you haven’t missed much, every episodes are a fucking tease. The mysteries turnes up to be almost nothing
let’s take that cave in the ground at the end of season one, in season two they finally came down there and found a lots of books and records - then they left and i never saw anything about that hole in the ground again
it’s too far goone for me
Watch out, folks! He’s got a posse!
Yup, that pretty much sums up season two.
You obviously haven’t watched this show at all, and are just interested in an argument. The second season has been NOTHING BUT revelations in or about the hatch.
Look, it’s fine if you don’t like the show, and I don’t care if you aren’t interested in wathcing it, but arguing about something, even a TV show which is a subjective experience, that you don’t know about just makes you look foolish and annoys the rest of us.
You obviously have not watched this show in over ten months. Why don’t you post about something that interests you?
That’s something I didn’t notice. I’ll have to watch that again.
I’m with Minautorus on this one. I really liked the premise of the show and watched the entire first season with growing disbelief as the plot holes grew bigger and it became obvious the writers were just making shit up as they went along. It didn’t help that most of said shit is generic crap that neither arouses my interest nor challenges my brain in the slightest.
Which is fine for many people. That’s why Smallville and the O.C are popular. Some people want to watch a fantasy world as opposed to something like “The Wire” and have no problem suspending their disbelief for as long as it takes. I think some of us just have lower tolerance for that. That’s why I stopped liking 24 halfway through the second season yet the show is still a hit and is sure to continue airing for years to come.
For the record, I’d like to indicate that I do not believe there is a strong correlation between being an idiot and liking Lost. One of my friends who is smarter than me likes the show. So no need for anyone to get defensive about it. All I’m saying is that, in my opinion, you’re more likely to enjoy lost if you are an idiot.
I enjoy “Lost.” I watch it every week, and I look forward to reading the online discussions. It really puzzles me that people who don’t like this show are often so pissed off at those of us who do like it. Personally, I don’t care for “American Idol,” but I don’t go on and on about how awful I think it is. Different strokes for different folks, OK?
“You don’t have to be an idiot to have different tastes than me, but it helps.”
Gee, thanks. How very magnanimous of you. :rolleyes:
I’m sure not *everbody *who likes your favorite shows are retarded either.
You don’t think every cop show ever requires significant suspension of disbelief? Wow.
Personally, I can’t stand someone who rants about something they just can’t stand. It was so horrible they only watched ~30 episodes. Anyone who has watched the fifteen after that is a total lam3r.
-Joe
Yeah, and while we’re at it – screw those stupid bastards over at Law and Order! It’s obvious they didn’t have all the episodes of the entire series written and polished in advance of when they started shooting, so yeah what a bunch of frauds! How could anybody possibly like it?! Rabble rabble rabble!
I like “Lost”. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.
I think Minotaurus was referring to how they never went back to anything about the initial OPENING into the hatch that Locke, Jack, and Kate climbed down. The original location that Locke was excavating.
And if that is indeed what he was complaining about, there’s a simple explanation. There was no need to go back to that vertical shaft without a complete ladder, because it was shortly found out that there was another entrance to the hatch, which was easier to get into. If you had a choice between walking in a door, and climbing down a rope for entrance, what would you typically pick?
Whichever one let me complain about Lost sucking the most, of course.
Durrr.
-Joe
Nice 
Yeah, chances are apparently better than 50/50 that you’re an idiot if you watched those last 15. Along these lines of reasoning, I’m sure that enjoyment of something like Fear Factor (pretty people eating bugs) must be the sign of an intellectual powerhouse.
No, competing on Fear Factor is the sign of an intellectual powerhouse.
Now, now. I didn’t mean it like that at all! And It certainly was not my intention to imply that people who like lost are probably idiots. As I said, that friend of mine likes it.
The show is riddled with plot holes, story inconsistencies, generic and shallow plots, etc. From dinosaurs to polar bears to “bad luck numbers” to conspiracy theories ad infinitum. Not to mention that every passenger seems to have a fascinating backstory to him/her.
I could go on. What I’m saying here is that you can’t deny that idiots are less likely to be irritated by the show’s shortcomings.
You have to understand i didn’t just dismiss the show after one or two episodes. I watched the entire 1st season. It’s just that every time I watched lost, my intelligence got insulted some more. In the end, I was upset with the show’s writers and disheartened by its popularity. Maybe some of that shines through my previous post.
Wait, so does every character seem to ‘have a fascinating backstory’ or are they ‘generic and shallow plots’?
Anyways, it’s quite clear all our heroes are connected somehow…almost like it was planned!
I can understand your beef, though. All the characters should have been workers at toll booths across the world. No connection to each other, just a big coincidence.
-Joe
Dinosaurs? When did we get dinosaurs?
Season 2 has been very, shall we say…inconsistent when compared to the first season. There have been a couple of episodes where I have, at the end of the 42 minutes, said aloud to myself ‘What the fuck? Nothing actually happened’. Other episodes have been frustrating in that they raise even more questions instead of attempting to solve at least some of the plethora of mysteries raised thus far.
I’m not saying that the first season gave many answers, but there was at least some sort of progression. The Losties were trying to work out what the hell is going on and get off the island. They had a purpose. Things were moving forward.
Now, most of what we seem to get, if not some new ‘mystery’ table scrap thrown to us by the writer, is soap opera bickering and gossip. Also, many of the good season 1 characters have changed for the worse. Jack is more a whiny loser than ever before. Sawyer, one of the most entertaining and complex characters, gets played like a village idiot by Ana Lucia and doesn’t notice his gun is not down the back of his pants anymore until 3 hours later (wait, isn’t he supposed to be some uber con man?). Sayid is hardly given any decent screen time anymore. Locke, my favourite character, took a hit with that stupid ‘Fake Henry made me smash up the cornflakes bowl’ subplot.
Then there’s the fact that none of the characters tell eachother anything about their discoveries until it is convenient or the backlash on the official message boards demands it. And those inside jokes, the nods to the Internet crowd that we’ve seen a few times this season, are not cool, they’re smug and break immersion.
e.g.
Ana Lucia: Everybody hates me (wink wink camera)
Fake Henry: Why does nobody on this island tell eachother anything? (wink wink camera)
Very clever. Now, why don’t you writers stop reading the message boards on your iMacs, sit down, and get your shit together, hmm?
As to all you ‘Why don’t you just stop watching it?’ folks I’ll say to you: I don’t hate the show. I used to love it. Now I just really like it. I want the finale to put me on the upbounce back to love again.
Besides, I rode that coaster with the numbers and the hatch and the monster back in the first season and I need some closure. Pandora’s box is open. I will be there 'til the bitter end. I’m the guy that never stops or walks out of a movie, however bad it begins or becomes. Old wise man say, ‘Cake can only be tasted when baked’. I am just concerned that this steam train is belting down the tracks but has nobody driving, and this appears to be a growing sentiment.
Overrated. A lot. Pretty average quality, with ups and downs.
But for me that just means I don’t watch it anymore and generally don’t post about it. Only posting here so you get a little more of a cross-section 