Lost was eventually proved awesome, once it revealed its true nature in the last couple of seasons.. And they totally justified the slower exposition focused early seasons.
And then they explained a bunch of stuff, and revealed a bunch of stuff that those who quit earlier would never get hip to....leaving them often with just that opinion. Its just really grounded in single timeline paradoxless time travel but spread in its intricate web over 6 seasons with its mulitude of interwoven storyarcs.
And features black holes too.
BTW the red ball thing, is a personal thing of Abrams.
Like a trademark.
(Now it a red ball is at the center of this island controlling everything, Im gonna be really f***ed off. )
i do here a lot about Lost from some of my friends, and im just like: "i lost interest in this so long ago, why's it interesting". I guess if it's taken 6 seasons for Abrams to explain it a bit better fair do's but for the people that like to watch something and get the general gist of the story from the get go, he's not done a great job...
films on the other hand or better for Abrams style of story telling. Cloverfield for example, nothing was known about it until a week before its theatrical release. Viral campaigning saying nothing about the overall plot, and even the film itself, doesn't explain much, but people loved it...
that sort of backs up my point. written by guys whose writing credits incdlue Transformers (which had a silly plot), Fringe (which is just silly, again), and Alias, which, well, i don't have to go on to that.
and Abrams did direct. His input was as important as the writers (if not moreso).
i watch it vicariously, because my brother watches it and then decides to tell me every last bloody detail of the episode he just watched, not realising that i don't care about the guy who is and isn't locke, or the giant statue, or the constant time travel, or dead people appearing miraculously on the island.
But LOST were trying to tell a definite story arc but had no idea at what angle to arc it at, without having an end point.
When they producers negotiated with ABC/Disney etc, they managed to say 6 seasons, so there was a slower pace up until half way through season 3, which is when they started to be able to execute it and bring the big pieces into play.
Thats when the plot went to warp finally.
But yeah the first 6 or so episodes of season 3 were murder for the viewer, be you fan or non fan.
Im not surprised, cause its so involved now and interlocked that its almost impossible to convey whats going on, because of the sheer volume of stuff now. And any attempt to get across the appeal and genius with mere words is doomed to fail.
And like you say, if you arent invested in the plot/characters it would sound like the rantings and ravings of a lunatic even more so...
You definitely have to experience it first hand to get the best of it.
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