How Lost lost me

8 Comments

1. Rachel V says:

   April 18, 2008 at 2:22 PM

   Hey Otter,
   We gave up, too. But then we came back. Some friends convinced us that the slump ends and the characters and plot truly do get better. I would encourage you to stick with it. We watch on Netflix. Here is an interesting post I found today (it contains a ton of spoilers if you haven’t watched the current season). I do think there is more than meets the eye and plenty of fun for analysis and entertainment:
   http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=2454
2. Jeff C says:

   April 18, 2008 at 2:27 PM

   John,
   It isnt a scf-fi series, but if you are looking for an excellent tv series to check out on dvd…get the first season of Friday Night Lights and be prepared to lose your entire weekend watching it.
3. Bill Reichart says:

   April 18, 2008 at 3:31 PM

   Say it ain’t so!!! I love LOST. It has gotten better. You got to stick with it!!!
   But if you are determined not to, then certainly I would recommend Battlestar Galactica as well – very clever and stylish.
4. John says:

   April 20, 2008 at 6:55 PM

   Still not quite convinced….
5. JP says:

   April 20, 2008 at 8:52 PM

   John,
   I can certainly understand why, after season 2, you would think LOST is/was a show going nowhere. And even for the first 6 episodes of season 3 the feeling persists. Then something funny happened.
   ABC and the producers of LOST actually agreed that the show had to have an endpoint so that the fans could start getting answers to the questions that were raised. And so now, with a definite end in sight (2010, the year we make contact), the show has started illuminating more of the mysteries. They haven’t out and out stated what is going on, but we are getting a lot more clues and intimations. We’re also getting a lot more really good character development to boot.
   If you can, I’d watch season 3 and try to catch up on season 4. It’s been quite the ride lately.
   The exact opposite of what’s been happening on Galactica…
6. Robert says:

   April 21, 2008 at 1:12 AM

   I think after the second season, the initial concept loses its novelty, but with the third season the creators were able to take the show in a different direction while still maintaining its mysticism and what they’re doing with Season Four is some of their most creative work yet. Personally, I think it’s the best show on television, but that’s just me So, I encourage you and your wife to at least give Season Three a shot and if it’s still not doing it for you, then at least you tried…
7. John says:

   April 21, 2008 at 8:37 AM

   JP – that’s tjhe first logical reason so far. That fact is quite convincing. Now if I could just find the time…
8. Carole McDonnell says:

   April 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM

   I remember Twin Peaks from back in the day. I kept saying to my husband, “Twin Peaks was all style and no substance.” When Lost popped up, I enjoyed it at first but then I kept thinking…”uhm, it’s going the way of Twin Peaks. This thing has no center.”
   Sure, I was all set to believe that it was really a story about folks stuck inside a video game. I was set to believe in anything. But then I realized an open-ended television show based on a mystery…had to remain mysterious and confusing as long as possible. If it had a time-limit, like a telenovela or a mini-series, the creators might have committed to making a story with substance, a beginning, a middle, an end, a true speculative fiction world. But they seemed to get into the game of “let’s not let the viewers figure us out.” And after awhile they forgot that a story isn’t primarily about outwitting viewers and coming up with surprises…and they just got lost. -C