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"Lost" Is Finally Coming To An End. Do You Care?

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raptusregaliter

I'll lay my cards on the table: I think Lost peaked in Season 2 and has been in a steady decline ever since. Now it's my favorite train-wreck television, with plots so embarrassing and cliches so abundant (gun-cocking, characters refusing to answer questions, endless treks from one side of the island to the other, mysteries that are introduced and just as quickly forgotten, Hurley saying "Dude," and on and on), that I just watch in amazement and wonder how this show can still have so many hard-core fans.

But now it looks like even the true believers are getting fed up. I'll give you just one example. The Fuselage is a website run by the creators of Lost. Not surprisingly, it has been a reliably pro-Lost site in the forums--until this season. The shift was subtle at first, but last week's episode (about the origins of Jacob and his brother) seems to have been a real watershed event. Fans aren't just hating on the episode--at well over a 7-to-1 negative-to-positive ratio--they are going after show producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse with a real fury. And let me repeat: this is the show-runners own website, and they are getting mocked mercilessly as hacks and clowns and smug, arrogant d-bags. It's like a lot of the Lost faithful are finally realizing that the show has been one long con, and they aren't too happy about it.

Anyways, that's my read on it. You may feel otherwise. But I'm still wondering: Do you care that Lost is coming to an end? Will you miss it?
 
I made it about 4 episodes into the original season then wrote "seems to be written by aspiring TV storytellers with a fifth-grade imagination".
 
I am glad Lost is ending. It actually needed to end last season but here we are. I do not believe the finale can ever satisfy expectations. Evaporating storylines (Walt and Mr. Eko mainly) kind of set the precedence that the show was never truly on the rails the entire time as the producers like us to believe. The first 2 seasons were stellar. Season 3 hit a road bump. Season 4 went into a skid and Season 5 was when the vessel really started pitching end over end.

It's needs to stop.

I do not want to go baaaaaaaack, Kate.
 
Loved it in the beginning and started to lose interest early last season but still watch it. Early on it was more action/adventure but in the last couple of years has really taken on more of a sci-fi feel, which I have never really gotten into.

I probablt would have stopped watching at that point if it hadn't been for the fact that an end date had been announced so I stuck with it since I had so much time invested in watching.

That being said, this is the first season in which I haven missed an episode and didn't really care. I agree thatr the show should have just ended last season but I'll still watch Sunday night.

BTW, the 2-hour pilot is running Saturday night. I think I'll watch that too, just for the nostalgic feeland knowing how good the show once was.
 
As far as I am concerned, "Lost" ended after the first episode!
 
I never watched it, but it was always the talk in my office the day after a new episode...I have never heard so much watercooler talk about a show since Seinfeld.
 
I've enjoyed the show and will be curious to see how they end it next Sunday.

That said, part of me expects that they'll wander over into a different section of the island and discover the skeletal remains of the Minow and it's seven castaways.
 
I'm gunna miss this show. Not quite sure what I'll watch on Tuesday Now.
I just hope they answer all the questions or I'll be pissed!
 
JayR said:
raptusregaliter said:
Do you care that Lost is coming to an end? Will you miss it?
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No and no.
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LOST has been LOST since it started! but then again... putting it on from 6pm(CT)-8pm(CT) & then again from 8pm(CT)-1030pm(CT)for the series finale is a little crazy...
 
I don't think they're going to wrap everything up in some neat bow that will satisfy everyone; you just can't please the whole group. So be it.

Like it, hate it, or never watch it, with so many complaints from boards like this about reality fare and the like, here you have a very complex, and for a segment of the population very engaging, scripted drama (that isn't from the CSI/NCIS/L&O factory). It was different than anything seen in quite some time, and deserves respect for showing that you can tell a deep story that isn't resolved in 48 minutes every single week.
 
imhomerjay said:
I don't think they're going to wrap everything up in some neat bow that will satisfy everyone; you just can't please the whole group. So be it.

Like it, hate it, or never watch it, with so many complaints from boards like this about reality fare and the like, here you have a very complex, and for a segment of the population very engaging, scripted drama (that isn't from the CSI/NCIS/L&O factory). It was different than anything seen in quite some time, and deserves respect for showing that you can tell a deep story that isn't resolved in 48 minutes every single week.
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I agree. It's been a great run and I've enjoyed the show. I'll miss it. But I also agree that it's time to wrap things up. American TV series generally go on for way too many seasons. And with a show this complex, it's increasingly easy to get...uh...lost...in the various plots, twists, red herrings and dead ends. Better to wrap it up and try to explain things before the possible explanations get too implausible.
 
Totally with you there. I know there are others who strongly disagree, and for whom the show has not worn out its welcome. Some people are like me, who think it's become a big tangle of non-answers to anything, and those that will spend hours dissecting every flutter of every eyelash for the deeper subtext. That alone makes it kind of interesting--how many shows get people that involved? (The flip side--how many are just background noise while people exercise or read the paper or...well, we'll leave it there. ;) )

I'm just "playing out the string" at this point, waiting to see how something that I did get into early on finally ends. Will it be as controversial to die-hard fans as the Sopranos finale was? Or the Seinfeld closer that left more than a few devoted fans disappointed? Beats me. I can't see them answering all the questions I have in even 2 1/2 hours, but I'm not going to go all bananas and vow never to watch another show from the creators or something if I don't like what they came up with.
 
imhomerjay said:
Totally with you there. I know there are others who strongly disagree, and for whom the show has not worn out its welcome. Some people are like me, who think it's become a big tangle of non-answers to anything, and those that will spend hours dissecting every flutter of every eyelash for the deeper subtext. That alone makes it kind of interesting--how many shows get people that involved?
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Agreed. Even with that 'big tangle of non-answers', there's a fictional and factual depth to Lost that has made the entire trip worth it. The show has eventually rewarded whatever loyalty that you've given it.
 
imhomerjay said:
Like it, hate it, or never watch it, with so many complaints from boards like this about reality fare and the like, here you have a very complex, and for a segment of the population very engaging, scripted drama (that isn't from the CSI/NCIS/L&O factory). It was different than anything seen in quite some time, and deserves respect for showing that you can tell a deep story that isn't resolved in 48 minutes every single week.
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I looked forward to its run based on the promos but the first episode was far, FAR from realistic and ensuing episodes went into something like sci-fi and soap. I quickly.....um......lost interest.
 
Many a show isn't "realistic," and that's not for everyone, but that was entirely the point with Lost...it was something else entirely.
 
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