Lost...Will there ever be another?

[Mike F]

Originally Posted by OilKiller

Wha? Like what? The wife and I watch a lot of TV and shows like Lost? Not sure I've seen them.

Maybe you should start by trying to define what you mean by "a show like Lost".

[FlamesAddiction]

I watched Lost, but mostly because I just wanted to see what was going to happen and not because I liked the show that much... if that makes sense.

I thought their cliffhangers were really good, but then the explanations always seemed to disappoint. Then the show ended exactly like how many people thought that it would after the 1st season even though the creators kept denying that angle.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

Another prime example as why we need a UN THANKS featute.

Breaking Bad is terrible, such a snorefest of a show. i tried to give season 1 a go but only got a few episodes in before i had to give up, it moved at the pace of a ######ed turtle

[BigBrodieFan]

I recently watched the whole series of LOST on Netflix. I thought it was very well done, but the 'parallel world' was pretty hard to follow, and I wish the ending had been more concrete. I really enjoyed it though. I'd rate it up with my top ten, which include Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome, WEEDS, Boardwalk Empire and not a 'guy' show but 'Army Wives' is an excellent portrayal of the real lives of military and their spouses. Definitely a chick series though.

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Breaking Bad is terrible, such a snorefest of a show. i tried to give season 1 a go but only got a few episodes in before i had to give up, it moved at the pace of a ######ed turtle

Breaking Bad does pick up eventually, but it's a matter of sticking with it. It's like Sons of Anarchy for me. My friends kept urging me to watch it. Took me a good 6 months to finish the first season because I just didn't like it. It ended on a high note and season 2 is really good so far.

If you've got some free time, and nothing else to do; I recommend grinding through the first season. It might be worth it.

[fredr123]

Lost lost me (ha!) early in the first season with their smoke monsters and dinosaurs and what have you. The paralyzed dude walking around after the crash ws a bit too much. I didn't know going in that the show would develop into a giant mind###### with a bunch of weird crap going on intended to befuddle the audience. I was expecting a more realistic show about survivors on a deserted island.

That's what really made the show unique. I don't know of any other program that had the level of discussion and analysis as Lost. People would debate for hours and come up with all sorts of far out theories about what things in last night's episode really meant.

I listened to a podcast with someone once, maybe Alan Sepinwall, who noted that Lost was a unique show for a network today because it basically started early on with the biggest possible audience it could ever get and then alienated viewers week by week. If you didn't follow the show right from the start, you were not going to get the same experience as those that did. There was a reward for long term viewership and it was not an easy show to pick up midway through a season. Serials are much less popular today than they once were.

I think there's some truth to all that but I bet the ratings and viewership numbers do not support that theory. Today, it's much easier to go online or get a hold of a season on DVD to catch up on episodes you may have missed. DVRs are becoming ubiquitous and have made it a lot easier to keep on top of your stories.

[sa226]

I haven't watched some of the other shows but as far as I am concerned, the first two seasons of Lost was the best television i have ever seen. That loyalty kept me around through the crap seasons, and sticking around paid off for the last season.

My loyalty and love for the show may have clouded my judgment on what I thought was a pretty good but partly cop out ending.

[Komskies]

How did the fat guy stay so fat?

[Bobblehead]

I gave up on Lost around S4.

It seemed like since it was popular and they wanted to make it last, they kept throwing more crap in and had a hard time reconciling all the new stuff with the old. And then I found I just didn't care anymore. The curiosity to find out how certain elements were going to fit together was overwhelmed buy the sheer annoyance at all the new elements that seemed to be continually added.

I think a show like this would have worked better if they knew from the outset exactly how long it would take to wrap up the story and then paced the storytelling.

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by Komskies

How did the fat guy stay so fat?

That was addressed at first by his food hoarding by the food from darma that apparently fell from the sky, but then later I think the point was that he was dead the whole time and therefore didn't change. I am not sure of the 'real' theory,' but it did seem to be a big question on the show, a question asked by several of the characters.

[OilKiller]

Originally Posted by Mike F

Maybe you should start by trying to define what you mean by "a show like Lost".

Well, if you've ever watched the show, I believe it would be pretty self-explanatory.

To answer another, I never said I wanted Lost back. Just that I missed it and really missed having a show "like" it to watch.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Komskies

How did the fat guy stay so fat?

you don't think that all of the disappearing cast aways all moved on do you?

