23 thoughts on “The Last Episode Of Lost”

  1. I watched two episodes when it started, and found them… irritating. Just unresolved plot points galore, and apparently that’s the whole basis for the series.

    I’m not much of a TV watcher anyway, but “Lost” struck me as especially bad.

  3. One thing I noticed in mid-school when we first got a VCR (beta, if you can believe it). I would happily record TV shows I wanted to watch when it wasn’t convenient to watch them, and also to be able to fast-forward through commercials. Then, somehow, I never got around to watching them. Turned out to be a great way to not waste a lot of time.

  4. I watched the first episode and concluded Lost was just another irritating exercise in playing tennis without a net, so to speak. This is something that annoyed me frequently about the X-Files too, back in the day. Certain producers seem not to have any clue about the basics of story construction. Lost kept a lot of very good actors in rent and grocery money for a few years, but one could wish they’d been employed equally well at something more worthy of their gifts.

  5. This is what Lost is about:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjVgF5JDq8

    It’s a film school wank. It’s about “reaching beyond meaning” to find Pure Mystery. All of this has always been completely transparent (as the video above explains in plain english) but the fans of the show are all completely unaware and happily accept crumbs of “meaning” from every episode and speculate, speculate, speculate.

    Ya know, during February I honestly was starting to think that NASA was being run by J.J. Abrams, or at least a fan with a clue, but then they went and spoiled it!

  6. Heroes went the way of Lost. I’m hoping Fringe does not but I won’t hold my breath.

  7. Congratulations. Where should we send a cookie?

    Watching any TV show is purely optional and nobody claims it’s a moral imperative, no matter how many people enjoy it. So why do people have to be such dicks about the fact they didn’t watch it?

  8. So why do people have to be such dicks about the fact they didn’t watch it?

    I dunno. Why do you take it so personally that you feel compelled to call me names, and when are you going to stop molesting little boys?

  11. The last Lost episode was the only one I watched all the way through (I was curious to see what all the fuss was about). I was glad I did it that way. I would have hated to have spent years watching this show for a resolution like that. Clearly, this is a case where the question was more interesting than the answer.

  12. I watched the first few episodes, but I could see the way it was going — down the Ostentatious Ambiguity tubes. Also, I hated — I mean, hated — the two main characters, Jack and Kate. I felt exactly zero sympathy for both of them and their angst.

  13. I watched the entire series – DVRed so I could shoot through the commercials. Most episodes I was also reading or working on the computer at the same time so it wasn’t a complete waste of my time. I’m glad it’s over. But I liked the part where the polar bear came back and horribly mauled everyone… (opps, should I have not said that?)

    Does it count if I never watched a single episode of The Sopranos?

  15. I saw the entire series from beginning to end, same for the revamped Battlestar Galactica. Lost was frustrating, but the intriguing characters overcame the plot frustrations. BSG started out great, but ended in a shell-shocked defeated whimper – as total waste of time. And Baltar’s Playboy mansion cult in the latter half of the series was dumber than anything Lost ever did.

  16. “And Baltar’s Playboy mansion cult in the latter half of the series was dumber than anything Lost ever did.”

    Dumber than the real Playboy mansion cult?

  17. They lost me on the pilot, plane breaks up at 30k+ feet and there are survivors? Lots of them? I was convinced that at the end episode they’d all realize they were ghosts, and leave, but not soon enough.

  18. The problem seems to be the writers had no idea what the story was. It had no foundation of plausibility to make it work. The fan speculation could have provided that foundation, even after a few seasons of the show, but they never got that clue.

    A real disappointment and just heard on the news that I’m not alone in that assessment. It could have been great. They could have explored some aspects of quantum physics that would have been weirder than anything they came up with. Perhaps they should have gotten Hawking as a consultant?

  20. The point of “unresolved plot points” is that it was a serialized, not an episodal, show. I realize that most people haven’t seen a serialized show in ages, and your typical ADD couch potato can’t stand the idea of waiting for anything….

    I missed the first season, got caught up on reruns, and missed a bit of season four, but have been otherwise a pretty regular watcher (hulu.com is great for catching up, especially since I get zero control over the remote control here at home).

    I’ve actually enjoyed seeing questions unanswered, as its made for a lot of healthy debate among the fanbase, speculation on the Lost wiki, and on other fan sites. Fans are forced to do research into what the relevance is of a lot of things, down to the names of the characters (starting with Locke, Rousseau, etc in the first season), whats with the four toed foot statue, what is the smoke monster and who is Jacob. The last episodes of this season have answered a lot of questions, with episodes dedicated to the back stories of Jacob, the MiB, etc.

    If you are given all the answers up front, then theres no reason for you to keep watching, is there?

  21. There was no reason to keep watching after the pilot. Plane breaks up, everybody dies. End of story. Now if they’d ditched it…

  23. All the people saying “it was about the characters, not the mysteries” are merely pulling the wool over their own eyes, ignoring the gaping holes and omissions in the story so they don’t feel like they wasted 121+ hours of their lives watching this donkey’s ass of a TV show.

    I enjoyed parts of it, but overall it was obvious the writers had no effing idea where they were going or what they were doing, and the fact that they admitted as much doesn’t make it OK. It just makes them look like what they are — bozos who took people for a ride yet expect to be called geniuses.

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