You really think we got a full 6 seasons worth of character development?!
That's my whole problem with Lost, the beauty of Lost was that right from the start we were so interested about the characters and their back history. This is what kept you coming back for more.
But surely you have to accept that this deteriorated rapidly in the later series?
I'd almost accept that the 'meaning behind all of the island's mysteries wasn't important, that was just the catalyst that drove the character development onwards', if that had actually been the case. But the writers chose to try and do both. But the plot they came up with in the later series was dire.
My whole point about the ending was that it could be used at any point during the show, as the concept was basically, you've seen their journey, this is how they all met up afterwards. The journey was interesting to begin with and the character development, back stories and interlinking was what kept you coming back for more.
This rapidly got replaced with pointless stories and weak scriptwriting. By the end of the show, Lost was surviving on the fact that people had invested so much time in the earlier series, that they wanted to see how it ended.
The disappointment was not the ending in itself, but just that they dragged out the show for 6 series, to give us an ending that would have been far more fitting at the end of the first 2 or 3 series.
That's my whole problem with Lost, the beauty of Lost was that right from the start we were so interested about the characters and their back history. This is what kept you coming back for more.
But surely you have to accept that this deteriorated rapidly in the later series?
I'd almost accept that the 'meaning behind all of the island's mysteries wasn't important, that was just the catalyst that drove the character development onwards', if that had actually been the case. But the writers chose to try and do both. But the plot they came up with in the later series was dire.
My whole point about the ending was that it could be used at any point during the show, as the concept was basically, you've seen their journey, this is how they all met up afterwards. The journey was interesting to begin with and the character development, back stories and interlinking was what kept you coming back for more.
This rapidly got replaced with pointless stories and weak scriptwriting. By the end of the show, Lost was surviving on the fact that people had invested so much time in the earlier series, that they wanted to see how it ended.
The disappointment was not the ending in itself, but just that they dragged out the show for 6 series, to give us an ending that would have been far more fitting at the end of the first 2 or 3 series.
