... at first.
I managed to watch every episode (possibly with a few exceptions) of all six seasons of the raved-about series. Whenever I was asked "Do you like Lost?" I would innocently reply "I haven't seen the whole think, yet." I did not stop after the experiments with magnetism and polar bears, and continued through transporting islands and back-from-the-dead moments. All of it, I sat through, hoping that the last minute something would be explained (heck, I even sometimes hoped it was all a dream).
But, unfortunately, the ending came and I was not impressed. Yes, there was a lot of symbolism, but I can have Jesus holding a hammer and sickle in front of an eight pointed wheel wearing a two toned skirt and not know what it means. There was an attempt to make meaning from something that seemed like a mistake. The beginning of the show was tamed and interesting. Strangers meeting on a island from a plane crash. Their backgrounds being shown to us so we can judge how they have developed as a human being. We begin seeing how their paths intersect with one another and why a greater force may have put them here. The ambiguous title "Lost" was a sense of direction in each of their lives at that moment. In the physical sense they have no clue where they were, and everyone assumed they were dead, and in a spiritual sense that their lives got in the way of their living. I found the plot, at first, to be very focused around the study of these people's actions and how they have shaped them. Yes, I liked Lost and marveled at the concept... I use the past tense for a reason...
It started going very downhill, very. Not only does each character have their own personal back story, but now there is a back story of the island? New characters are introduced with the already large cast? I tolerated it. Civilized people on the island, all seemingly scientists? Okay, maybe they should have slowed down. I did however enjoy Ben's cynical character and how he played out (I guess the sci-fi bull stuff had some good qualities). But seriously, nobody is fluent in Latin...
Anyway, I can't see how I can say this over and over again and not get all my frustration out. Lost use to be a good show, but the writers kept making promises and new fairy tales and eventually were told "You gotta rap this up soon," so they panicked and make a terrible ending. Yes, the ending is terrible, it's just a bunch of symbolism that is contradictory and unnecessary. Things didn't add up, so they kept multiplying. It got out of hand, like it were some unchecked wiki page where people would write new plot lines (flash backs, flash forwards, flash sideways, flash adjacent, flash diagonals, flash afterlives, flash medievals).
They ruined what could have been a wondrous journey through the lives of strangers. They ruined it, ruined it, ruined. I only gave it a 3/10 because they started with something beautiful, lost people, and ending with something ugly, lost plot direction...
I managed to watch every episode (possibly with a few exceptions) of all six seasons of the raved-about series. Whenever I was asked "Do you like Lost?" I would innocently reply "I haven't seen the whole think, yet." I did not stop after the experiments with magnetism and polar bears, and continued through transporting islands and back-from-the-dead moments. All of it, I sat through, hoping that the last minute something would be explained (heck, I even sometimes hoped it was all a dream).
But, unfortunately, the ending came and I was not impressed. Yes, there was a lot of symbolism, but I can have Jesus holding a hammer and sickle in front of an eight pointed wheel wearing a two toned skirt and not know what it means. There was an attempt to make meaning from something that seemed like a mistake. The beginning of the show was tamed and interesting. Strangers meeting on a island from a plane crash. Their backgrounds being shown to us so we can judge how they have developed as a human being. We begin seeing how their paths intersect with one another and why a greater force may have put them here. The ambiguous title "Lost" was a sense of direction in each of their lives at that moment. In the physical sense they have no clue where they were, and everyone assumed they were dead, and in a spiritual sense that their lives got in the way of their living. I found the plot, at first, to be very focused around the study of these people's actions and how they have shaped them. Yes, I liked Lost and marveled at the concept... I use the past tense for a reason...
It started going very downhill, very. Not only does each character have their own personal back story, but now there is a back story of the island? New characters are introduced with the already large cast? I tolerated it. Civilized people on the island, all seemingly scientists? Okay, maybe they should have slowed down. I did however enjoy Ben's cynical character and how he played out (I guess the sci-fi bull stuff had some good qualities). But seriously, nobody is fluent in Latin...
Anyway, I can't see how I can say this over and over again and not get all my frustration out. Lost use to be a good show, but the writers kept making promises and new fairy tales and eventually were told "You gotta rap this up soon," so they panicked and make a terrible ending. Yes, the ending is terrible, it's just a bunch of symbolism that is contradictory and unnecessary. Things didn't add up, so they kept multiplying. It got out of hand, like it were some unchecked wiki page where people would write new plot lines (flash backs, flash forwards, flash sideways, flash adjacent, flash diagonals, flash afterlives, flash medievals).
They ruined what could have been a wondrous journey through the lives of strangers. They ruined it, ruined it, ruined. I only gave it a 3/10 because they started with something beautiful, lost people, and ending with something ugly, lost plot direction...
