Lost - Is It Worth It?
Discussion
It has some good characters and some decent episodes, but it becomes clearer and clearer that they hadn't mapped out an overarching story, and it kind of descends into being "and then, and then, and then" improv in terms of structure.
Watch it until you get fed up of it and then stop, and you're not missing anything earth shattering to not "finish" it, because the show's creators didn't.
Watch it until you get fed up of it and then stop, and you're not missing anything earth shattering to not "finish" it, because the show's creators didn't.
I can't believe it's 20-odd years old.
I loved it when it first came out. The end of S1 was incredible. And this was before you could binge and had to wait for the next season!
I think up to S5 is great. Then the writers strike in 2008(?) hit and it got a bit messed up. Then it lost(!) it's way.
As everyone says, the finale was stupid. And exactly what the producer said at the beginning would not happen.
I loved it when it first came out. The end of S1 was incredible. And this was before you could binge and had to wait for the next season!
I think up to S5 is great. Then the writers strike in 2008(?) hit and it got a bit messed up. Then it lost(!) it's way.
As everyone says, the finale was stupid. And exactly what the producer said at the beginning would not happen.
I'm not sure it can be watched now in the same way as in 2004-10. That show robbed me of years of life. Alongside the show they ran this very early social media campaign of fake websites and micro-episodes; the whole Dharma Initiative thing, Polar Bars, Stations, the Others, VW Buses, 6-toed statues, black v white. Those were the days of drip feeding one episode a week, and the side episodes were to build audience anticipation, and it worked. But it all fell apart in the final season, and clearly the writers got sick of the studio milking the original concept, which was supposed to be self-contained episodes that you could dip in and out of. There was some good acting in it.
Binge watching them now? Not sure it would be the same. For a while, it was very clever TV.
Binge watching them now? Not sure it would be the same. For a while, it was very clever TV.
The first series was really good, to the point where if it had been one series I think it would have been considered one the greats. Each episode was really well crafted and it was fantastic to wonder about what it was all about.
As it was, it became a crucial milestone in TV history for the wrong reasons. They broke the unwritten trust between programme maker and the viewer for a whole generation. It felt like the first time TV changed from being people trying to tell a cool story, to people trying to figure out how they could string viewers along along for as long as they could.
I bailed out at the start of series three and I felt cheated, but they absolutely betrayed everyone who stuck with them to the end.
As it was, it became a crucial milestone in TV history for the wrong reasons. They broke the unwritten trust between programme maker and the viewer for a whole generation. It felt like the first time TV changed from being people trying to tell a cool story, to people trying to figure out how they could string viewers along along for as long as they could.
I bailed out at the start of series three and I felt cheated, but they absolutely betrayed everyone who stuck with them to the end.
Funnily enough I've just finished binge watching it over the course of the last few month. Yes it's absolutely worth it, the show makes much more sense binging it than waiting for weekly episodes and months between each series. And the ending which I didn't really get and thought 'meh' when I was younger, had me sobbing like an idiot because I understood it this time round. Being older in life and experiencing loss and grief helps immensely with understanding the ending.
Radec said:
Never finished it but it did grip me the first few series.
I think the same thing happened with Heroes.
Was there some sort of writers strike that happened at the time which meant there was a big break for these series and when they restarted they ended up being terrible?
2007/2008 - most series ended up being delayed or shortened. Lost went from 25, 24 and 23 episodes in the first 3 seasons respectively to just 14 episodes in the fourth. It also premiered 3 months lateI think the same thing happened with Heroes.
Was there some sort of writers strike that happened at the time which meant there was a big break for these series and when they restarted they ended up being terrible?
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