Me. I'd be happy if LOST well...got,
lost.
Clearly we are either too discriminating, or lacking in imagination. I know my imagination is just fine, and from your posts I'd conclude the same about you.:biggrin1:
I certainly know my imagination, but I have found it very hard to put all the pieces together and see it clear. Also it's obvious that probably completed storylines from older episodes and seasons are neither irrelevant, nor lose relevancy, so you can't work your way around these past episodes.
I never understood all the hype around "Lost" either. I tried watching it numerous times during its first couple seasons and gave up.
It has started airing in fall of 2004. At that time, I have just been on my world travel out of one bag, so the first two seasons went past me completely. I have never been such an avid TV viewer anyway, and if it hadn't been for the increased pick-up of the talk about it around me and on the net, I'd never have taken interest in it. However, as I've said, my attempts to get into it failed feebly.
Anyways, I would just reccomend for you to go rent all the prior episodes.....sit down and watch them at your leisure and then tell us if you are hooked or not.
...because there is always a lot of stuff going on.......but I don't see how anyone could start watching the series right now and have a clue as to what these people have been through.....
It is a lot like the show Desperate Housewifes. Since I haven't seen that show since the begining and I don't know who anyone is...
I wish I had the time for that! But let's see: We have season 5 airing now, that makes four complete seasons, each at 22, 23 episodes, about 45 - 50 minutes. That'd be material for 3.5 - 4 days of continuous viewing. And obviously, watching once wouldn't be enough, according to Skull Mason and some of the guys at About.com.
The difference to Desperate Housewives, another show that I watch at irregular intervals, is that MSNBC.com entertainment always gets me up to date, and the character descriptions there are all I need to understand any episode given to me.
I think the problem a lot of people run into with LOST is that they watch it purely for entertainment face value, like you would HOUSE or NIP/TUCK or 24, or any other show really. You can't just sit down with LOST (especially multiple seasons into it) and expect to understand everything.
Does anyone here know where they are? In every episode, there are hidden clues as to where they are and what the fuck is going on. Sometimes you have to watch an episode twice to get it all. They don't just come and and give you information, which I think frustrates a lot of viewers; but its there. Sometimes the clue comes in the form of a song playing on the radio in a car in the background. Sometimes it comes in a short, quick comment by someone regarding how the light scatters on the island.
Don't just watch it for the story at face value, there is a lot more depth to it. And if you really try and figure out/follow all the clues you will indeed find yourself lost, but that is the fun in it. I have stated my hypothesis in the other LOST thread, but it is fun watching every week for information that would give further support of it.
Don't misunderstand me, I have always liked good suspense, and movies/series with a good mystery that isn't easy to be cracked. At times, I think being one of the characters could be something for me (isn't there a Claire on the show anyway?), but what I don't like is that I'd have to watch every episode three or four times, on a 60"-HD-plasma screen and with a high-end HDD recorder plus professional video editing and audio analyzing gear to dissect it and pick out all the bits.
On the question of where they are, I can definitely answer that question for you: In the last drawer of my desk. Anything that is being dropped into it is once and for all times lost, and I think once I have even thrown a desk scale model of a plane in there. There's also an island of dust in it, and if I don't clean it out, you'll even find vegetation in it.
I agree with you Claire. I don't get the hype and when I have tried to watch the show, it fell flat.
Lost just well, lost me. I even tried to catch up by watching the DVDs (my 15 year old's girlgfriend has them on DVD and TiVO), but the plot and story just wasn't my speed when matched up to all the hype it gets. Maybe it is the equivalent of a nouveau late night soap or the old time serials in the theaters. ALIAS was kind of the same way.
Props to ya Skull for mentioning House. Hugh Laurie is genius in the role.
My sentiments, exactly. So both of us, plus a few others, won't join the exclusive club of the Lost understandings.
I have asked many Many people to explain Lost to me and every one has failed thus far.
Do me a favor: Get three or four regular watchers together around you, pay a few drinks, and then casually and to no one in particular drop the question what that show's about. I'd pay to hear all of them chiming into each other, interrupting, and making the whole matter even more confusing. Because exactly that is my experience.
So far, I have always made good experience with the explanations at MSNBC.com, plus, I had thought that NJQT's post of the About.com section could have helped me. The sheer amount of information there made me fall into despair!
Sorry, I still am an avid fan right up to the present.
I take it you watched it from the first episode, then?
I think it could interest me too, but I have missed the boat by now.
