Someone
finally did a Red Letter Media style review of Lost. I really recommend it, it grows to be hours long, but its excellent and hilarious and a bit sad to think of the potential missed. So this video review is like closure.
Here's one of the longer parts, there are eight parts, the last is 3 hours long:
The series was hugely impactful for many people my age, during my teenage years, a Star Wars like phenomenon for the 00's.
I'm someone who thought the first 4 seasons were excellent, i
n fact the first two were so peerless, so captivating, that if it had continued at level, we would be talking about it at the level of the Wire, but that when finally decided to go time travel shenanigans in season 5, it broke the story and characters.
The excuse for the ending and season 5 and 6 is that "well the plot was iffy, but the characters were always brilllant from 2004-2010 and they did right by them, but in fact this is not the case".....they
absolutely BUTCHERED the characters, and I couldn't help get that beneath the surface, that they were turning the characters into ciphers, there was no ombusdman/women in the series anymore. Like they weren't aware of just how crazy the events were.
The first season has characters speaking to each other as if they were actual human beings, not talking past each other and its only jarring when you watch clips of season 1 and realise how good the writing and atmosphere was, how real and often likeable ALL the characters felt. How iconic they were.
I believe the writers of the first season said "We were absolutely sure we were going to be cancelled after 14 episodes or so, so we we'll make sure the best damn 14 or so episodes and write them like our lives depended on it"......and it shows.
The people who defend the show as flawless to the end are the epitome of the Dunning Kruger effect and I say that as someone who remembers it fondly and vividly, using nostalgic music themes and spirituality isn't enough. Empty symbolis, that people will derive as deep.
The show should have remained as a Jurrassic Park styled horror/adventure/drama/conspiracy series in retrospect. I still think its one of the best looking series ever made on a huge budget, not done with Game of Thrones like CGI,but all on real locations. The worse thing is in 2007, they had knew had 3 more seasons for certain to end the series and limped it with new age spirituality
He eviscerates the showrunners for the internal inconsistency of the series.