and then be ableto fully enjoy watching it.
Sure, you could get the general gist of what’s going on, but Lost heavily depends on backstory created in flashbacks, and smaller plot points that aren’t followed up on until many episodes later. I don’t have a TV right now, so I’m having my brother record the episodes for me. I got behind the last few weeks, so even though I could have watched the last episode live, I waited until I had time to catch up on the last few weeks first.
off course they don’t
this isn’t a mini-series but a soap opera at it’s worst
they don’t know where they are going, they are just speculating how to squeeze it to it’s maximum
What do I think of Lost?
I think this says it all:
I’ve encouraged my best friend to check it out from the beginning, but he never looked into it because based on its promotion he figured it was just another “pretty people on the beach” series.
Finally, a month or so ago, an offhanded comparison to The Prisoner managed to intrigue him enough that he decided he wanted to see it – but didn’t want to jump in in the middle. So I mailed him out every episode that had been broadcast so far (up to Two for the Road.)
Three days after he received the discs, I talked to him about Lost again, and he said (verbatim) “For me, the show is all about Locke, the hatch, and Mr. Eko.” Three days! You know the series has hooks.
It was fun to hash out all the subtle little stuff with him, too: “Did you notice such-and-such?” “Go back and look at hoo-de-hah frame-by-frame.” And, of course, the show being what it is, he noticed plenty of stuff that went past me. The pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie is quoted verbatim in S.O.S. fer instance… That went past me…
I love it. A baroque tapestry woven out of elements as disparate as 17th century political philosophy, esoteric buddhism, the poppiest of pop-culture, capital-L Literature, etc… somehow made perfectly compatible with the network television staple of pretty people and their relationship dramas. It can be enjoyed as light fluff or as something to be obsessively analysed like Joyce’s Ulysses. Or both.
Attacking a show that is the practical definition of a critical and popular success seems as quixotic as, say, advancing a comically and anachronistically chauvinistic argument that women are more suited to menial work than men are.
those flashbacks was about the worst in the series and I i’m not the only one that thinks that
I find it pathetic that other’s taste in TV shows causes you such ire. I can’t stand daytime TV or any faux-reality show so much that I would rather watch a test pattern. People who enjoy such shows aren’t, however, pathetic. They just have different tastes than me.
My wife started watching during the first season. I figured I’d join. We were watching one episode and I asked if they were going to resolve the minor mystery being set up or are they just going to tease us.
She said “Tease us, of course.”
I haven’t watched since.
I’m actually pretty sure they know where they’re headed. That is, the writers already know the secrets behind the Dharma Project, the smoke monster, the island, etc.
What they don’t know is how to get there without ending the show. So it’s the stuff in between, the character work mostly, that they’re making up as they go along.
Which is how every show ever has been produced so I don’t really see the problem here.