Can someone give me like a one paragraph summary of this thing? I watched one episode in my entire life, a very early one. It was dumb as bricks, so I never watched it again. However, the Internets can't shut up about it, so I figure I should at least know something.
The show or the finale?
The show has an entire wiki, so it's a bit difficult to sum it up in a paragraph. The gist is that a bunch of people get in a plane crash that maroons them on an island. This island is also a moving, time-traveling magnetic anomaly, and plays host to the remains of a sinister research project that was once there before almost everyone died, a group of really hostile motherfuckers with bad intentions, a living cloud of smoke that may or may not be judging people for their sins, along with some ancient sculptures and a strange stepped temple, to name only a few of the mysteries. Lost is basically the story of the people who crashed, and how they try to escape and figure out the truth behind the myriad questions that the Island (and more likely, the writers) pelt them with.
I only watched a few episodes from season 4 a long while ago, so I had a general idea of who people were and all that. The retrospective also helped out before watching the ending. But after watching the ending, now that I know how it ends, I know that it is definitely not worth watching the whole show for. Also, the story gets so completely ridiculous after season 4 that there really is no other way to explain anything beyond deus ex machina.
This doesn't bode well for me. I honestly have no interest in the show, however I made an arrangement with a friend, who is a Lost fan that I would watch the show if he would watch Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I thought the first season was a lot of fun, the second season was utter trash and the third season was improving when I stopped watching for some reason.
From what I understand, the finale is basically zero explanation of a lot of the show's more supernatural elements, and basically all of the characters in the "flash-sideways" timeline being, in fact, stuck in purgatory. They all then remember who each other are, and get to spend the rest of eternity with their friends from the island.
I thought the first season was a lot of fun, the second season was utter trash and the third season was improving when I stopped watching for some reason.
The 2nd Season was written by Jeph Loeb, the worst writer in all of comics. So there's that explanation.
This video here explained me to what LOST was better than any description. I've never watched LOST, just listened to discussion about it. I felt it made plenty of sense, even if it did spoil the ending...
Now I get it. Sounds like the problem was it was an American TV show and as such went on and on until the ratings declined enough for them to get on with the ending. It probably would have been great as a tight 24 episodes or so.
It was a fun show to watch, don't get me wrong, but I think the best way to watch it would've been to watch it as it was ongoing. If you marathoned the whole thing it might be too silly to bear. I just happen to like silly.
Edit: Also that video pretty much only covers the sixth season. The whole conflict between the Man in Black and Jacob is only introduced in the sixth season. Also it strikes me that the ending of Lost was a bit like the ending of a certain anime that people either love or hate.
Now I get it. Sounds like the problem was it was an American TV show and as such went on and on until the ratings declined enough for them to get on with the ending. It probably would have been great as a tight 24 episodes or so.
Actually, they knew from season two that it would be exactly seven seasons long. It was just poop anyway.
Wow, a lot of hate on Lost. It is not a perfect show, far from it, but it did try to to something different in regular network television. I don't think I needed exact answers to the supernatural elements because for me it created a mythology.
Spoilers maybe:
It is part of the world of Lost that there is an island where 2 "gods" live, an island with supernatural properties, where it seems they need to protect the "life-light." People travel trough time? Who cares. I don't know the name of one of the "gods"? That's OK. They turn into smoke, and into dead people? No big deal, I once read about a god that turned into a goat.
And about the purgatory part, think of it as reading the final chapter of a book and the epilogue at the same time. I think the message here was that the answers didn't mater, they all had to die eventually, we don't need to know how and when. We only need to care about the journey.
The final season pissed me off. Some of the big questions were answered like this:
"So, see that unicorn over there? Wonder where it came from?" "Yes, I do." "Well, we put a horse in a box and when it came out of the box it was a unicorn." "Huh?"
"So, what about that major plot point you were hammering us with a few episodes ago?" "That one? Eh, the writers lost interest in it so we stopped talking about it."
The Long Halloween was fucking fantastic, but I hear that Dark Victory is utter garbage.
Maybe it's better if we simply say that Loeb is...inconsistent.
Other than those two, does he really have any other strong comics? I'm pointing on his fail side with Red Hulk, Ultimates 3, Ultimatum, His Wolverine Run just to start.
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The show has an entire wiki, so it's a bit difficult to sum it up in a paragraph. The gist is that a bunch of people get in a plane crash that maroons them on an island. This island is also a moving, time-traveling magnetic anomaly, and plays host to the remains of a sinister research project that was once there before almost everyone died, a group of really hostile motherfuckers with bad intentions, a living cloud of smoke that may or may not be judging people for their sins, along with some ancient sculptures and a strange stepped temple, to name only a few of the mysteries. Lost is basically the story of the people who crashed, and how they try to escape and figure out the truth behind the myriad questions that the Island (and more likely, the writers) pelt them with.
Every description I've ever heard of Lost just makes it sound like an endless stream of "dun-dun-DUN."
*sigh*
This video here explained me to what LOST was better than any description. I've never watched LOST, just listened to discussion about it. I felt it made plenty of sense, even if it did spoil the ending...
Edit: Also that video pretty much only covers the sixth season. The whole conflict between the Man in Black and Jacob is only introduced in the sixth season. Also it strikes me that the ending of Lost was a bit like the ending of a certain anime that people either love or hate.
Spoilers maybe:
It is part of the world of Lost that there is an island where 2 "gods" live, an island with supernatural properties, where it seems they need to protect the "life-light." People travel trough time? Who cares. I don't know the name of one of the "gods"? That's OK. They turn into smoke, and into dead people? No big deal, I once read about a god that turned into a goat.
And about the purgatory part, think of it as reading the final chapter of a book and the epilogue at the same time. I think the message here was that the answers didn't mater, they all had to die eventually, we don't need to know how and when. We only need to care about the journey.
"So, see that unicorn over there? Wonder where it came from?"
"Yes, I do."
"Well, we put a horse in a box and when it came out of the box it was a unicorn."
"Huh?"
"So, what about that major plot point you were hammering us with a few episodes ago?"
"That one? Eh, the writers lost interest in it so we stopped talking about it."
Maybe it's better if we simply say that Loeb is...inconsistent.
And he was also known for screwing up Heroes too.