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

That was addressed at first by his food hoarding by the food from darma that apparently fell from the sky, but then later I think the point was that he was dead the whole time and therefore didn't change. I am not sure of the 'real' theory,' but it did seem to be a big question on the show, a question asked by several of the characters.

Cool. Is darma the Lost version of God?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

That was addressed at first by his food hoarding by the food from darma that apparently fell from the sky, but then later I think the point was that he was dead the whole time and therefore didn't change. I am not sure of the 'real' theory,' but it did seem to be a big question on the show, a question asked by several of the characters.

You see that was top 10 in my let downs for the series. When they interviewed the writers, the writers stated that the castaways weren't dead and the Island wasn't purgatory, and they said that multiple times.

Then they completely dropped things like Walt and the comic book powers and other things.

Then I was intrigued by the idea of the two brothers in the last season as the battle between good and evil, and that was in effect pretty lame, and then they killed the man in black in about 10 seconds of stupidity.

The series was a let down because it was too ambitious and the Writers continually wrote themselves into a corner.

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Cool. Is darma the Lost version of God?

I don't think so- I guess it would be one interpretation though.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Cool. Is darma the Lost version of God?

Yes, and Greg is the devil.

[You Need a Thneed]

In all seriousness, I don't think I've watched a minute of LOST in my lifetime.

In that sense, there will certainly be another lost - i.e. a show that I will not watch a minute of.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You see that was top 10 in my let downs for the series. When they interviewed the writers, the writers stated that the castaways weren't dead and the Island wasn't purgatory, and they said that multiple times.

Then they completely dropped things like Walt and the comic book powers and other things.

Then I was intrigued by the idea of the two brothers in the last season as the battle between good and evil, and that was in effect pretty lame, and then they killed the man in black in about 10 seconds of stupidity.

The series was a let down because it was too ambitious and the Writers continually wrote themselves into a corner.

To be fair to the writers, only in the flash-sideways were they dead.

The problem with the show for me was that it encouraged the audience to guess at cliffhangers and mysteries. They initially started solving the mysteries very logically with clues in the show, which was great. They then started introducing new non-reality based elements into the show, which I just found to be weak writing. Plust it took a lot of the fun out of the show as you were no longer able to accurately guess at anything as the answers ended up being spiritual stuff the writers made up off the top of their heads.

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You see that was top 10 in my let downs for the series. When they interviewed the writers, the writers stated that the castaways weren't dead and the Island wasn't purgatory, and they said that multiple times.

Then they completely dropped things like Walt and the comic book powers and other things.

Then I was intrigued by the idea of the two brothers in the last season as the battle between good and evil, and that was in effect pretty lame, and then they killed the man in black in about 10 seconds of stupidity.

The series was a let down because it was too ambitious and the Writers continually wrote themselves into a corner.

Yes, I see your point with the battle of the two brothers/good vs evil. It was interesting, but then the death reminded me of something I would have seen on 'Lost In Space' reruns.

While watching the series, the scene from 'Misery' with Kathy Bates kept rolling through my head, how she screamed because she was so sick of the Cliff Hangers (can't remember what she called them) every week- when someone would die driving off a cliff and then the next week they'd actually be alive because at the last minute they caught a branch before the car went crashing down.

However, I still thought it was a very good series because it made me think and it was entertaining. I watched it all at once though on Netflix, and I know lots of people who lost interest because of the scheduling problems, the waiting for shows, etc. I wasn't able to watch it while it was aired. I really did enjoy watching it all at once.

I did have to buy a book though when I was done, to talk me through some of the episodes and some of the theories.

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by blankall

To be fair to the writers, only in the flash-sideways were they dead.

The problem with the show for me was that it encouraged the audience to guess at cliffhangers and mysteries. They initially started solving the mysteries very logically with clues in the show, which was great. They then started introducing new non-reality based elements into the show, which I just found to be weak writing. Plust it took a lot of the fun out of the show as you were no longer able to accurately guess at anything as the answers ended up being spiritual stuff the writers made up off the top of their heads.

How do you know they were only dead in the flash sideways? Or they were dead at all? I just finished watching around March Madness time this year and I am not really familiar with the theories. Just wondering if that's how the writers explained it?

I really liked how they showed the island from different perspectives which made the mysteries more logical. Like- how the 'others' saw the plane crash, and Ben's perception vs the perception of the plane crash victims, etc.