People who don't get LOST

[FlashForward]

Oh ya lmao. I forgot that part. Then Jack made the call.

yeah, then Locke hobbled away.
I get asked so many questions from people who know I watch it all the time. They even ask why would I watch it over again. i tell them you miss things the first time there are clues in there.

[FlashForward]

Yup, when you watch things twice you pay more attention.

I know, but people drive me crazy with "why do you always have to watch that show" They just don't get it, it;s not like According to Jim, where you can pick it up wherever it starts. I guess people who don't like thinking don't like the show. It makes you think all the time. I love that about it

[FlashForward]

Yup. If you havent watched all the way from Season 1, you wont understand.

[smirks]

There are just different types of TV viewers, that's all.

Like, it's pretty fairly safe to say that if you've made it to a messageboard of some sort, you're a highly analytical tv viewer. Not everyone is. Some people are content with the pretty and the self-contained story fragment every week, and the general gist of the overall storyarc...getting off the island. And that's okay.

But I can understand the viewpoint of the original post. Lost, and some other shows, work so hard to create whole societies and complex pasts, and mytharcs...it really is the creation of its own mini-world, and it's sad to see something that was created in such loving detail go unappreciated to its fullest. On the other hand, it's nice to see the immense popularity of such a show, because, well, we want to keep watching it, don't we?

And yet, with such a show, you hope that the network doesn't have a hand in dumbing down the plot, leaving the mytharc, and making the show more episodically digestible for the "nonanalytical masses", like certain other JJ Abrams shows, and so many others that have succumbed to network retooling after wonderful starts.

[Coaster]

A friend of mine who doesn't watch Lost at all, was watching the final with me, with me explaining only certain things to him, and politly asking him to just watch it and we will talk later.

I explained the whole Flashbacks deal, and he said to me this isn't a flashback, this is real time they are off the island, i said "NO that is not the way it works"

He kept saying it, and i kept correcting him, to say i was pissed at the end of the show is an understatement.

[Upliftmof0]

Unlucky Coaster. That musta been a painful realisaion, bet he rubbed that in your face! ouch

I think you can get away with starting on season 2 TBH. because back at the beginning of S2 the producers still did a bit of "previously on Lost.." and that would relate back to numerous episodes, explaining bits and bobs as nescassary for the episode. You might not get all the little clever parts and nuances that make the show truelly fantastic but the plot was there and you could get into the show.

So If you have someone who hasnt the time to watch season 1, then season 2 is as good a starting point as any. I mean if you look at the plot at the moment it has little to no-relevance to the story arcs in season 1, so clearly it isnt 'essential viewing'.

Obviously given the opportunit,y it'd be best to watch it all, but not a nescessity.

[vickiev]

Different strokes. . .

To get 'into' Lost, you have to be willing to think. That can be a strange concept for people who like to sit idle in front of a television.

Personally, I never got into Seinfeld or Friends - saw maybe three episodes of each and that was more than enough. People I worked with thought I was nuts. . .

If I'm gonna sit on my behind, I prefer to at least exercise my brain

I agree. There are certain shows that you can just 'watch'. Then there is Lost, where if you are not on your game you are gonna lose out on a LOT of information. I was going to watch seasons 1&2 but the DVD player broke