Originally posted by Myth
My experience of watching Lost was interesting. When it was first on TV, I passively watched the first episode. I wasn't watching close enough to pick up that it had supernatural elements. I watched 1 more episode when it was still airing, and that was the one when Walt was kidnapped out on the boat. I was not very into it and it is difficult to watch a show and enjoy it when there is a cliff hanger while you don't have enough context to care. Years go by and told myself that I didn't like the show and felt like I gave it as much of a chance as most new shows (I usually watch the first episode of a show and give it one more chance later if I didn't like the first viewing). It also doesn't help that I've never really been into any drama on TV (Sopranos, CSI, you name it).About 6 months ago, my girlfriend started watching the show through Netflix. I sat by her and was vaguely aware of what was going on, but most of my attention was on my computer. I was probably in the room for about half the episodes from season 1, and sometimes she would fill me in on what was going on or what I missed. She has done this with others shows she is into and I'll try to know just enough to connect with her, but usually it is shows I don't care about (such as True Blood, Hung, and a few other shows). By the time the show introduced its first consistent villain, Ben, I was hooked. Ben added a dynamic to the show that truly made it seem like evil was conspiring and soon it there was nobody to trust. However, I didn't love the show until the time travel stuff began. If there is one sci-fi element that always gets me excited, it is time travel. I love how it was used to explain the Dharma Initiative, which was previously a mystery.
Unfortunately, I have not had the time to go back and re-watch the show, especially considering there were some episodes I missed early on. But hopefully this summer I will, and I am excited that I will be able to get my Lost fix, which some of it will be for the first time for me, which is so very exciting.
I've been re-watching it now over the past 2 months. I'm in season 5, my favorite.
I just watched the entire series this past summer, without having seen it before. Brilliant, brilliant show. It's not often that I need to talk something out for a tv show - a lot of inspired discussions ensued.
I'm now trying to get my best friend hooked - after all, I got her addicted to Harry Potter, which I'm thinking was a tad easier to do that getting her fixed on the DO NOT check your brain at the door L O S T.
I think the thing hardest to understand for me was the alternate universe - especially how Juliet was suddenly Jack's ex-wife.
A lot of awesome wordplay - I remember Juliet explaining the that the snack machines wouldn't work unless you unplugged them, and plugged them in again - and then it turned out that's exactly how the island worked. "Unplug it, and then plug it in again."
Originally posted by Azai Kyosuke
The ending was pretty much a masterpiece of a character-driven storytelling, but ultimately a dissapointment in how it resolved the plot and the mysteries of the setting.
That depends on how you want your mystery solved, don't you think?
You're probably one of those people who prefers to have an answer for every question, and L O S T had a damn lot of questions. If you think about it, the finale did answer every question, but in such a broad way, that if you had a bullet point for every question, a lot of the answers would have to be something like : "That's just the way it worked. The island works in mysterious ways." Etc. etc.
Or answered them with questions to a question... my favorite one was in the finale - "There is no now, here."
I wish they would've settled some more of the more obscure things, but then I can think up some answers that satisfy me, for example when Walt found the comic about the Polar Bear in the Tropics, and suddenly the island had a Polar Bear.
Big fan of the series, but I still have 1 lingering question:
Spoiler:
They said that Jacob and the Man in Black couldn't kill each other. Yet, when Jacob threw MIB into the light, the MIB died. Jacob put his mother's and the MIB's dead bodies in a cave which were later discovered by Jack and Company. And as we know, the smoke monster came out when the MIB was thrown into the light, and he was described as "evil incarnate" (AKA the devil?). So this brings up several possibilities:
1. Jacob killed MIB and the Devil took on his image. Though, this doesn't make much sense because we were told that Jacob and MIB can't kill each other. Also, the Devil was still angry at Jacob, but if it isn't actually MIB, then why would the Devil be mad at Jacob for releasing him?
2. The Devil somehow merged with the MIB's soul. This explanation would suggest that the Devil inherits MIB's emotions, thus the MIB part of him is still angry at Jacob. This option makes more sense than option #1, but it is still a bit confusing as to why MIB's body still died if Jacob can't kill him.
3. MIB simply became the smoke monster. This would be a clear reason for him to be motivated to hate Jacob. Again, the dead body part is a bit confusing.So which option is the correct one?
What I think is none of the above.
This is how I saw it :
Spoiler:
After Jacob "killed" the Man in Black, the spirit got sucked out of the body, but, much like what happened to Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, the spirit could survive though the body couldn't. So the spirit made itself into the shape of John Locke, who was a plausible person to take the spirit, after all, his own spirit was gone.
So the Man in Black [original] was just a shell. The spirit wandered 'round till it found a host body that was also a shell but its body was still capable of holding a spirit.
At least, that's what I think happened.
Originally posted by Mairuzu
The way I see it, it was a show about the characters with the mystery and beauty of the island being a bonus. Kinda of like earth, we'll never know what the **** truely went down here but its the people that are important.Arrogant, I know.
Not really, right on the money I'd say.