I've stuck with watching LOST since episode 1, way back in 2005. It's the one program on TV that I sit down to watch every week. Season 1 was excellent, really spooky shit, but even I have to admit that last episode was a real kick in the hole to loyal viewership. I personally know people who loved every episode of season 1 but never watched LOST again after that season cliff-hanger finale.
A lot of the time with LOST it's been painful to watch. Some episodes added nothing to the story. I guess the writers might have hoped people would entertain themselves with their own ideas and theories about what the Island is. Me, I never gave a fuck. I never wondered if it was hell, or a parallel dimension, a game show, toxic waste land, Craggy Island... I just watched it. I still want to know what the hatch from season 1 is all about. Oh I know they "built a story around it" in season 2 but I mean, the original mystery of the hatch has never been explained, and the more I watch of the final season, the more I realise nothing will be explained. This is the modern day Twin Peaks, but at least Twin Peaks never promised to make sense.
I watched another episode finish tonight, and I feel so empty. This must be what long term heroin addiction feels like. Oh well, Evangeline Lilly's bewbz.So when did LOST turn shit:
1) It was always shit, get over it.
2) The end of season 1 when they left you hanging.
3) The fact that there was a season 2.
4) Religion.
5) When the storyline left the island.
6) Time travel.
8) John Locke not being John Locke.
7) The fact that it's one big long dragged out ever-twisting convoluted story line with no real rhyme nor reason; which you are watching now simply out of brut habit even though you know nothing will ever be explained by the final episode.
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It dragged a bit last year but I've watched about 3 episodes of the current series and enjoying it.
I'm still catching up though, that online gaming on the Xbox really drags me away from RTE and Desperate Housewifes, *cough* I mean Lost.
Ha ha Desperate Donncha. Don't worry, your secret is safe with me, Batman!
I think the biggest problem I have with this season is that it's explaining the mysteries of the original premis of the series by delving off into a further tangent of storyline and mystery, rather than actually explaining specifically why everything happened in the previous episodes.
They promised in dept explanations to everything, and I for one want to know why the parrot in an episode of season two seemed to say Hurley's name, or at least why it was important. I just can't see that happening with the way they're going.
Ah, maybe I'm just impatient. Maybe I should just stop watching for a while and then to a big catch up nearer the end. If they pull a Soprano's ending though, I might just very well kill JJ Abrams! :)
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