10 reasons LOST sucks

Man, this is some good stuff. Looks like I am first to find your blog!

HA! I Love this show! But it’s true NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!:)

You have a few valid points here. But overall considering all the reality crap that is currently on TV this is about as good as it gets. I will continue to watch as long as it’s on. You just have to suspend disbelief a bit and let yourself get hooked into the show. Then its like crack and you can’t get enough!

I’m a die hard fan and I think you are pretty much full of it. Lost is the best show on TV.

A agree wholeheartedly with your #2. It drives me batty! I just want to see what’s going on!

Half the shows on TV use the “shaky camera” technique. I agree it’s annoying. It won’t stop me from watching though.

I like # 7. I had to google “cone of silence” to find this link http://www.tvacres.com/commun_booths_cone.htm. Too funny.

I don’t know if you get why LOST is so popular. It’s the whole mystery of the show and the many layers that the casual viewer misses. You can’t just pick it apart, because any tv show has it’s faults.

LOL #6

Man, you need to get out more.

Lost may have it’s faults like all shows, but it’s really the best we have right now. At least it’s not some reality show crap. I am addicted to it, I’ll admit it!

1. Nothing ever really happens.

I can’t agree with this one, in most episodes a lot of things hapen, you seem to just be picking on the occasional bad episode.

2. The shaky camera work.

I happen to like the shaky camera, it may get kinda irratating some times, but most of the time a shaky camera works a lot better then a still one would.

4. 3 episodes then reruns for a month.

Almost every other ABC show does this, I actualy prefer the “3 episodes, 3 reruns” method, instead of having one long painfull break inbetween seasons there’s just a bunch of short breaks.

5. The flashbacks don’t add anything to the show.

Au contraire, the flashbacks build character, it’s very intresting to see why the castaways are making the decisions that they’re making.

6. Too Many New Characters.

I agree, but I don’t think that it’s that big of a deal, the island is very mysterious, there is a reason why so many people are there.

7. The Dharma Initiative Is Rediculous.

Not realy, Lost wouldn’t have nearly as deep a plot as it does if the show was just a bunch of stranded people trying to surivive, there would be no real protagonist, and there wouldn’t realy be any mysteries.

8. They Live on the Beach When They Should Live in the Hatch.

in the hatch an alarm goes off every 108 minutes, is that the kind of place that you would want to sleep in?

9. The original premise is flawed.

Now I agree that if the plane did break apart in mid air the original premise would be flawed, but it’s not certain that the plane broke apart, or even that they realy crashed, the producers have said that “we will find out why flight 815 crashed sometime this season” it sounds to me like there’s more to the crash then we know.

10. Pressing the countdown button. Enough said.

No, not enough said, now personaly I think that there should have been more revealed about the button and the nubers by now, but I don’t see any problem with pushing a button.

bashveank,

I appreciate your thoughtful response to this post. You make some good counterpoints to my arguments. I guess we will see what happens in the coming episodes. Thanks for posting.

-Tyler

Thanks for not being a jerk, most people running a website like this would have.

Let me just say this

I’ve seen SMALVILLE progress faster than Lost.

‘Nuff said.

Tyler, THANK YOU! Your website is just what I needed. Number 1 and 4 rock and they are why I can no longer watch the show. The problem is I wait 3 weeks for an episode then I get a “recap” nothing episode and then two weeks later they kill more characters I care about.

In short, I’m done. But not forever, in 3, 5, or 8 years when the show ends I will watch it rapidly on DVD or some other format. No more waiting for answers that never come. My hope is that if enough people quit watching they will realize (“they” being the writers, producers, directors) that they have to give-up some definitive answers and close out some questions. Below are a couple links that mostly describe how I feel, except the part about watching it all at once, which I would do).

http://blogs.compnor.net/hose311/?p=5
http://blogs.compnor.net/hose311/?p=98

So do you really think Lost sucks? You seem to watch every week! Yes, it gets a little annoying the waiting and wondering but isn’t that what keeps us all anxiously anticipating the next episode? The fact that we’re hooked is why we get so mad when there is a repeat or recap episode! We’re all Lost junkies in one form or another!

This article from CNN tells us what those of you who continue to watch ‘Lost’ are in for. Personal, I have not seen an episode since my first post. Rehab is helping.

After five fascinating/frustrating seasons, the Jennifer Garner slinky-dress-wearing/ world-saving/ dysfunctional-family drama “Alias” reaches its conclusion Monday night. Those of us who have hung on for the rocky ride are hoping against hope that the ludicrous number of outstanding mysteries will miraculously be solved.

But it’s doubtful. And that serves as a warning to fans of J.J. Abrams’ bigger hit, “Lost,” which also rides on the premise that someday everything you’ve seen will make sense.
When “Alias” began in 2001, it was addictive. Balancing a “normal” life as a student with a fantasy world of espionage — backed by a “Run Lola Run” music beat — the story of Sydney Bristow pulled us in. We joined her search for the truth about the agency she worked for, her family, and herself.

Even when J.J. tossed out the premise, ending Sydney’s normal life (no more friends or studies) and double-agent duty (the nefarious network she worked for went kaput), we kept watching — largely for the incredibly complex family triangle of Sydney, her distant father (Victor Garber) and is-she-really-evil mother (Lena Olin).

But we were too rarely rewarded. “Alias” kept layering dozens of fresh mysteries without resolving most of them, and took so many sudden left turns it made us dizzy. Even now, on the eve of the final broadcast, we still don’t have answers to some of the biggest questions introduced in the first season.

Just a sampling: Did Sydney’s mom really kill CIA agents, including Vaughn’s father? How can Sydney be the woman prophesied by Rambaldi when she climbed a mountain to prove she isn’t? Who is this Rambaldi guy, and how did he prognosticate everything? Why did Sydney’s Aunt (Isabella Rossellini) try to kill Sydney and Vaughn? Why exactly did Sydney have those two years wiped from her memory?

At one point the show teased us, having Sydney’s nemesis-of-the-moment suggest the answers lay in a bank vault. But then the writers threw that opportunity away, giving us virtually nothing.

The twists lately have felt like efforts to patch up some holes — not the results of thoroughly mapped-out storytelling. In fact, it often seems like J.J. and company forgot all about some of the mysteries — or are hoping viewers did…

How bout the fact that the crash survivors seem totally content with staying on the island instead of trying everything they can to find a way home or signal for help?

And by the way, the best shows on tv are The Sopranos and 24.

I totally agree. I am SO sick and tired of people yapping about Lost’s “complex, intricate mysteries” and “deep storytelling.” Lost is not profound in any way. Throwing in random “deep” references like “Locke” and “Rosseau” does not equal layered storytelling. Here’s the truth: Lost is shallow. These “deep” characters? Come on. A traumatic experience doesn’t automatically create a layered character. Plus, so many of the flashbacks are repetitive or useless. Hey guys, JACK HAS TO FIX THINGS. I sure didn’t know that!
How many plot aspects have been ignored since the first season? Polar bears, anyone? The writers also seem content to throw away characters without fully exploring their storylines (Boone, Shannon) in favor of irritating new characters (Ana-Lucia, who was killed anyway). The whole show is a mess.
Oh, and I really hate Lost fans saying things like, “You just don’t have enough patience,” “You don’t appreciate the intellectual qualities of Lost,” “Obviously you must watch reality crap,” etc. I laugh at Lost fans who feel their show is sooooo superior to reality shows or other programming. No, actually, Lost comes across worse. American Idol at least doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a hyped-up talent show. Lost poses as a highly philosophical drama when it’s really about as insightful as a fortune cookie.

Great post Random Viewer!!!

Excellent assessment. I was initially hooked on ‘Lost’ as it was what ‘Survivor’ was supposed to be (before every season began with the alliance/soap opera scenarios).

I suspect that ABC may learn that insulting their viewers with endless prime time repeats, recap episodes, and ‘filler’, may have a negative impact on their ad revenue, (most advertisers conduct their own market research on viewing habits – once they determine that only 17 year old girls are watching, the chargeable rate for ad time on ‘lost’ may significantly diminish, then it will end, and another great idea for a show will have gone down over issues of poor management).

Great points Julian

amen to that! the show is getting really bad.

I disagree with several statements above that “Lost” is the only thing on television worth watching, or that its not worth watching but that it is the most tolerable of all the junk on television.

Yes, Lost sucks.

But there is at least ONE show on television worth watching that has yet to disappoint – Battlestar Galactica (Redux, on Sci Fi Channel).

Lost – CRAPPY Sci-Fi Drama

Battlestar Galactica – GOOD Sci-Fi Drama

Watch the miniseries that started it and you’ll see what I mean. The first episode of the first season (”33″) is probably the best drama ever put on TV.

F*ck Lost.

Ok all TV sucks compared to 24 and lost wishes it was as cool and progressive as 24 and oh yea funny stuff i watched 3 episodes of lost and i was like WTF this show is sooo much BS PEOPLE WATCH A REAL SHOW THAT IS WORTH ALL THE HYPE 24!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok im done

Why continue to watch a show that you can’t stand? Surely you can find better things to do with your time?

