Does anybody else miss Lost?

I really think that a "known limited run" would be able to address many of the complaints about confusion and endless questions without any answers. Lost did have a known ending, but not from the beginning. I think it was like 2 seasons in that they were granted a known ending from ABC.

IMHO if they know there will be a guaranteed ending when they pitch the show, then they can start off on the right foot.

Lost and Star Wars both claimed they knew where they were going from the beginning and it was found out later that neither was true. You can only close so many holes with back-fill.

Ok, that's it! I'm starting my own network and I'll only air 5 year long mystery-dramas. Who's with me? ;)
 
I was just thinking about LOST earlier this week, yeah-- I miss it too.

I should have bought the Blu-ray set a few weeks ago when it was on sale at Amazon.
 
I do miss Lost. I started in the middle of season 5. Lol. I was like..what? but started catching on. 2 weeks before season 6 started I watched every episode and caught up. all my friends that were watching it for 6 years were like wait..i forgot about blah blah blah? And watching them back to back like that makes it so much easier to follow. AHH I LOVE LOST. done.
 
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I just miss good TV in general.

I watch my new show....then my wife and I move to NetFlix in the evening (well she does anyway).
 
On the point re: TV shows with finite, pre-determined endings, I'd be a lot more willing to invest time in a show if (A) I knew that the writers had written the whole thing, and (B) I knew that the network was willing to let them tell the whole tale.

This is precisely why I DIDN'T watch LOST. It wasn't clear to me that there was a coherent plan, and even if there was, it wasn't clear to me that the network wouldn't kill it mid-story.

This is also why I tend not to watch TV shows in first run anymore. I've had enough of digging a show and having it die painfully and/or abruptly before my eyes. Unless the show is just one-off episodes, or your season arcs are self-contained, it's just not worth it to me to watch a show that's still on the air anymore. Otherwise, I'll wait for the finale episode, gauge people's reactions to that, and THEN determine if it's worth investing the time.

With LOST...I'm still on the fence whether it's worth it. I know many would say it is, but the negatives I've heard about it make me think it'd probably irritate me.
 
Solo4114 said:
With LOST...I'm still on the fence whether it's worth it. I know many would say it is, but the negatives I've heard about it make me think it'd probably irritate me.
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After hours on a forum discussing Lost with people who love and hate it passionately I've come to the conclusion that there is very little way to predict on which side someone is going to fall before they watch.

There have been all sorts of polls to gauge age, gender, education, faith, personality into the equation and it's all over the place!

One thing I have noticed, which may be totally biased on my part or indication of the types of people who post passionately on forums, is that of those fans, people who watched it from the beginning and really did love it, that loath Lost's ending, MOST of them were also listening to the pod casts or had pretty set and high expectations for the ending to be scientific explanations and congruent 'rules' for the universe that would be explained or at least we would be shown enough to figure it out.

And yet, the more we try to figure it out, the more clear it is, there is not enough information in the show and we have to 'fan fiction' it and ignore a few 'non-canon' comments made by the creators or put into the encyclopedia.

Some of us are fine with a combination of mythology and science answering the questions and find filling in the gaps ourselves fun... and those who Love it are willing to sacrifice a few things that don't make sense for the whole lot of it that is moving and brilliant.

But again, that's just from listening to the complaints on Lostpedia, there may be people with other problems coming from other places that aren't posting them there.

My advice to anyone who hasn't watched it and is about to and wants to enjoy it is to focus on the characters, themes and plot and not so much on the details of how and why things are happening to the characters. A lot of how and why IS explained, but not 100% and the how and why is not what's important to the story - it's watching the characters evolve and take on the challenges, some fail, some rise to the occasion.

If you can see my signature, it sort of says it the best way I can...
 
Yep. I missed it — every single episode! I don't get what the hype was about. Looked pretty lame based on the ads I was bombarded with. I do like one question I've seen posted quite often, about how the fat guy managed to stay fat on a deserted island. Guess its kinda like the Skipper on Gilligan's Island. I miss that show more.
 
Guri said:
One thing I have noticed, which may be totally biased on my part or indication of the types of people who post passionately on forums, is that of those fans, people who watched it from the beginning and really did love it, that loath Lost's ending, MOST of them were also listening to the pod casts or had pretty set and high expectations for the ending to be scientific explanations and congruent 'rules' for the universe that would be explained or at least we would be shown enough to figure it out...
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On this:

I never consumed anything outside of the TV shows (beyond specualtion with friends). No podcasts, no off-season mini-webisodes, etc.

I was ok with the sideways purgatory thing. Not how I would have done it, but within the show I'm ok with it. It actually fit with what I was thinking about the flashbacks in that they started with past, then present then went to future (we just didn't know it was the future until the very end).

Upon reflection, I think what I ultimately wanted from the last season, was one episode, late in the season that explained the Egyptians (or whoever it was) that built the "cork room". I don't need 100% explanation either. Just something that shows how it all started. Maybe just after the Jacob, mom, MIB episode. Leave it magical, I don't need a fully scientific explanation that fits with our reality, but show me how it started so I can understand how the period of show fit into everything else.

I may have to do more of a write up on this (if for nothing else, my own understanding).

Guri - are there similar opinions out there?
 
Yes, definitely there are people (lovers and haters) who wanted/expected more about where the Light, Egyptians and/or structures around the island came from originally.

I've written fan fictions for, as you said, my own understanding and I'm still not 100% satisfied, but a lot more than I was right when the show ended.

I'll tell you what has made me love Lost all the more - the research I did trying to write my stories and looking over the research others have done.

The themes and mythology may not be completely coherent or explained in detail step by step, but there are so many parallels within the storyline, imagery and with the religious symbolism in the show, that it's clear, they threw stuff in that only upon rewatching the show and looking for things could someone pick up on all of them.

Recently someone brought up a song about the mythical kingdom of Shambala that was playing in a Season 1 episode and there was another song Sawyer was singing: Redemption Song by Bob Marley

I never noticed, at the beginning I didn't know that Lost was about Redemption... or that the island was a mythological place where only people with a certain 'karma' could reach. But they threw that kind of stuff in there really early on... Some could say it's too buried to be caught, but others of us really like digging back through and finding easter eggs like that. :D
 
My advice to anyone who hasn't watched it and is about to and wants to enjoy it is to focus on the characters, themes and plot and not so much on the details of how and why things are happening to the characters. A lot of how and why IS explained, but not 100% and the how and why is not what's important to the story - it's watching the characters evolve and take on the challenges, some fail, some rise to the occasion.
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Yeah, I hear ya. I've been able to do that with some shows. Twin Peaks, for example, at least resolved the "Who Killed Laura Palmer?" plotline, although it raised additional questions. I knew it'd end on a cliffhanger, but I watched anyway for the experience. With Life on Mars (UK) I knew it was a finite number of episodes (only 16), but I SO enjoyed just watching the show and the characters interact that I didn't mind some of the more vague elements. Plus, I spolierized it for myself by reading ahead a bit and finding out some of the answers to the more metaphysical questions raised in the show (which were apparently answered more explicitly in Ashes to Ashes). I still felt that they pretty much resolved the show's questions with the last moments of the show, though, even without the later explanations in the sequel. And besides, I couldn't get enough of Gene Hunt. :)
 
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