>>Lost was all a communal dream while everyone on the flight died together.
Noooooooo!!!. You've just spoiled it for me. No I'll never work up the courage to watch the series. I've tried watching the first episode several times but I just find it so boring. It looked like a good TV series and really wanted to like it but I just could not get through the first one. I found some of the characters obnoxious. Now you've ruined it for me. Hope you are happy. :)
I recall liking Lost early on, when it seemed that they were all in purgatory, and, one by one, we'd learn their backstories, as they found redemption on the Island.
Is it really ? I remember when the last Episode was out, everyone was like "wow it was awesome" and all, while I seemed to be the only one who did not like it one bit.
> It's exactly why I've never revisited Lost, even though I loved the first few seasons. The suspense and mystery never paid off, and it was too important a piece of the entire show to bother trying again.
I'm not gonna claim it was good or anything, but Lost was more than just the show - and a lot of the payoff for the island's mysteries came from the ARG The Lost Experience - https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_Experience
> The narrative for the The Lost Experience was designed to be a parallel story line not part of the TV show. Considering the deep mythology to LOST, the Experience acted as a way to cover some background that could not be feasibly addressed in such depth on the main show. In particular, TLE developed the backstory to the DHARMA Initiative and its parent company, the Hanso Foundation. It also established some clues about the Island and the true meaning of the numbers.
> I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes.
I did the same thing, and I'm not sure why. The first couple episodes are fine in retrospect, but at the time... I just couldn't get into them and couldn't keep the characters straight. When I finally did get over that hump though, it turned out to be one of my all-time favorite series.
Lost got some crazy publicity (for the time) as well: Lots of people thought the shot of the plane from the inside being torn in two was real, not from a TV show.
It's a mixed bag. Lost was a Rorschach test for which side a person falls on: some loved the unresolved mysteries and made, others got tired of questions that never got answered and quit watching entirely because of it.
> 7th Heaven. I didn’t like it. It was just that I came home at a regular time, and that show just seemed to be on, and I watched it because that’s what you do
This is a big reason why I barely watch any new TV shows these days. Back then, you'd turn the TV on and there would be something, and you'd just watch it even if it was midway through. Today, there's just an endless grid of thumbnails, forcing you to expend mental effort to figure out from the tiny image and 3 line synopsis if it's worth trying.
I had missed a few episodes that season, and picked back up after the two Chrichtons parted ways, but didn't manage pick up on the fact that there were two of them.
I was so utterly confused and upset when the main character just died and they cut straight to the credits.
>>I think you missed some key plot points in the Star Trek lore
> Are you talking about the episodes where genetic engineering was illegal?
> Or the episodes where they completely forgot about that?
Can't you guess ?
The ones that are absolutely not key plot points in the general Star Trek lore, of course.
Congrats on spoiling it for the sake of being a smartypants. Consistency problems in Star Trek, oh noes..
edit: well, well, well:
The station was mentioned in passing in The Lost Era novel The Buried Age, where Picard called it an exception to the rule (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume") that should have never been allowed.
Quite frankly, I chalk this up to too much Roddenberry in early TNG seasons and his love for psychic mutants (and giant talking heads with god like powers).
>I watched TNG religiously as a kid, but once Berman took over and began infusing pointless interpersonal conflict, I lost interest.
Really? So you actually liked Season 1, and lost interest at the start of Season 3? You're a really rare person then. Most fans acknowledge that the first season was pretty bad (esp. the racist episode), and the second season was better but still rough (Pulaski was annoying), and that season 3 was when all the classic episodes started. You're the first person who's ever said they liked the first season the most.
> Do you mean that just the end of the last season was bad, and it was so bad that people immediately stopped talking about it when it finished?
I never watched the show, but the conversations my friends had about its last season match the conclusions of Lindsay Ellis' second video about GOT[1], namely, "yes, the ending has ruined it all". As she puts it:
> What is the legacy of GOT going to be? Because there are endings that ruin a story in hindsight. I used to watch and rewatch the earlier seasons of the show. But now, knowing how it ends, knowing what they are building towards, knowing how nihilistic and stupid and mean it ends up being, there is just no enjoyment in the journey even anymore. Even in the very long process of making these two episodes, rewatching old GOT was just an exercise in frustration because you know now that the buildup that they are going towards has little or no payoff.
> After two episodes I was already bored of the shtick.
Highly suggest to reconsider. It explores many previously unexplored concepts later on. The beginning was ugly, especially if you liked Back To The Future.
Noooooooo!!!. You've just spoiled it for me. No I'll never work up the courage to watch the series. I've tried watching the first episode several times but I just find it so boring. It looked like a good TV series and really wanted to like it but I just could not get through the first one. I found some of the characters obnoxious. Now you've ruined it for me. Hope you are happy. :)
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