Most people who carp the loudest about how Lost supposedly sucks watch it again and again. That’s the real mystery.

IF you dont like the show, then dont fucking watch it!

ya Knobend!

you missed out the most annoying thing about lost -
#11 The people who watch lost are so annoying. i have mates who won’t come down the pub because lost is on! Get a grip of yourself. you only watch it because you want to be up on the gossip so you can talk about it with your buddy’s who watch it. Even better if you can get ahead of the game by downloading an episode.

it makes me laugh the way ppl brag about how far they ahead they have seen. well done you down loaded a TV show.

Funny Bastard

I think Jericho is going to be worse

I agree with the website name…. Lost does suck. If you wanna watch something with more excitement…. 24 is where it’s at. You can’t get any better than 24..

If you consider LOST to be the most engaging and well written shows on TV, spend and hour watching DEADWOOD and experience TV that isn’t dumbed down, isn’t pandering, and doesn’t treat it’s audience like eager puppies waiting for table scraps.

Since about the middle of last season my wife I felt that the show was losing its promise. It has continued to go down hill since. It is no longer intriguing and just stings us all along like the dolts they think we are…I’ll still watch it every week. Don’t want to miss it when something does happen.

The bastard step-child of the “x-files”. Nobody really knows what the fuck is going on and nobody cares. It’s called hell. I can’t believe it lasted a season, much less this long.

Lost is good , but you cannot even begin to compare it to 24 or Prison Break. You probabily get more action in 1 episode of 24 or Prison Break then you do in 1 whole season of Lost! So watch 24 and Prison Break too see action and watch lost if you want to see a bunch of people on an island for 8 seasons!

What losers u guys all r, ha shame on u’s u fink dat jst cuz uve been 2 dummbed dwn by sitting on ur fat arses nd playing on da compute all day, nd as da person said “if u dunt lyk it, dunt watch it” Amen to dat!!!

Also about prision break, yea its ok, but oh wait every week dunt they say “nw we r breaking out” yep and im about 2 fly ova 2 finland and tap dance for my soon to be husband frog

and 24? if i wanted to see a ugly unshaved guy running around nd trying to stop things frm blowing up id watch 2 c wat ma dad dus wen i set off fire crackers!

Eyez wants to give big ups to KC fo represent’n Staines, aiiight!

Respeck

Just found your site the other day.

Fabulous!!!

I watched Season 1 and 2. and now Season 3. I dont really know what the whole Sh!t is about. takes me ages to download here in Afria only to find out that its the same old sh!t. Nothing is happening in this crap!. they are just shaking the camera and adding intense drama music. Thats it!. Prison Break and 24 rock!. I love them, they get you excited ! .. not pissed off cause you keep watching episode after episode and not know shit!. Some people say.. well dont watch lost.. you dont get it.. we have to watch it cause we spent so much frickin time trying to get even a single answer!. arghgh it sucks

u guys r overslydumbbed dwn by having to bitch on da internet to get ur point out,

If u actually pay attention, u will understand it, lyk me nd my class mates do
and at least lost dusnt lie to you, yes it makes you think dat a certain fing is gunna happen, bt it dusn’t, bt dey neva said it wuld hapen! its ur own fault!! !!!!
prision break “now… they…. are…. breaking….out!” yea sur, they were also doing dta 7 episoides ago!

You must secretly deep down love this show to make a website about it.

This show IS very deep. One of the things that comes to mind is pushing the button. This represented religion and faith. People tell us about religion and if we have faith good will come. All locke had was desmonds word, but when he lost is faith he came close to dying. The motif was “Can someone survive on faith alone”. Hard to explain.

the numbers and dharma were all explain in the lost expereince sri lanka video. it made sense.

Another good quality of the show is how it can be watched infinite amount of times and keep finding new things. very unique.

Also how every episode is a cliffhanger, thats very hard to pull off.

There is no show deeper than lost.

this show, there has never been a show like it. michael emerson is the best actor out there. he can send chills down your spine with just one sentece. i could so write a book about the greatness of this show and its creators and actors, but dont find a point in doing it, all i would be doing is stating the obvious to a lostfan. as for the nonlost fans,, you are all ignorant. watch season 1 dvds, and u will be hooked. watsh the season 2 dvd’s and it will consume u.

“this show, there has never been a show like it. michael emerson is the best actor out there. he can send chills down your spine with just one sentece. i could so write a book about the greatness of this show and its creators and actors, but dont find a point in doing it, all i would be doing is stating the obvious to a lostfan. as for the nonlost fans,, you are all ignorant. watch season 1 dvds, and u will be hooked. watsh the season 2 dvd’s and it will consume u.”

OMFG! The above comments pretty well sum up what is annoying about rabid Lost fans. “You just aren’t smart enough to understand the brilliance of this show!” Let me start by saying, everybody enjoyed season one. The show still had focus and appeared to be on track for, say, a solid three year run with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Success has ruined the show. It’s plain to see that by being a ratings monster, pressure has been placed on the writers and producers to extend the show indefinitely. Instead of a tight storyline we get endless character introductions and flashbacks. When you write your book on Lost, maybe you can tell the real story, one of wasted potential and network greed.

Lost is crap, I wont even watch the show, its not deep. It’s an overly dramatic Gilligan’s Island. And listening to all you people whine about how great it is just makes me want to see it less.

Here is where I am “lost” (pardon the pun). Why create a website about a show you think sucks but it is clear you watch every episode to tell everyone it sucks?
Now here is where you will be “lost”: I’m not a huge fan of the show either. A lot of mystery and a lot of people telling me “it’s a thinking show” “the numbers are everywhere man, it deserves re-watching” “the best show on tv”. Ok it has its good points, its well acted and the stories are well-crafted but I do agree not a lot happens. I do like mysteries in shows, i.e the X files, but whilst shows like the X files didn’t reveal their full hand in one go, you got some closure on the episodes because some were self-contained. In Lost, the mystery is on-going and, in my opinion, I think the writers are testing the audience in how long they can kept their audience hooked before they don’t care any more.
I can’t see the show’s enormous appeal nor how it has kept going for so long but that’s just me. I’m a 24 man and always will be.

lost sucks

The reader above who made the points about the “lost” promise of Alias is exactly correct. J.J. and company never seem to be able to answer the hard questions. One glaring faux pas was the recovery of an artifact from a void space under glacier apparently sitting on top of a body of water. You’re not going to get that kind of static situation that would preserve the artificat without massive (and completely unsupplied) explanations.

Lost looks to be going the same way. It’s almost like the writer’s sessions involve random pages of “neat and new experiences and characters” that are then wadded up into spit balls, thrown against the wall, and then a random sampling is made from those that stick. THIS, we’ll call, PLOTTING!

I’ve stopped watching except for the occasional episode that might play during supper. Until it starts causing indigestion.

Oh, by the way, I do know the significance of the “button.” It is an analogue of real life. ABC is the Dharma Initiative. And they want to see how pointless they can make the show until the viewers stop pressing their own buttons on the remote to tune in.

Haakaa Paallee

Before I ever saw an episode, I could tell that “Lost” sucks. This is apparent from the appearence of the actors alone. They look like they were chosen from the bulletin board of a modelling agency. Once I saw an episode, a recent one where Eko dies, what I suspected was true. The cast’s ability to act was in inverse proportion to their physical attractiveness, (a similar phenonmenon to what happens in real life with intelligence/strength of character and beauty).

I am not sure if anyone pointed this out, but lost seems to owe more to the old show “The Prisoner” than to “X Files”.

There are countless other problems with “Lost”, these are, however, problems with the television shows generally. At the end of the day, “Lost” is just a hook to get you to watch its television commercials.

VP

Some years ago a new SciFi show came on that I could NOT get enough of. It was the first show in years that I just HAD to watch. There was a whole mystery around this race of aliens that mankind came accross and couldn’t seem to communicate with… Well anyway, for all kinds of pissy poor reasons, the show made it one season, then got dropped and the writers just went on to “other things” that we were supposed to then watch, even though they couldnt’ be bothered to answer the original shows questions.

Thats why i just can’t watch Lost anymore. Its become clear thats whats going to happen. They will string the viewers along, asking 3 questions, answering 1, sometimes 2. Hopeing the viewer will forget the unanswered questions, while “promising” to wrap it all up in the end and laughing at the fans all the way to the bank.

