That's exactly what it is, a Sci-Fi series and its always been presented that way. Unexplained events happen in the very first episode. It's not as if it started out like Shipwrecked and then turned into a Sci-Fi series in Season 2.
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That's exactly what it is, a Sci-Fi series and its always been presented that way. Unexplained events happen in the very first episode. It's not as if it started out like Shipwrecked and then turned into a Sci-Fi series in Season 2.
Please never compare the wonder of Twin Peaks to the massive floating unexplained turd that is Lost
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I don't think anyone could possibly have gone into something like Lost without an open mind and without having already assumed that "stuff" - as random as it turns out to be - was going to happen!
If they'd just done a shipwrecked scenario it would have been boring as a SciFi TV series to be honest - it was the things like the smoke monster and the polar bear that made it interesting from the word go - not oh look another day on the island and we need some food bugger where to find it?!
If they'd just done a shipwrecked scenario it would have been boring as a SciFi TV series to be honest - it was the things like the smoke monster and the polar bear that made it interesting from the word go - not oh look another day on the island and we need some food bugger where to find it?!
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Thats true, I like the progression the show has made over the years from a more straight-up 'Lost on a desert island with mysterious goings on' to the more Sci-Fi type show we have today. I have enjoyed every series as it's the mystery and intrigue that keeps me interested, and all of the theories and trying to piece together the puzzle, it's a show that makes you think and want to know more.
You've got to be kidding me
Bring on Friday already so we can talk about this openly
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Although I was watching it with my brother and he couldn't work out who it was
. Had to explain it to him...Also Twin Peaks and Lost are the greatest shows ever made imo. They're completely on par in my books.
Nah man. Very little gets explained, there are even several massive plot holes from writers strike year that now officially will never be explained. It only takes as much as watching this seasons "0" episode, the prep episode, to see how absolutely ridiculous and almost "Dynasty" sloppy writing like last few seasons became. What started as a suspension story full of mid-season/Xmas break cliffhangers but very coherently told around season 4 started land sliding into mishmash of "one cliffhanger per episode" and what looked like Heroes-alike revolving writers rotation leaving the set taking licenses for plots away on weekly basis.
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Although I was watching it with my brother and he couldn't work out who it was
Who was it?
Don't say Locke.
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We can't discuss it until it airs in the UK on Friday.
Care to name some? It'd be a very boring show if everything got explained straight away.
Have you been watching the same show? Sloppy writing? Lost has some of the best attention to detail I've ever seen in a show, and the character development is done extremely well. I can understand someone not liking the show because of the sci-fi/supernatural turn it took (which was really the only way it could go after the events in S1), but to say that it is poorly written is ridiculous.
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It's Locke but Locke isnt actually Locke.
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It's the dead people.
I stopped after watching episode one, when I realised it was nonsense, and not in a good way.
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It is and it isn't. But I haven't seen it yet, obviously.
I don't understand people that say the plot is confusing and leaves lots unexplained. Allot of the stuff has been explained throughout the show and many questions have been answered, the key point is, and i don't mean to be condescending but it requires you to really pay attention ... I get the feeling that allot of people just don't pay attention enough to pick up on all of the little details that have answered unresolved pieces of the puzzle as the show has progressed and they're pretty obvious when you put your thinking cap on.
Lost really is the type of show that does require you to think and put the pieces together yourself allot of the time, and its pretty obvious sometimes.
The same thing happened with BSG with people complaining about things being unresolved but again it required you to think.
Having everything explained straight away with no mystery would make it pretty boring to watch.
Lost really is the type of show that does require you to think and put the pieces together yourself allot of the time, and its pretty obvious sometimes.
The same thing happened with BSG with people complaining about things being unresolved but again it required you to think.
Having everything explained straight away with no mystery would make it pretty boring to watch
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I haven't seen that picture before, must not have noticed it at the time of watching, but what it depicts makes total sense now, thanks 
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But it was almost very obvious from the last episode of season 5
I think all the events happened in a natural progression. I can't believe some people are suggesting it'd be a better show if it was just about some people that got stuck on an island. All the twists that happen (the hatches, the moving island, the time travel, the insane Locke stuff) had been built up to in a way that, although still shocking, is believable in the world of Lost. And it doesn't straight up give you answers - the writers want us to speculate, to be intrigued.
You should have decided whether this program is for you or not from the very first episode where a polar bear runs out the jungle and a T-Rex is apparently running amock. Either you think it's all a load of toss, or you get intrigued and want to carry on watching, speculating. And if you took the latter option then you should have been prepared for everything that was going to happen.
Above all though, I just think this is a beautiful program. No other show gives me chills down the spine like this one. The characters, camera shots, music and script are all so well developed. Like in (I think) the last episode of Season 4 where Locke and Ben are at the greenhouse - Locke asks what they're gonna do about the armed men. Ben exclaims he always has a plan. Cue the slow but dramatic music and the slow motion footage of Ben slowly walking up to the armed men, whilst cutting to shots of what was currently happening to the other characters.
You should have decided whether this program is for you or not from the very first episode where a polar bear runs out the jungle and a T-Rex is apparently running amock. Either you think it's all a load of toss, or you get intrigued and want to carry on watching, speculating. And if you took the latter option then you should have been prepared for everything that was going to happen.
Above all though, I just think this is a beautiful program. No other show gives me chills down the spine like this one. The characters, camera shots, music and script are all so well developed. Like in (I think) the last episode of Season 4 where Locke and Ben are at the greenhouse - Locke asks what they're gonna do about the armed men. Ben exclaims he always has a plan. Cue the slow but dramatic music and the slow motion footage of Ben slowly walking up to the armed men, whilst cutting to shots of what was currently happening to the other characters.
What? How could you tell from episode one? It's 100% different to how it is now.
'Lost sucks' bandwagon +1 I see.