Why am I not getting 'Lost'?

[Allanon]

Is it just me? Have I truly become so realistic, so rational that watching anything besides programs on Discovery or National Geographic isn't fun anymore?
The reason I'm asking myself (and everyone who reads this) is that recently a friend of mine gave me his taped copies of Lost. He told me that it was the best TV series ever and I'd love it. Well I don't, never have I seen a more engineered piece of mass-marketed media hype on my television screen. Everything in it feels like a railroaded session of D&D by a bad GM.

I mean a polar bear? The fact alone that they put it in the series feels like a strained effort to heighten the mystery. The filming techniques, music and dialog are giving away so much clues to what's going to happen that my girlfriend had to angrily ask me to stop spoiling it all. The foreshadowing alone is ruining almost every surprise there is. And the interactions between the survivors is so unrealistic you can almost see where the writers decided "Wouldn't it be cool/interesting/mysterous/etc to... (fill in the blanks)".

Am I alone in this? Because everyone I ask and everywhere I look on the Internet, Lost is praised into the heavens for single-handedly reviving peoples interest in TV-series. Am I not getting it?

 

[smootrk]

I am actually with you. I don't get the appeal either. I thought that maybe it was just my sensibilities were not in tune with the rest of the Lost Fans.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How far have you goten into the series? I think you'll find there's a great deal of misdirection -- a lot of the "obvious" stuff turns out not to be later on.

 

[Psionicist]

You answered your own question mate.

Have I truly become so realistic, so rational

I think the problem here is you are not trying to enjoy it. Every single movie and tv-serie (and music) sucks if you dont let go first. Ask yourself, would you enjoy this if it was a non-mainstream indie production noone but you had heard about?

It's the geek syndrome and you should try to get rid of that.

 

[David Howery]

Am I alone in this? Because everyone I ask and everywhere I look on the Internet, Lost is praised into the heavens for single-handedly reviving peoples interest in TV-series. Am I not getting it?

it's just you... I blame it on brain damage...

J/K

 

[Agamon]

Yeah, if you over analyze and can't enjoy it for the pure escapism it is, then it is going to be a dumb, hokey show. I assume you don't watch a whole lot of movies, either. There are very, very few of those that don't take some aspect or another outside the realm of realism.

It's not a bad thing to not like TV. I could get a bit more done if not for that blasted idiot box.

 

[NTZ]

Am I alone in this?

You are not alone. I am not a fan of the show. Look on the bright side, you don't have to waste your time watching it now that you know you don't like it!

NTZ

 

[Mad Hatter]

To enjoy most movies and tv shows, there has to be a suspension of disbelief. If you can't suspend your disbelief then no, you aren't going to like or appreciate the show.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Is it just me? Have I truly become so realistic, so rational that watching anything besides programs on Discovery or National Geographic isn't fun anymore?

Sure. Because they never fake anything on those shows.



Hey, to each his own dude. I think Lost is awesome, but I'm really into this thing called "fiction", where you have to "suspend disbelief" so that the experience is "fun".

 

[Crothian]

Lost is like a mystery game. First you have to learn the rules as they have them and not assume realities rules apply. It isn't a show based in reality. Are these people dead? Are they really stranded on an island? We don't know. Many things when first scene make no sense, but later as we get clues things start to fall together.