This is the crappiest web site ive erver seen. LOST is the best show ever. You made some points but really its just stupid. You need to get out more. Honestly who spends their time thinking about why a TV show sucks? Fuck all of this. I Luv Lost and nuthin NEone says will make me change my mind. ( even a fucked up website)

lost is the best written show out there, hands down. ppl complain how bad it is because they either never watched more than 1 episode or have never watched an episode in their life and just read what other crazy ppl say

I originally would have agreed with your assesment of this show. But after you get past the obvious improbability of it all, it really is a quite interesting show. Of course there will be episodes were nothing happens, there called set-up episodes, adjusting the plot so something can happen…yes i said it…things do happen in the show whether you see them or not….of course there going to get nowhere essentially…if they got anywhere the show would end….what show does really get anywhere in a single episode….the whole series is in essence a set up for the final episode. But it’s interesting none the less. If you require such immediate gratification for your time spent viewing you should abandon the idea of t.v all togethor and only watch movies. As for the whole Dharma Initiative, yes it is quite outlandish, but what part of this show isn’t. For god’s sake the idea that so many would survive a plane crash is outlandish in itself, even more that they would be able to live on a island for more than a week without completely dieing out.

i rather the questions not be answred, keep sit more mysterious. this truly is the best story created my man, how is it possible…

I LIKE BIG FAT PENIS!

LooL what a great blog! I have to say I was happy with the first season in the beginning when the show seemed like how a group of people will survive… but then with the hatch and the button and the storage room full of food like its a f**kin department store, I felt I gave up!

OK, watched the 1st season in nearly one go, and now in the middle of the second season. First of all, it is now very obvious to me that the whole season is going to go on like this. But, seeing that season 1 is about one thing, and season 2 is about another; I am pretty much convinced that the seasons are thought out as a whole before it was all filmed. I cannot agree that the writers manipulate the story according to the reaction of the audience; or at least in the way you think they do. If they did, they would pretty much be “lost” already. There is a consistent skeleton to the story, but I feel that we are getting a lot of “dressings” every here and there.

I just feel that this is a very looong story, although not a very deep one. It is true there are overwhelmingly too many question thrown; but I somehow feel that they can wrap them up. I’ve have seen some crappiest wrap-ups in some movies; even the most ridiculous plots were wrapped up amazingly (remember Fight Club?). In a movie, the writer has around 30 minutes to do this; but Lost writers can use the whole season for this. In fact, a story is a story, you do not need to find the answers to your questions. If you ever watched a David Lynch movie, you would understand what I mean. Lynch nearly always finishes his movies where a typical Hollywood blockbuster starts wrapping up; and you would be “WTF, what now?” But not (trying to) giving away the answers does not diminish the artistic quality at the least, in my opinion.

And in lost, I find this very artistic quality. You MUST agree that, every episode is artistically like a movie. Every guy replying this blog seems to have an obsession to the “plot”; but plot is only one side of the coin. It is about how you “feel” while you are watching. I feel like anything can happen anytime, and I like that.

I feel like, there may be something more to the plot than meets the eye, and I like that, even if it turns out that there isn’t. I like the different directors’ views; I like different setups, like the dusty Nigerian streets or the Korean fishermen. I don’t have any idea what I’m going to see in the next episode, or who will die; and I definitely like that.

There are many hooks set in Lost, different for different people. Every one of us, the audience get caught by one hook; for some, it is the mysterious plot, the Dharma Innitiative, for some it is Kate’s (or Sawyer’s) beauty, for some it is the Survivor spirit, reality show feeling. Whatever it is let’s admit that we are all hooked; all for different reasons.

E luogo piacevole, devo dire! Buona fortuna a voi:)

Buona fortuna con il vostro luogo. E abbastanza nice=)

What the hell is your problem?! Lost is a brilliant show. No one ever asked if YOU like it so leave every 1 alone who does. We have needed something like this to come out for ages instead of soap after soap and reality shows. Its new fun and fresh. I give lost 10/10 it always leaves you wanting more!

Thank you for the great article. I just can not tolerate “lost” any more. It really sucks!

Guys, it’s true, the story seems to go downhill. But..there’s a but. Some days ago I was trying to refrain my girlfriend to whatch this damn show…she wanted to stay home so badly that I couldn’t do anything to change her mind..but at least I got my revenge: we agreed that everytime she enjoies LOST I’m entitle to ‘enjoy’ her lovely ass right after that:-) THANK YOU, LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey i have a question………………….

if you hate the show so much why are you still watching it… you made up a website to prove how much a show sucks… ur not going to stop the show…

im not being rude or yelling but it just doesnt make ANY sense… stop watching the show if you dont like it

lol. common sense

Wow, people are still posting to a blog entry from the start of this, like, a year ago?

Whatever, my opinon is that LOST is a great show , or was, it seems to be going downhill.

Season 1 was amazing stuff, it had it’s reality of people trying to survive on this island, the drama of their past lives, and they mystery of what the f**k was going on? It had it’s moments that just stick with you.

Seson 2 was really good, but a bit duller than season 1. It kept you interested, and you were still wondering what was going on. I liked Desmond, “Henry Gale”, and Eko. All of the other new characters I could have done without, but they didnt bother me. The middle episodes of the season were so dull though, in those cases… nothing happened… so we waited…. and waited. Yes, they redeemed themselves right at the end, they had to kill 2 people and make another a bad guy, but they did it and pulled it off, the last episodes left us all in awe and anticipation.

Season 3 … well…. sucks. The storytelling is now being pulled off effortlessly, the whole “The others are normal people living in a community” thing is dumb. The “monster”’s role has been turned from the representation of terror it was into a pillar of smoke that can kill of a character when they dont want them anymore. Oh, thats another thing, they half-assed Eko’s death. I liked him, and he didnt need to die. When Boon and Shannon and even Lizzy and Ana all died, there was a reason, you knew it had to happen, it was right, and they made a big deal about it, with Eko they give you a min long scene and a weak remark by Locke (who went from my fav character to near my last in seasons 2 and 3). Season 3 is dumb, boring, and hell… just…. stop!

Yeah, I’ll keep watching it, for the same reason a couple stays together after a 6 year marrage has gone sour…. the sex. I’m kidding, I am interested to see how far it goes, adn how they end it, even if I have “LOST” my love for it.
I agree the title should be changed to “Crashed” lol, they mystery is gone and replaced with dull plots that they seem to be pulling out of thn air.

wow, i just wasted 20 minutes reading all the entries, oh yea and LOST SUCKS!

All valid points, but you forgot one that is increasingly becoming more obvious to the point of contributing to ruining the show:

11. Too many good-looking people. I understand this is television, but unless you work in a modeling agency, you’ll never see that many good-looking people running around. It’s stretching believability. In the beginning, it was okay, but lately they just keep adding more and more good-looking people, none of whom have beards I might add.

Hahaha! Oh, Mr. WhyLostSucks Man, you’re spot-on. I cottoned on to the suckiness of Lost early, too. It took me about 4 episodes. I’d watch the ads at the end of an episode, telling us that something exciting would happen in the next one. It didn’t. This happened 3 times. It was like reading a Baby-Sitters Club or Nancy Drew book. You think something sinister is going on but it’s all very innocent/dull.

My boyfriend watches Lost. Well, he did. Heh. But I kept talking during it and taking the piss. He was a bit annoyed but when we got to the end of the last series he felt the same as I do.

They started playing re-runs and the ads for the re-runs had the voiceover guy saying, in a deep, threatening voice (I’ll try not to piss myself laughing as I type this) ‘What’s better than watching Lost the first time? Watching it again.’ Eh, how about NOT watching it ever again? Mmmm, I like the sound of that. Sometimes I watch things to take the piss out of them. But not Lost. There’s always something better on. ALWAYS.

I adding my voice to why lost is crap..

Season 1 = Good
Season 2 = Good to Fair
Season 3 = Crap

Why did season 3 fall in the ratings? Because secretly we all now know that no man or woman, or TV network can realistically tie up all those loose ends and add a super WOW factor finale. We realised we were being taken for a ride, it was good while it lasted, but by season 3 our minds had adjusted, and the ride got frustrating, because we wanted to get on with other things in our lives, and the ride wasn’t ending.

You forgot to mention the crap CGI and the animal puppets!

Its the smartest thing I’ve read about Lost. I hate it too.

You forgot to say that it steals the mythology scheme of the x files and other shows.

What is the point of watching a proggram that you already know the ending of? In reallity they will either all die or be rescued. realistically they cant live from the land cos their a bunch of westernised americans who most likely never have had to plant or kill to survive. thus will not have the knowledge. I’am sure that they “borrowed” the shaky camerra technique from startrek TNG(The Next Generation). I admit I’am abit of a trekkie but why cant TV producers actually realise that if you make a good big budget program like startrek TNG or DS9 then you might see a much bigger return ($$$$$$££££££) ? I once read a report that during TNG upto 1/3 of the worlds population were watching it and halfway through TNG it grossed over half a billion dollars and well over a billion at the end. Space, a righter’s frontier, please bring the voyages of a brand new startrek. lol

lost is the best written thing by mankind.

lost is enlightening

lost is PERFECT

I could really spend a while writing down a few dozen reasons as to why lost is an excellent tv show but then I would be coming close to bieng as pathetic as you are, and that simply cant be done.

I mean you claim you hate the show yet your life apparently fails so hard that you fork out cash for a website and waste plenty of time making it and watching the episodes.

