It wasn't that bad. I will say as disappointed as I was with some parts of the finale it was hands-down superior to BSG's. Jack's final scene in the bamboo grove was one of the most powerful moments of the whole series.
COp out just like BSG.
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The two moron showrunners are gold in Hollywood. All the broadcast and cable networks are no doubt fighting over them right now, trying to get them to make a new show for them on any topic.
Those guys belong on HBO, though.
History is written by the people who make money and (a far lesser but still valid consideration) win awards. Cuse & Lindelof have done both. They're definitely hot shit in the TV biz right now.History is written by the victor and its not the haters
I mean, shit. Even Brannon Braga keeps getting work despite being on one fucked up show after another - VOY, ENT, the abortive Threshold, 24 after it stopped being good...the bar in Hollywood is not high.
Also almost every frickin main character died within just over 3 years of the crash. All those struggles for survival and they still die.
To a dying man? One more day is everything.
And the afterlife scenes prove that their deaths were merely a phase in their eternal existence anyway. The struggles for survival were less important than learning to work together and care for each other. And that was the point of the show. Like Cuse & Lindelof said...it's a love story.
No way you can call those guys morons. They've made ABC so much money they can do anything they want.
No, the duo are not morons. Morons couldn't have been such masterful narrative architects in ushering in a completely new form of storytelling. What series had ever attempted to do non linear storytelling or a series spanning arc with such attention to detail or who could have been as nimble in jumping from story to story and expertly timing reveals to where you don't give away too much but you provide enough to satisfy. And look at how beautifully they pulled threads together in unexpected and satisfying ways especially in season 4. In this day and age where you can pretty much figure stuff out long before the writers intend it was a refreshing experience to be continuously shocked and surprised by the twists and turns in the series.
It would be extremely difficult with its interconnected nature to decide when to reveal things or how best to place certain story points but more often they did so extremely well and that takes real talent.
I mean this series had such inventive and imaginative writing that the terms Others, smoke monster, DHARMA etc are now part of pop culture that people will remember for years.
LOST was probably the second series to have done their mythology well. It sure beat TXF, BSG, Twin Peaks to name a few. Heroes season one did it well but just for one year. If there was one thing so disappointing to me is the writers were poised to really go out with a bang with how well they methodically developed things over S3-5 but then it seemed to just fall apart--so instead of continuing to develop and tie off things crescendoing in one Big Satisfying Payoff in the series finale it just sort of spun its wheel and harkened back to the malaise that characterized S2 and portions of S3. I wanted it to wrap up all of its mysteries in the first 2/3 of the season like ENT's Xindi arc or Heroes season one then just shift gears into one big exiting conclusion where you were on the edge of your seat like in seasons 3, 4 and 5's big May finales.
So my disappointment mainly stems from L/C being oh so close to ending on a creative high but instead sort of running on fumes with an incomplete mythology.
Yep - just look at the clumsy, obvious storytelling of V, or the arbitrary who-cares nonsense of FlashForward, to appreciate that something like Lost is not very common or easy to pull off.
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