The first season was absolutely amazing, some of the best television ever — I guess it’s no surprise they couldn’t keep that level of quality (and my interest) going forever. There are two lessons here: 1. Mysteries and horror are better left off screen. What we don’t know is more scary, more perplexing, and thus more engaging. 2. Movies have a distinct beginning, middle, and end (which I prefer)… whereas television shows drag on collecting advertising dollars as long as possible (which I don’t prefer).
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So did Lost jump the shark this week? In a Cheech and Chong tribute episode, we discover Cheech Marin is Hurley’s father so everyone gets together on a remote island to drink stale beer and drive a VW bus in circles. Great fun for all!
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Long ago lost interest. The whole last season with everybody locked up was boring. And as you say, when they did reveal explanations for things (a giant magnet? really?) they were stupid.
Classic mistakes. Viewers want explanations. But the writers didn't really have good ones. So they dragged them out but eventually had to reveal something.
X-Files was great for years. Some kind of scary conspiracy behind the scenes that we couldn't follow. Then they explained it... see there were these grey aliens, and this oil, and these bees, and... wait, thats STUPID!
Same writer as Alias of course, which lost its way with all the Rimbaldi crapola.
The back stories continued to be interesting, and the actors are great, but I stopped watching some time ago.
Nooooooo . . . Party foul Dave, we need the Lost spoiler alert at the top of the post, not after you tell me about who has died. I stopped watching Lost after season 1 because ABC pulled that BS extend the program by 1 minute crap and my crappy motorola DVR couldn't handle the conflict this created.
My plan is to go back and watch the rest of the series on DVD, but had ABC either A.) released each season of LOST on DVD the minute the season finale aired, so that people could catch up over the summer or B.) allowed me to go back and see archived shows online, I would still be tuning in. Instead, they've made the program so complicated and have stopped and started it so many times, that no one wants go jump back in because each week is so dependent on the past episodes.
I think we'll eventually see LOST cancelled, but I bet they give them one more year. If ABC was smarter with their digital strategies though, I bet the series could run a lot longer.
We got to draw the spoiler line somewhere... I think 5 and 10 month lead times are reasonable. ;)
Though, like you I do watch quite a few television series (especially those from HBO, which I don't get) on DVD (a year or more after the fact).