Quite simply you need to go out get yourself some friends and/or something to do like perhaps listen to some emo music and go to work on your wrists with a stanley knife.
I think I will try to briefly answer your 10 reasons.

1- Well apparently quite a lot happens seeing as there are around what 40? hours of episodes so far(Sorry for not bieng precise but I have better things to than count the minutes) and several maybe even dozens of millions of people watch the program. This is a long program made to give entertainment for a long time. Of course it would great to find out all the answers but what then? Youve got 40minutes of entertainment…. great. Superb story that would be.
2- Shaky camera work? I can’t say I noticed it or cared for that matter perhaps your simply taking a bit 2 much acid?
3- The staring factor. What the fuck? I believe its called conversation, a lot of conversation takes place in most tv shows but then im sure you would prefer everyone stares at the ground and shuffles thier feet. I guess it would fit in with the type of person that you are^^
4- Three episodes then reruns for a month? They released a few earlier so that Lost junkies such as yourself could get a quick fix while thier cold turkey kicked off.
5- The flashbacks are for both character and story development.
6- A deserted island? Nobody said it was deserted that is you assuming again.
I might have written down the rest but im actually quite bored now so im going to leave it at that.

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LOVED the first season. couldn’t get enough

enjoyed the second season but started getting annoyed. arcs that go nowhere and dragging, draggin draggin of plot

This third season is pissing me off. Previews set up the next with “Mysteries will be solved” or “You’ll miss what everyone is talking about”. Hurley found a bus. OMG. My water cooler was abuzz with … uh…. nothing! Yeah, you have an other who knows things in your presence, and you don’t ask him ANY questions? How stupid are you?

This year I have not seen one episode that blew me away. First season just about every episode had me hooked. I haven’t stopped watching but it’s getting that bad. Jumping the shark in less than 3 seasons. impressive.

I think the defenders of Lost on this site are defending it with shaky logic, and “hey, look over there!” tactics.

“Why would you watch a show you hate?” Um…because we didn’t always hate it. Nobody is logging on here to say “you know what, I’ve only seen the first two episodes, and it sucks!” No. Everyone is saying how faithfully they have stuck to a show they thought was amazing for two seasons (benefit of the doubt here), and that they *now* feel insulted by what crap it’s become. People “bother” to react to things like that because they don’t want their favourite shows to suck so badly.

“Lost is deep/brilliant/amazing/perfect, etc.” Lots of hyperbole being spread around, but none of you rabid fans can bring up ANY reasons to back up these claims. Those of us who are saddened and disappointed by the show’s decline can point out exactly why we no longer like it, but nobody trying to defend it has pointed out any reasons to keep watching it.

“It’s better than the reality crap on TV.” You know what’s better than watching any bad show? Turning off your television when there’s nothing on. Reading a book. Talking to friends. Writing an email. Watching a DVD of a great TV show. Riding your bike. There are so many better things to do than watching television shows that are crappy, I can’t believe that anyone would even use this as a defense.

For me personally, the defenders on this site have just made clear to me the extent to which Lost is *not* a “smart” show anymore. It’s coasting on the loyalty of fans who refuse to analyze it with any sort of critical eye (which doesn’t mean criticizing, by the way – it means asking “why”, and evaluating the responses you get to “why”). The last line of the second last episode I saw was the final nail in the coffin for me: “There’s a girl with the Others…she’s about 16 years old…we think she may be your daughter.” Did nobody else barf their guts out right then? We alllll figured out that Alex was Rousseau’s daughter a long time ago. Why did Kate have to spell it out for the audience? AND why bother to spell that out when there are so many other mysteries to shed light on? We don’t need the resolutions of any of these mysteries spelled out for us, but we do need at least the slightest hint, just sometimes, that even one of the mysteries dangling in front of us just might get solved. They can solve them in subtle ways that leave more questions remaining. They can then use those questions to broaden the plot.

But they CANNOT just dump new characters, completely new plot threads, and clunky dialogue onto our laps week after week and keep anyone with half a brain convinced of the show’s “brilliance” for much longer.

Most, if not all, of these points are completely unfounded.

1. Nothing happens? What an overstatement. How is encountering The Others anything like the hatch situation or any of the previous events that’ve already happened? I can’t believe you could actually say we haven’t learned anything at all, or suggesting that something would only happen if major questions were fully answered. Even some of the side stories, like Desmond’s last episode, are very enjoyable and well done. I suggest watching that episode, Flashes Before Your Eyes, and if it doesn’t prove that Lost can still be compelling, I’d be very surprised.

2. Slightly shaky camera movement is well established technique in most movies and TV. It’s also meant to make one’s perspective of the scene feel similar to the actor’s. Anyway, there’s no sense in criticizing something that, one, nobody criticizes very much in TV and, two, that everyone already accepts as a common technique.

3. If the casual viewer can so easily miss this, I doubt you should even have it in your list. How long do they look, for a second? That’d be a lot of staring to add up to 17 minutes. If you’re referring to when someone looks at something and we watch their expression change, obviously that’s not uncalled for.

4. Wow, this needs an update. I bet you’re still not appeased. 24 is the only drama I know of that films its entire season all at once. I’m sure a lot of other fans would be pissed at the extremely long season breaks. Fans don’t seem to be good at adjusting to new breaks, as we’ve seen with season 3. And you just can’t have an entire show compressed one right after another. And was one month break schedules anything like how Lost used to work? Again, nice exaggeration. Way to support your criticism with fair points.

5. You’ve got another exaggeration. You could actually flip that around and you’d be more correct. Let’s see, to answer your question, of the fifteen plus character’s flashbacks we’ve seen, four people. Woah. Death is a common part of drama. Second, flashbacks are only there to compliment what they’re going through on the island so in that light, they’re actually quite significant. And often they can be interesting to see people’s lives before such a big situation, and in many instances their used to illuminate the characters a lot more concerning how they think.

6. Obviously you haven’t caught on to the fact that the island is meant to be strange. It’s been said that The Others have been there for more than 50 years. Given 50 years of activity over an area in the Pacific Ocean, I don’t think it’s impossible to accept that at least four or five people have gotten trapped in the island’s field. Except for you’re inability to suspend your disbelief and see the show as something more than realistic, you have no reason to not believe it.

7. Well, Dharma is an organization. Organizations are big and from what we know, it certainly seems like they expected very important things with it. It seems only reasonable that they’d present themselves to appear important. And calling Dharma a rip off of an idea from another TV is like calling the first season a rip off of Robinson Crusoe. A rip off isn’t a rip off if it creates something completely new out of it. And it especially doesn’t take away from any creativity they have in creating the idea, since having a similar idea doesn’t mean everything else isn’t new, now does it.
8. Since episode one, they’ve made it clear that there’s a distinction between the beach and the forest. This is proven by the fact that the monster has never even come close to the beach. Also, and most importantly, 40 plus people would never fit inside the hatch.

9. The improbability of surviving has been brought up on the show. You’re SUPPOSED to find it unbelievable, again, because this isn’t a normal island.

10. I’ll go against your lack of supporting your last point by continuing to support mine. Although it’s not entirely original and wasn’t used to its fullest, I thought the idea was an interesting addition to the story progression. It was mostly a background addition that threaded through the episodes. But it especially paid off in the season finale because I was never entirely sure what to believe.

Your criticism is definitely overly harsh. If you’re going to make a point, you should at least be objective and not just throw out half-assed attempts of criticism.
I certainly think Lost has its faults. And Lost’s previews certainly are overhyped most of the time. That’s the advertising’s fault, not the show’s.

But major problems like the ones you suggest aren’t them. I actually don’t think its faults are major enough to completely hate the show either so I doubt you can come up with 10 worthwhile criticisms anyway. Your arguments seem to be nothing more than irritation, instead of fair criticism. They’re largely generalization and falsities. If you wanted to actually criticize Lost, you should’ve made some stronger points, points that would’ve proved something useful to your argument, such as something that actually describes a serious imperfection concerning significant part of the show. Based on other people’s posts elsewhere, most of the people don’t even actually seem to agree with half of what you’ve written anyway. I hope you can at least take my point into consideration and realize that maybe there’s nothing truly seriously wrong with Lost and you’re just really irritated.

Lost is actually quite good, alongside Prison Break in its sprawling but suspenseful conspiracy mythology, with strong character development, and enough mystery to keep things interesting if not all consuming for fans.

I must admit I avoided it for a long time since I thought it was a just souped-up Survivor with pretty people, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a well-made show with good story continuity, and compelling characters. The Dharma Initiative intrigue is intriguing enough to keep viewers going, and they haven’t yet encountered the X-Files conundrum of ad-hoc and ever more complex conspiracy making.

Someone here mentioned Battlestar Galactica which is much weaker and it falling apart much faster as a show. The characters are much more stereotypical cardboard cut outs, the central mythology much more threadbare, and there are way too many pointless genre cliches filler episodes. In fact, if I had time I would make whyBSGsucks.com blog, but I would do so with a heavy heart for what could have been a much stronger show.

