How Lost's Second Season Killed The Best Show In TV History

[shant]

Madtown,

I'm surprised at this turn. I'm especially surprised after possibly the best episode of Lost of both seasons (possibly second only to "The Walkabout") just aired.

[Dids]

Madtown,

As I mentioned elsewhere, I have a feeling that this is all going to be about expectations you placed on the show and your inability to seperate the quality of the show from the fact that it didn't meet whatever expectations you placed on upon it.

This has happened to me with shows/movies before. I think I see where the plot is going, and I make some assumptions and I get wrapped up in that and don't enjoy the show once it doesn't stay in the direction that I expected.

Frankly, I think this season, especially the last few epps was pretty objectively awesome.

[onthebutton]

The show is high quality. Some people just can't let it develop at the pace the writers intend, and this makes them bitter. They want to know something, and the show isn't ready to tell them yet, so they get pissed. I'm betting that by the end of the series when you view Lost as a whole, it will be an amazingly good story and rank very high on the list of "all-time TV greats".

[pryor15]

i think this is something worth noting when discussing the plot of "Lost":

the master plan, as i've heard it discussed, covers 6 seasons (give or take), which means we're only 1/3 of the way through. i believe the overall plan is in place, but that there is some adaptation available to respond to what fans latch onto (the numbers, etc).

if you look at it like a normal film, we're at the end of act 1, which is generally when the film lays out most of the groundwork, establishes characters, et al. No writer would ever answer important questions in act 1, that's something you start doing in the end of act 2. it's perfectly reasonable for any answers to create more questions than they solve.

so to complain that the writers are just teasing us so far is pretty pointless, since that's exactly what they're supposed to be doing right now. that they're frustrating people makes me think they're doing a good job.

people are just impatient, IMO

[diebitter]

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people are just impatient, IMO

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Maybe, but I'm a big Alias fan (JJ Abrams other series), and was extremely peeved with the ending of series 2, and finding that it isn't explained at all in the first 10 episodes of series 3. That sort of thing bothers me, as I can't enjoy the show for what it is, cos I'm waiting for an explanation.

I really hate cliffhanger series' endings now.

[pryor15]

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people are just impatient, IMO

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Maybe, but I'm a big Alias fan (JJ Abrams other series), and was extremely peeved with the ending of series 2, and finding that it isn't explained at all in the first 10 episodes of series 3. That sort of thing bothers me, as I can't enjoy the show for what it is, cos I'm waiting for an explanation.

I really hate cliffhanger series' endings now.

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from what i've heard, Alias and the X-Files had no overall plan, they were just making it up as they went along. i remember reading somewhere during Lost season 1 that this was not the case, that Abrams had "learned from Alias", etc, etc.

of course, this could be BS, but what can you do? you can't stop watching every show b/c it might implode

[Dids]

What little I know of Alias reminded me of the worst plotting in the worst comics books I had read. Basically an attempt to have things change yet maintain the same 6 characters with the same basic relationships. So it went everywhere and nowhere and ended up blowing goats.