This show is still by far, one of the best pieces of entertainment I've had the pleasure of viewing. A lot of the characters are super likeable, (some not) but most are. And the amount of effort they put into their backgrounds is insane. As much as I enjoy it I do have to admit that the later seasons were hard to follow. There was just too much going on for most people to comprehend. I've watched the entire series 7 times now. I understand it completely at this point, but it wasn't till my 3rd viewing that I was able to piece together the later seasons. On a side note, I absolutely hate Kate. She was such an annoying pos. Can't decide to stick with Sawyer or Jack so lets screw both, and anytime somethings going on I must be involved. And don't mind me stealing, lying, or trying to screw someone over for my own benefit. What a garbage character.
This will always be one of the greatest series in television history to me because of how detailed and interesting the characters are. The writers probably did not know where this was all going but man... Some great antagonist and protagonist conflicts. Like Twilight Zone meets daytime soap.
Lost was perfect for that point in time, because we didnt know any better. watching it later proves that it was good for only THAT moment in time and it is obvious they didnt either. fond memories tho. I dont intend to get back to the show, because if one digs, there will be holes.
I don't think so. (spoilers ahead) I think they had a plan, but the plan was, "We're going to have this great show and it's going to be really mysterious and everybody's going to be wondering what's going on, and after about 4 seasons we're going to drop the punch line that everybody's dead and it's going to be the biggest shock in TV history!" What they didn't count on, was that everybody was going to guess the punch line before the first episode ended. I remember when it aired and I went online to talk about it, and every single post I saw regarding the show contained some variation of, "I bet they're all really dead." The writers were stuck - everybody had guessed the punchline and they had a LOT of show to write! So they gamely went on and wrote the show, pretending that everybody didn't already know the punch line, and when they finally revealed it acted like it was a big deal even though everybody already knew.
@@SarahB1863 Yes, I believe I read that once as well, but my point remains. They did not know where they were going with the story. As if it was some sort of game, they kept resetting the narrative - a specialty of Bad Robot productions. I found Lost to be entertaining on occasion, and even intriguing once or twice, but by season three I had reached the point of “enough already.” I did make an exception for Evangeline Lilly, as my wife made one for Matthew Fox, so we kept watching and it was a real kick seeing Kevin Tighe play a villain. That is my best memory of this outside the premiere episode, which was stellar. It was the amount of red herrings J.J. Abrams served up in this overwrought and overplayed modern melodrama that caused me to founder on the smorgasbord. It could have and should have been so much better, which (again) is characteristic of Bad Robot.
@@stantheman9072 the show runners were damon lindelof and carlton cuse. JJ abrams co created the show with damon and jeffrey lieber. he wrote and directed the pilot and the premiere of season 3 with damon. he didn’t have much involvement with the show beyond that despite being an executive director. he was busy with his other show alias at the time which is why he didn’t have a whole lot of involvement with the show.
@SarahB1863 It still amazes me that they had a character explain explicitly what had been going on in the last few moments of the finale, and yet people STILL think they were dead the whole time. That's not what happened
There was a smoke monster... Completely forgetting the monster that could kill people in trees, rip trees out of the ground and turned out to be a polar bear!
Is it any fecking wonder I never got past series one of this fecking show???!!!!!! Who has time for this shit??!!! I still could not care less what happened to anyone on that island.
i remember my parents hating this show as a kid.(loved it to death at first) so as a 28 year old i took the time to watch it on netflix a few years back. it really shouldve ended with them escaping the island. you know like it was supposed too? but it was such a hit at the time, they back tracked and had like 5 episode explaining why they should go back. BTW all of them were shit reasons.
Back in the day where waiting a whole week just made every episode special and you'd spend the week talking about it with mates. Todays generation just binge whole seasons of shows in 1 or 2 days.