In the case of Lost, the character development is frankly incredible. Very few shows really do grow on you and Lost is one of them.

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I think this site sucks.There’s always something that sucks, Lost its great, but in some occasions it sucks, also Hollywood sometimes suck, but for you guys IM SURE THAT YOU SUCK!!!Sorry

What’s funny to me is that…people say those running this site and posting comments(the ones that watch the show but REALIZE, intelligently that it was a phenomenal show that has become a toy for the producers to torture) have no lives, when in fact they are avid “lost lovers” and the come to a site that states “lost sucks.”
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Lost is as commrcial as every tv shows, the only thing that producers care about is to gain money. Lucky for us, it’s free, unless you buy some merchadising shit.

Lost rules Enough said.

DONT EVEN TALK BOUT LOST THAT WAY!!! U HAVE NO IDEA WUT UR TALKING ABOUT!! UR A IDIOT AND SHOULD GO STRAIGHT TO HELL FOR EVEN THINKING THAT!!

You raise some very good points, but i personally believe that you do go a bit ott on your reasons, i personally have watched all episodes up to date, and i admit, not every episode was what it should have been, especially with a whole season being devoted to opening one damn hatch. But i will be the first to admit that the quality of the episodes is improving, as i watch it for enjoyment, not to be mentally stimulated, christ if i wanted to mentally stimulated i would go to my lectures :S truth be told, shows like lost are there for entertaintment, not to change thinking, even if the producers and writers think so, they are there for us to watch for 45 minutes a week so that we can escape reality, try to forget our life problems and relax, nothing more, so thats why i dont personally look to deep into it, as i really dont care, i watch it for the mystery factor and am interested in seeing how each character may have been previously involved with each other etc. and to bring up your point on the whole crash i agree, no one would have really survived a crash like that, fulls stop, but i see it as thats what they wanted to illustrate, that if they would have crashed anywhere else but this island then they would not have survived. Plus the ‘Others’ being there, fuels the idea that they are researching the island, so hene the interest in its mystery, so thats why i enjoy the show, its 45 minutes of ficticious mystery, i get my other interests from other shows, such as action in Prison Break or comedy in South Park, its just that lost fits in its own nice genre, and for that i respect it enough to watch it, but i had fun reading this site, keep up the good work! Both sides of the arguement must be heard

loyal lost fans, dont let these negative ppl make you mad. some ppl are just negative, with negative thoughts. we know lost is the best written thing out there, and mysteries are almost as great as the mystery of life itself. let them bathe in their misery of hating lost, and for some reason continue watching every episode.

everybody who thinks lost is the best show on tv are right , cause it is, ppl who say it confusing are stupid. Lost is A STORY, so it’s not always the same (tht’s why maybe not every episode is as good) unlike almost every fucking tv show, like police shows, always about solving a case every stinking episode, medical show, about curing some guy thats about to die. Lost is the best show ever. it’s unique,

My love to lost, the cast, the producers, writters everybody and of course all the fans

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A definite reason on this list needs to be that you always know something bad is about to happen because it starts raining

L O S T is the bomb!

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plz plz plz plz
tell men why didnt the others get of the island
and tell me what is the dharma and i find 2 things weird that clair is jacks half sister and that locks father killed sawyers parent they are trying to connect the survivors together with any way
that sucks waiting 4 answers

Dude. Your site sucks. Delete it. People have their likes and dislikes, but you’re going a bit too far… Also, someone who hates a show and creates new messages on a blog about how he hates it every darn-week… Well, that doesn’t quite sound like someone who hates it to me… You like Lost, but you’re in a denial. You’re even more obsessive with it than me, all-time Lost fan. You say you have a life and you miss some shows because of that. There are at least 2 things in that sentence that prove the opposite. First: You have a life: then why waste your time on a blog about a show you think sucks? Second: You miss some shows. Why, in God’s name, I ask you, why do you… waste your pitifull little life watching the show you hate, and then another… 5 hours on this stupid cunt-blog…? Either your brains are the size of wallnuts, or you truly have no life at all. In this case, I pitty you. I suggest you watch the show from the beginning and you’ll change your oppinion. I’m sure of that. So, pick up a life and delete this blog.
‘Nuff said.

ohh man this list is so funny! number one is my definite pet peeve. we are watching all 3 seasons of Lost now. we have no commercials, no waiting for a week to watch the next show & it still drives me nuts! i never would have made it if i were watching it on tv. so anyways. i basically watch out of curiosity and end up making fun of each episode. i have now resorted to looking up the summary of the show online because i can’t stand sitting through 45 minutes to find out 30 seconds of ‘new information’. i wouldn’t say lost sucks… it just kind of stinks. i’d love to see a parody of the show where the entire first three seasons are summed up in 5 minutes. cause it could happen. boom. and as for the staring thing, that is so funny! that was all the french chick ever did, only she did it with her mouth hanging open. boo yah.

ohh man this list is so funny! number one is my definite pet peeve. we are watching all 3 seasons of Lost now. we have no commercials, no waiting for a week to watch the next show & it still drives me nuts! i never would have made it if i were watching it on tv. so anyways. i basically watch out of curiosity and end up making fun of each episode. i have now resorted to looking up the summary of the show online because i can’t stand sitting through 45 minutes to find out 30 seconds of ‘new information’. i wouldn’t say lost sucks… it just kind of stinks. i’d love to see a parody of the show where the entire first three seasons are summed up in 5 minutes. cause it could happen. boom. and as for the staring thing, that is so funny! that was all the french chick ever did, only she did it with her mouth hanging open. boo yah.

LOST IS CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP. I READ WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE SAY LOST IS CRAP CRAP CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP.

why are u all saying losts sucks when theyv’e got so much more money and a better job than u.
And why do u say u hate lost yet u still watch it.
I reckon lost is the bomb.
And if u waste ur life saying how bad it is then go have a cry.
and i rest my case.

You are really wasting your time doing this web site LOST is the BEST show ever, and if u can’t figure out what’s going on, then your brain is too limited to think about it…. so Stop watching the show!!! I think you can’t stop watching it because everytime you tell yourself that you won’t watch today u keep watching it that’s because LOST attracts u and makes u hungry for more…
In my opinion you are a big idiote for saying Lost sucks

Lost is a deep show that has its moments but, yeah, it mostly repeats the same dumb plots. Every TV show has its glitches though. The shay camera thing annoys me, and EVERY DAMN SEASON FINALE the same thing happens. They should have ditched the flashbacks a while ago. This show has progressed and let’s hope it will improve. Or, even better, get CANCELLED!

LOST IS THE BEST FRIGGIN SHOW EVER! I WATCH IT FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT! YOU TRY WRITING A DAMNED DRAMA SHOW! ALL YOUR POINTS ARE STUPID! THE SUSPENCE KEEPS ME AND THE OTHER FANS WATCHING? THE SEASONS KEEP GETTING BETTER! AND DAMNIT, THE WRITERS HAVE IT ALL PLANNED OUT AND THE NEXT THREE SEASONS ARE GONNA BE AWESOME SHIT MAN! SO DON’T DISS LOST, YOU’RE THE IDIOTS THAT CAN’T SEE THE DEEP THOUGHT IN IT! THE FLASHBACKS ARE AWESOME AND NOT POINTLESS! CHARACTERS DIE ALL THE TIME BUT ALSO COME BAC CUZ THE ISLAND HEALS PEOPLE! IF THERE WAS NO MYSTERY NO ONE WOULD WATCH! LOST IS FUCING AWESOME yo

shut up. you’re all saying that. Lost sucks.

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LOST season one was good…. at about halfway thorugh season 2, i just left…. i mean it started out as a cool stranded stroy then SHADOW MONSTERS come and eat echo…. and then the shadow person comes and keeps eatting people…. there are also way to many filler episodes in which nothing happens, i mean they make it look like a question will be nswered and nothing really is…. and now new people appearing, i mean the “island” is becoming mor elike a club med then a stranded island. the original idea of a gorup of people being stranded has bee streched over 3 seasons!!!!!!! yawn yawn yawn…. i tried watching another episode and i saw locke kill a polar bear…. and then i just laughed and turned off my t.v. how can a old man kill a polar bear….

LOST IS FRIGGIN AWESOME DUDES! DON”T HATE ON IT! ANYONE WHO HATES LOST IS A DUMB UNCARING PERSON WITHOUT PATIENCE!

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Hey Tyler, glad to see you’re spending a lot of time watching and analyzing the show…I mean it seems like you watch it a lot for someone who really hates it enough to make a cheap website about it. So you must lead a really boring life to be on your computer all day and still do nothing but complain. We agree with Jessica…you must not be very intelligent if you think the show is pointless. If you were smart enough to understand the show, you would know that your entire list is a bloody trainwreck. So, see ya in anotha life, fucka!
Cheers!

