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Manx · 05-19-2005, 01:53 PM

Just a note - It's not my intention to annoy anyone with this post, I'm just calling it as I see it.

Lost sucks. As a compelling form of entertainment, it sucks. As a product of a major broadcast studio, it was handled incredibly poorly - essentially an insult to the viewers. In regards to the entertainment factor - a show which spends 4 episodes creating unanswered (unanswerable) questions driving the plot deeper and deeper, then spends 15 episodes of 100% useless filler about the zero relevant backgrounds of 5 or 10 of the characters, only to turn around in the last couple of episodes to answer, maybe, one tenth of those questions it posed in the first 4 episodes - this is considered entertainment? No - it's marketing bullshit. As for the studio screwing up - what the hell were those seemingly infinite number of by-weeks? There were like 5 breaks with multiple by-weeks each for this show? Maybe if the episodes were actually compelling and not simply useless backstory filler, I could say the unbelieveable number of by-weeks was simply a way to make the viewers suffer before being taken deeper into the plot - but since the episodes were entirely useless, the by-weeks were simply compounded wastes of time.

I attribute much of the utter failure of this show to the understandable inability of JJ Abrams to create and oversee two shows simultaneously. Alias also sucked hard this season.

It's a shame too. I thoroughly enjoyed the first few episodes of Lost and as I watched every episode since then, I became more and more disappointed as it became clear that all of these backstories were meaningless. A good television show cannot get by with 4 to 6 interesting episodes in a 20 to 24 episode season.

05-19-2005, 01:53 PM	#501 (permalink)
Manx Loser	Just a note - It's not my intention to annoy anyone with this post, I'm just calling it as I see it. Lost sucks. As a compelling form of entertainment, it sucks. As a product of a major broadcast studio, it was handled incredibly poorly - essentially an insult to the viewers. In regards to the entertainment factor - a show which spends 4 episodes creating unanswered (unanswerable) questions driving the plot deeper and deeper, then spends 15 episodes of 100% useless filler about the zero relevant backgrounds of 5 or 10 of the characters, only to turn around in the last couple of episodes to answer, maybe, one tenth of those questions it posed in the first 4 episodes - this is considered entertainment? No - it's marketing bullshit. As for the studio screwing up - what the hell were those seemingly infinite number of by-weeks? There were like 5 breaks with multiple by-weeks each for this show? Maybe if the episodes were actually compelling and not simply useless backstory filler, I could say the unbelieveable number of by-weeks was simply a way to make the viewers suffer before being taken deeper into the plot - but since the episodes were entirely useless, the by-weeks were simply compounded wastes of time. I attribute much of the utter failure of this show to the understandable inability of JJ Abrams to create and oversee two shows simultaneously. Alias also sucked hard this season. It's a shame too. I thoroughly enjoyed the first few episodes of Lost and as I watched every episode since then, I became more and more disappointed as it became clear that all of these backstories were meaningless. A good television show cannot get by with 4 to 6 interesting episodes in a 20 to 24 episode season.