Lost is lost
April 10, 2009Last week, I just couldn’t take it anymore. I stopped watching last week’s Lost episode somewhere midway. It was so remote-snappingly bad.
I also know why I’ve had it up here with that overrated piece of junk: there’s absolutely no character development. Sure, there’s character building through the corny flashbacks, but have you ever noticed that the characters in Lost haven’t changed at all over the course of years of in-universe time? Even the group dynamics are exactly the same as during the onset of the series!
Please explain to me how people can go through hell like they have, all the weirdness and hardships and death they’ve experienced - and they’re still exactly the same? They haven’t learned anything? They still all respond to one another in exactly the same predictable way? I haven’t been surprised by any turn of events or any line said by anyone in like 20 episodes. Everything’s so utterly predictable.
In addition, they’re dragging everything on and on and on; the story should’ve been told in four seasons, tops - at least then it’d have decent pacing.
Add to that the cheesy “just-in-time” time travel plot device, and you’ve got yourself a show that started out rather promising, but has since degraded into mediocre bite-sized Hollywood soap opera Americanised flatness.
I didn’t even bother to finish last week’s episode, and didn’t download this week’s. They lost a viewer.
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I suggest you watch this week’s episode and give it another chance. It was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! It was a Ben episode, in which both him and John had character development.
Comment by Dragos — April 10, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
I actually thought it was interesting to see how jack had changed.
he was the skeptic doctor before, and now he is the gypsie weirdo trying to get back to the island because he thinks his fate is there.
He went from saving bens life before, to trying to let him die later.
In my imagination right now the show ends with blondie dying, sawyer and kate living happily ever after, and locke dying to install jack as the new ghost protector of the island
Comment by mc — April 10, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
This week’s episode was one of the best episode of the whole series, and the best of this season. If you didn’t download that specific one, you lose. It’s a mythology driven episode, and many of us prefer mythology over soap.
In all sincerity, the previous episode was not too bad. Sawyer has come a long way of the selfish guy he was for example. Kate too. Jack is shown to not want to save Ben, because he also got over his “fixing things” mania. So, characters do develop, just not in the way shown in season 1. Lost is about redemption, so their development is limited about the specific behavioral thing they have problem with, rather than a multitude of personality points.
Comment by Eugenia — April 10, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
Yeah well!
when you’re right, you’re right.
However, I still find it interesting to watch. You should see the
junk we are watching down here in greece :-)
TV is so bad I can’t be bothered to spend money for a new HD-TV.
spyros
Comment by Spyros Tsiolis — April 11, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
I totally agree! it is so cheesy now!
http://www.gilka.co.uk/2009/04/18/the-day-i-stopped-watching-lost-losts05e13/
Comment by david — April 18, 2009 @ 10:11 pm