P.S.
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Lost is a very good show! You think lost is the only show that leaves story lines untied. Lets take a look at another hit show called sopranos. Ever seen it? They had loose ends untied the entire 6 seasons. They never did finish them, including the entire series finale! Lost often will tie up loose ends 10 episodes later or even longer. They still have plenty of time to tie up any loose ends they may have left. Not to mention lost has given me suspense and entertainment that sopranos couldn’t dream of.

KISS MY ASS! LOST IS THE BEST DAMNED SHOW BESIDES PRISON BREAK, 24, HEROES and SHUGARY GRAMMAW. by the wat ;( D:

gay shit fucking russian. It’s people like you that provoke Satan to cast down his minions and torture us with sucky shows like ‘24′, ‘Lost’, ‘Prison Break’ or ‘Heroes’. He also lets niggers roam the world and he also lets wars happen. God tries to stop him, but Satan gets more powerful every damned minute. This is because children are starting to worship him (encouraged by MySpace, violent video games and parents that don’t force their kids to believe in Christianity and even worse, children sometimes go insane after seeing disgusting CHINESE PEOPLE in the FUCKING VOTING BOOTHS! I was in a voting booth once (I obviously voted for George W. Bush, who is a Christian, and that’s all I or anyone needs to know) and I saw a white woman and a black man kiss. I then saw a little helpless boy (he looked terrified at this!) looking at them. Shocked, I went right up to them and demanded they stop and that black people was what God was against. It turned out they were both (gasp!) Atheists (or however you spell it, I don’t really give a shit). In case you don’t know, Atheists are horrible people who dislike that God wants good for people and go into denial, which makes them mentally retarded. They then burn down houses and sometimes kill white Christian people. Most of these people are black, chinese, japanese, mexican or german (or some other horrible color besides white). Anyway, back at the voting booths, I slapped that god-forsaken woman right across her little pathetic face. “Hey bitch, get off’a her!” her black husband (or boyfriend? That would be horrible, since God forbids people to kiss before they are married and wed by The O’Mighty O’Lord himself) grabbed my arm (HE ACTUALLY TOUCHED ME! EWWWWWWW!!!!) and told me to go away with anger in his voice. Why the fuck is this nigger angry? After all, HE’s the one in OUR (the white Christians’) voting booth and OUR world. He then let go of my arm. And then I punched him in the face. “Bring it on, bitch!” he said. Such language! How can people be submitted to this?! Typical nigger. So you know what I did? I screamed and screamed. And told everyone to kill the nigger. Then a black security man came up to me and by now I was FUCKING PISSED OFF AT THESE GOD-FUCKING NIGGERS!!!! I should probably get back to my other story know… so………….) and, anyway, as I was saying, children are worshiping (whore-shipping) Satan because of this by doing horrible things such as – okay, I’ll have to trail off again with another story. A story about wedgies (I bet niggers invented them!!!! Seriously!!!!). Anyway, I once saw a middle school named ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School’. They named schools after black people! Holy shit! Another work of Satan (that bastard!!!!) So anyway, I drove my car up the drive-way to talk about this, and I saw boys in soccer clothes. There were two white boys talking. Then, one of them (’Jack’ I think his name was) turned around and started to walk away. The other boy (’Ron’ or whatever or somethin’, I don’t give a fuckin’ shit) then ran after him, reached down his pants and pulled up his boxers, which were blue and very sexy. The boy yelped in pain, but anyway I went into the school, complained and got a restricting order (the judge had the slightest French accent!!!!). Anyway, I watched the first three seasons of 24 and they were awful!!!! No family values, no children who were main characters except that slutty bitch Jill (Jack and Hary’s (or Teri’s) daughter) and the word ‘Christianity’ wasn’t mentioned once! I’ve never heard any character pray at least once, except terrorist Syed Ali (who is black/muslim, at least they have the decency to portray blacks and muslims as evil terrorists!!!!) who was evil. In Season 2, his daughter Jill/Kim/Erin/Whore-Bitch-Faggot-Dumbass kidnapped a girl, Megan Matheson, away from her father, Gary Matheson, after he killed his wife and Megan’s mother, Carla Matheson (nee Adair) and who also abused Megan. She was still wrong to do this, as it was Gary’s right to treat his daughter any way he found sufficient. Oh, but that’s not the worst part. The worst part is former U.S.A. PRESIDENT DAVID PALMER, who IS BLACK! HE WAS PRESIDENT FOR TWO SEASONS UNTIL HE STEPPED DOWN THANK GOD and realized he was black and didn’t have any place in anywhere thank you very much kind sirs.

Lost sucks balls. It’s about people who get caught, suffer, tortured, escape..

Rince and repeat…

And how the hell do the chicks have nicely shaved legs/armpits after beeing on a island so long. BOOOOOO unrealistic.

shut up you daft! what does “so long” means to you? YEARS???? theyve been in the isalnd for less than 4 months so they still have things they need plus the hatch!

hey tyler! can i ask you somethin? and all of the people here who hate lost. what are the current tv shows you are watching right now?

Couple of months would be enough for the people to look a lot more scruffy and f…ed up. Anyway I found lost cool at the beginning but my main problem is if you miss just a few episodes because you have something better to do then you more or less lose track of the story.

Personaly I like Dr. House, SG Atlantis, Scrubs, Monk and Psych.

I’d like to know how the storywriters wan’t to give that whole dharma crap and the black cloud thing an explenation… Looks like they just pulled that stuff out of their ass.

I’ve got to agree i drank the lost kool-aid for 3 seasons and was about to pour myself another cup but thanks to ABC’s horrible marketing ploy of starting a season at the half way point of a normal television season I’ve started to realize the BS i went through just to know I have another 2 seasons of BS left before I get any answers to which I’ve already justified will likely be BS and dissapointing.

Im a dumbfuck bitch.

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agreed. DHARMA was created to make the show more interesting. Lets see, people stranded on an island. Finding food. Having relationship issues. That’s SOOOOOOOO interesting, NOT

I tried so hard to watch Lost, but in the end it irritated me so much I just had to switch off.

No episode of Lost is complete without Evangeline Lilly shouting “Jack!” “Jack!” at least once …

She seriously does my head in. She has ONE LOOK and one look only. I get the feeling that she is getting paid PER FROWN, and have you seen how PERFECT her hair is in the opening episode of Season 4? What a JOKE.

Have you also noticed that we never get to see her legs? Having seen a few photos of her on the beach I can understand why. She has a nice top half, but below the waste it seems that someone was having a joke when they stuck a fat arse, legs and clown feet on her.

Also, on the island have you noticed how no one really communicates with anyone else? If society conducted themselves like they did everyone would be sectioned.

In the real world had this occurred they would know each other like old friends by now. They are still acting like relative strangers. Being away from their friends and family they would have been ‘forced’ to open up to each other and to have formed close and even intense relationships with one another.

Lost bores me to tears. I like good shows, I like long running shows, but Lost feels so pretentious, drawn out and boring for the sake of being pretentious, drawn out and boring. Hour long episodes that feel like a total waste of my time and I felt cheated for having those precious minutes stolen from me. Season 1 was alright but once Season 2 made it clear nothing was going on I gave up.

The characters don’t even resemble real human beings I can relate to on any level, half of whom I feel like slapping everytime they open their mouths (most of them) or look like they’re about to cry or (in Sawyers case) scowl-with-furrowed-eyebrows. The only one I like is Hurley, sort of.

If Smallville can make me relate and sympathise to a Godlike being from another planet then I’m sure the writers of Lost can make me give a damn about these people, but I don’t.

I just pray for a tidal wave episode.

If these haven’t been mentioned yet (I’m new to this awesome site), I’d like to add a couple:

1. The overuse of music swells and reverb soaked drum beats at moments that have little significance or thrill value (usually right before a commercial break).

2. The casting of hot chicks as villains. If you want us to be intimidated, get scary looking actors who have zero background in modeling. Somebody needs to lay off the bj’s on the casting couch.

You may have one or two valid reasons, but most of ths list is pretty dumb.

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I SO agree with you, Tyler. That damn show gets way too much credit, even when the storylines are dragging on like dead horses(remember the creepy SMOKE monsters? pathetic). Oh, and before you Lost fangirls/guys jump down my throat that I am immature/stupid/lacking in attention, you can all SHUT UP. Lost is no amazing mystery(because mysteries have something called CONTINUITY, plus they don’t get poked at like dying slugs-again, SMOKE MONSTER), nor a riveting drama (more like a soap- could’nt they have cast more rugged-looking people as actors? Come on, or else this show will fall under the “pretty people having problems category”). I can respect some Lost fans, but they currently making that endeavor tough to accomplish….I despise it when they glorify Lost as the best- it has quite a few more miles to go, seriously. On a shallower note, Matthew Fox is a cringe-worthy actor. Ugh.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add that most of the actors look like freaking ramp models for God’s sake! In almost every episode of season one, Kate’s hair looks PERFECT. Constantly. Plus, the people always look healthy when they’ve roughin’ it on the island for weeks! Did you notice that whenever an episode’s on, Jack always was a brand-new super clean shirt only to get dirty again by the end of the episode? The next episode, rinse and repeat, their clothes get clean then dirty, clean then dirty, ad infinitum, yet we don’t see a functional washing machine now do we?

This show needs to die. Period.

Oh, what small minds think about. This show obviously goes too far over your head. You can’t literally expect the entire series to be explained in what, two weeks? This show makes you think rather than just stare at your T.V mindlessly; I bet your a fan of “Everybody Loves Raymond”. If you don’t like the show, don’t watch the show. It’s that simple. If you were to watch the entire series up to what they have completed thus far, then your tiny mind would likely explode. I’m a teenage girl and this is one of the most interesting, thought-provoking things I have ever seen. Now why don’t you go eat a package a cookie dough and leave everyone who enjoys this show alone. Sound good?

You suck ffs..
What lame ass reasons to hate lost, those aint even real reasons. As you notice many people here disagree with you, and so do i. “Omg they shake the camera to make it more intense, that serie suck! They stare at eachother, damnit this sucks! They bring in new characters, that sucks to and now im going to stop watching it and create a blog to write alot of crap shit about Lost. Get a life

u know what. U SUCK. I DON’T EVEN WANNA REPLY TO U. U SUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

AHAHHAH

Sayid was walking through the jungle. Sayid Jarrah was an Iraqi man who had crashed landed on Fucked-Up Island. Sayid coughed. He was walking towards Charlie. He was gonna tortue the guy so maybe he would stop talking with his annoying as fuck english accent. So he stole Locke’s knife kit and shoved it down Charlie’s throat in his sleep. Claire, shocked, picked up a cereal box and wacked Sayid in the head. Sayid fell down, pretending to be dead, when Jack walked in saying “HELP ROSE IS GONNA DIE!” Who?” Claire asked. “Who cares?” Sayid screamed, grabbing a knife and shovin it up Claire’s vagina. “OHH THAT TICKLES!” Claire said, laughing joyously. Sayid then took another knife and killed Aaron. Claire looked relieved. “He was annoyin anywayz.” Charlie was mortified. Jack was too busy to care. He then woke everyone up screaming “ROSE IS GONNA DIE.” Rose had overdosed herself becuz she wanted to eat candy and her husband, a dentist, said if she did he would cut her eyes out. As Bernard ran in, Rose grabbed a handmade gun and shot him. Jack saw this and fainted. Desmond quickly grabbed the gun and shot Jack. Then Locke, seeing him, accused him of stealing his knives too and ran after him. Desmond ran into the jungle and found a railroad. A subway came roaring past just as he stepped into the middle of the track. “Why would a subway be aboveground….unless…..” Locke then realized the rapture was coming. Just then Danielle Rousseau, a french stripper who was born on the island, saw Locke and jumped him. They screwed off and then Hurley came, asking to join. They laughed. Hurley was then pissed so he ate them. Yummy. Humans tasted good. He wanted more. He NEEDED more. Sayid then attacked Hurley, trying to cut his ugly red eyes out when Hurley ate him – and the knife. It cut thru him and out his ass. Boone then ran to him. But how could that be? Boone was dead. Boone grinned evily. “I AM THE DEVIL” he roared and sent Hurley to Hell, which was in a place with no food. He found Rosie O’Donnell there 2, and they escaped back to the island. Hurley was going on a rage. He ate Charlie, Claire, and everyone else except Juliet and Kate. Kate was off masturbating in the jungle when The Others warned her of Hurley. Just then Hurley saw them and ate all The Others. Then Juliet lit his ass on fire and he burned to bits. Kate and Juliet were alone. All alone. Three weeks laterl, Kate noticed a talking polar bear was following her. He then revealed that polar bears now ruled the earth. Accusing him of lying, Kate cried and stormed away, screaming “JACK!” Juliet then fucked Kate, impregnating her (Juliet had a cock) and then Kate died. Juliet was all alone. She went to live with the polar bears. “UR TOO UGLY!” they said. Juliet ate them all and shitted them all out into the ocean, which made the ocean all shit. She then walked across it to the mainland, where she met Michael. They then both commited suicide. Oh and by the way, while this was going on, Sun and Jin had made a boat and were sailing out into the ocean. Then they drowned in Juliet’s shit.

Walt was walking thru the jungle innocently. Then he heard a noise; it was Hulkey-or Huley? whatever. The fatass. Anyway Hurley came out and ripped Walts clotehs out. Then he started eating his ballz and bit them off. Walt screamed. “U KNOW U LUV IT” Hurley said. And Walt did. He couldnt hide it anymore. Then Michael appeared. “HEY THATZ MY SON I GET 2 RAPE HIM FIRST!” Hurley suggested a three-some so then they all fucked together. Soon Vincent joined. Then Vincent bit Hurley and he was pissed so he ate him. Then MIchael called him a fatass and then he ate Michael and Walt too. Yummy. Humans. Meanwhile, Jack was fucking Sawyer when Kate walked in, shocked. She then told the whole the camp. So Jack and Sawyer ran into the jungle, where they found a french stripped. She jumped Sawyer, and Jack jealous, returned to teh beach and raped Boone’s body, unaware that Kate was filming it, planning to send it into “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” A TV washed ashore and all the survivors watched Jack fuckin Boone’s body. Jack then snuck into Kate’s tent and stuck his head in her vagina. Claire and Charlie then heard them. That meant Jack wasnt gay…so he was… kinda normal. Oh shit. Claire started running and shot herself. Charlie then fainted. Then Desmond dragged his bo0dy into the jungle where he met Hurley, who ate them. Once inside Hurleys stomach, Charlie and Desmond decided to fuck. Hurley then ate Sun, Ji, Aaron, Rose, Bernard and everyone else except Jack and Kate. Meanwhile, Sawyer had been fuckin the french stripper for a week when Jack and Kate met up with them. They then ran away from Hurley, who ate them. Once inside Hurleys stomach, they found Sayid and Juliet licking each others cocks. Hurley then shitted them all out, covering the ocean in shit. Hurley then walked across to mainland. Unknown to him, Locke was still on the island, waiting till 9:00. But it was already 9:23. WHERE THE FUCK WAS THE FRENCH STRIPPER? Ah well hed go find his boyfriend Ben Linus.

Lost has been a disappointment since Season 2. Season 1 was very interesting and kept its chain story line going, and actually brought some closure to the presented questions. Season 2 and have me so “lost” and confused that I have completely stopped watching. Please stop presenting like 20 plot lines in every episode and start answering some dang questions! People can only continue with unanswered questions for so long before they just stop caring. It’s like teasing a dog with a treat but never relinquishing it; after awhile, the dog will stop begging.

Fixing my error: “Season 2 had me so ‘lost’ and confused….”

“A heuristic is a method to help solve a problem, commonly informal. It is particularly used for a method that often rapidly leads to a solution that is usually reasonably close to the best possible answer. Heuristics are “rules of thumb”, educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense.

In more precise terms, heuristics stand for strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem-solving in human beings and machines.”(wikipedia)

That being said, “During the Lost Experience it was revealed that “DHARMA” is an acronym for Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications. “(wikipedia)

So the entire idea of the island in lost is to figure out how people solve problems using the means which they have on hand. It’s a social exercise. It’s a maze, the characters are the mice, and leaving is the cheese.

Now let’s extend this theory. Say it’s not just the island that’s the experiment, it’s the entire show and viewing audience (whether they like it or hate it…). Solving the problem of what the show is about, what is going on, and what it all means has become close to an obsession for some people. It is definitely a phenomenon to observe with great interest. The experiments of lost aren’t just on the show, they are a part of watching the show. People use heuristics(said rules of thumb, educated guesses, and intuitive judgments (I’ve seen very little common sense, however)) to solve the problem of what the island is, just as the characters in the show are doing from their own, more limited, perspective. For problem-lovers, it is an addiction beyond measure.

I find the whole thing fascinating. I can’t say I love the show, nor can I say that I hate it. I find it entertaining to watch, I enjoy the visuals and the characters, and the ideas, even if a lot of the science-fiction aspects are old news. I like watching how the characters solve the problems they are faced with, and I like to understand the reasons why each character solves them in a particular way. Mostly, though, I like watching people watch the show, trying to dissect it and make sense of the little hints dropped throughout the series. I like to hear their theories, and the reasoning behind them. I like to find out about why people love the show, hate the show, are frustrated with the show, whatever. The reactions are…amazing. You can see a lot of them here.

I’ve seen a lot of people write here that one of the failings of the show is that nothing really happens. That there are too many story lines and characters to tie up. That they will never be able to adequately end the show with few/no loose ends. So I humbly submit my little theory for your contemplation:

I hope that the entire show turns out to be an heuristics experiment by the dharma initiative. I hope that they tell us all at the end that the island was a set, and all of the characters were paid actors, put together in order to research the problem-solving methods of modern human-beings. A giant social experiment. I hope they end it that way.
It would be very funny.

I really cant believe that someone would actually create a website to show people that lost sucks. I dont think lost sucks I think u suck …….. I think you like watching shows like one tree hill and all that teenager crap.

Lost doesn’t suck. But I’ll tell you what does.

This website.

well they “lost” some audiences since they got pushed back to fridays. the problem is that they do not explain anything at all. they should just throw jack bower from 24 and kill everyone on the island. i sometimes think the writers takes all our our comments and try to create a story out of it. prob not mine since keith still in jail (i think). haha. anyways once they are off the island, there is no point to continue the show.

Lost isn’t the best show, but it is a great show and a lot people dedicate to make the show, so stop complain and if you don’t like show, go watch something else.

Lost is awesome show, and the guy who made site must be working for another network, to make the show bad. Probably wondering why they can only write shows that belong in trash.

I found this website because I wanted to see if this show was still attracting wide audiences. Apparently (and sadly) it still is. I think the reason for this is because there are more stupid people out there than intelligent ones. For example, the posts here that claim Lost sucks are written very well, but those that claim Lost is the greatestest show everzzzzz are written moronically. I laugh at the goober who says this is a thinking man’s show. No, a person who likes thinking, who cherishes the brain, will not give this crappy show more than a moment’s thought. Season 1 was promising. AFter that it was like let’s see how many morons can continue to watch us even after we don’t answer questions but come up with fifty new quesitons each show.

There was a time when I was intrigued by the four-toed statue. Now, I don’t give a shit because I know it was just a lame device. This show is like a book of short stories where the last page of each story has been ripped out.

I think that for season 52, they should introduce the “others others” a mysterious group of strange people that frighten even the “others.” The “others others” leader is a guy with a third arm that comes out of his head but later on we find out that it may not really be an arm but he glued a prosthetic arm there to seem menacing. Then we find out that he’s just an escaped patient from the Lost Island mental institution but this isn’t necessarily proved because it may have just been a flashback or a dream or it could just be caused by Hurley’s curse.

Midway through the season, Old Man Wilson, a 54 year old man who was only five years old when his plane crashed in the first season, gets up and yells: Dammit, I want to know what all those numbers that the fat guy was so scared of meant. How come the writers never explained what that was all about? Then Locke’s great grandchild tells him to shut up and stop rambling about nonsense.

The last episode will reveal that there was ANOTHER hatch below the first hatch and in this hatch is an half-Australian half-Mongolian speed skater who has to flush a toilet every sixty six seconds which is sure to cause problems with Salazar the Defrocked Priest (introduced in season 41) because of its satanic interpretation (66 seconds – get it?)

In the next season, it is revealed that flushing the toilet is what really caused the problems with the plane crashing because it had nothing to do with the button after all. It turns out that the toilet is linked to a device in the passing plane which was put there by the Groucho Marx look-alike (introduced in episode 15 and reintroduced in season 6019) because he thought it would be funny but we then later realize in a flashback that it wasn’t really Groucho Marx but just a coincidence or maybe there was not connection whatsoever with the toilet flushing and the plane.

Later on, we find out that everything that has happened in every single episode previously didn’t really happen because people are watching old seasons on DVD and finding a million inconsistencies. So it turns out that everything that has happened is just Hurley daydreaming while taking a dump in the plane’s bathroom. Seconds later, the plane crashes, but everyone on board dies.

It’s quite understandable why some people don’t like Lost. It’s also understandable why some people do like Lost. What I’m finding ridiculous about a lot of the responses is that people are using the supposed character/intelligence of the viewers to degrade the show. Not a very strong logical connection. Also, many are generalizing the audience according to who posts here, which does not make for a very strong argument against the show.

The vehemence with which many seem to degrade the show indicates not only a dislike of the show, but a dislike of the massive popularity it has achieved and its viewers. The issue of popularity seems rather tangential to the issue of quality.

I just realized how complicated the concept of “quality television” is.

The show’s popularity could indicate that it indeed is of decent quality, but it could also indicate that television viewers have been conditioned by corporations to like crap so that those very corporations can make money.

This is a rather simplistic argument concerning the factors that decide a show’s success as there are much more variables than a show’s “quality”. It can be argued that shows of high quality have been canceled in the past and this does not correlate with the hypothesis that quality television becomes popular.

That topic can be and will most likely be explored forever.

In my opinion, Lost is an excellent television show. Many of the reasons that Tyler lists to argue that Lost is a bad show make it a great show for me.

It really depends on personal opinion and the relative nature of ‘quality’. It seems that at this point in its run, the Lost appreciators seem to be the majority and I’m happy with that. Regardless of what that says about its viewers or the show, I’m just pleased that it will allow the show to conclude in two more seasons. It’s a great story and I can’t wait for the ending.

Has anyone ever realised that those that watch lost are the ones that use capitals throughout their comments. CAPS ARE NOT GOOD TURN CAPS LOCKS OFF. It gets annoying and definitely is not good for the eyes of the reader

I don’t understand why if Lost is the best thing that has every hapend to you in your life you would go to a site called whylostsucks.com

I never hear people say why Lost is “such a smart show.” I do, however, hear people say things like “it rewards loyal viewers,” or “it gives out important information gradually.” Okay, but so does Scientology.

Poor, poor, pathetic dullards – pseudo-intellectuals lapping up trite, stilted, and unoriginal soap opera story lines. Don’t they just love the ’science and mistique?’ They think, “I have no idea what’s going on – this must be some of that ‘deep stuff’ smart people seem to enjoy”

for fucks sake its a TV program you either enjoy it or you don’t theres no need to make a fucking essay about it, no one gives a fuck if you don’t like lost your just one insignificant person vs the millions of viewers of the program.

I don’t think you are understanding that this is a Sci-Fi show. If you are comparing this to reality you are stupid. Here are my responses to your 10 reasons.

1) Ok, you must be a 4th grader who still gets fooled by previews on commericials. Of course the previews show that something happens! have you never seen a preview for a TV show? How can you say nothing happens. That is ridiculous. Let’s see, a plane crashed. they found people living there. The people weren’t who they thought they were. Black smoke. Other half of the plane. People die. Whispers.Hatches. There are so many things happening. You are just annoyed because all of the questions haven’t been answered. grow up

2) Never noticed anymore shaky camera work than every other tv show/movie now a days. It’s not the Blair Witch Project. I mean is that really a reason?

3) Never noticed staring. But dude, this isn’t real life. yeah Jack looks people in the eye I guess, because he’s always being intense. But ust like #2, is that really a reason. Just because your annoyed by minor details doesn’t make a show suck.

4) didn’t watch the seasons live week to week. Just on DVD and online. So yeah, that probably sucks.

5) flashbacks are very original first of all. Name another show that does that (don’t say Family Guy). they add depth to the story and theatrical irony. We know things that the cast doesn’t know. Ok good for you, you realized that everyone has a shaky past. It’s not a coincidence these people are all on the island together. Remember…Sci Fi. I bet you thought it was stupid that Yoda was a jedi master because he is life 3ft tall.

6) This really contradicts your first point. Did you really think they wouldn’t have other cast members?

7) Again, contradicting your first point. This is a twist in the plot. I’m sorry this Sci-Fi show wasn’t the survivors just sitting on the beach and telling stories. Dharma helps try and explain the island and the people on it. Sorry your think the logo is cheesy.

Well they did stay in the hatch, until Locke blew it up. Also, people didn’t want to leave the beach in case there was a chance at rescue. They were never harmed by creatures on the beach. The Others bothered them, but I don’t think hiding in THEIR hatch would be the best idea.

9) Another stupid reason. Ok the plane crashed on a SCI-FI show. Sorry this fantasy isn’t 100% realistic. It’s a magic island. Most of your argument is like listening to “that guy” during a movie…”oh yeah, like he would survive that fall”.Or “Rocky isn’t like real boxing” Or “this car chase would never happen in real life”….You are stupid dude. Go watch Rock Of Love.

10) That is the whole point of the button. To see if it’s real. People argue about it in the show. Your proving the point of the writers!

HAHA!! Thats your top ten reasons! LOL…man..obviously the show can’t be to bad if people like you spend your free time insulting it. You hate the show because people stay on the beach when theres a hatch…wow..thats pretty sad. It’s like you’re just looking for excuses now.

You might want to sit down, take a deep breath, and cry a little if you need to but Alias, Cloverfield, Lost, Fringe, the new Star Trek (to be released in May 2008) are all based on the same story plot. Yes, they are all connected! But each can stand alone on its own. In the end (can’t say if they will end the show the way it should be) but the producers and writers have promised a knockout ending to Lost. You won’t want to miss it! Now for My List (and its not a bunch of names on a plane manifest):

Top 10 reasons to Love Lost:

10 – Freewill. Who needs government, rules, regulations, religion, etc. All you need to do is exactly what you want to do. “Just let it go Jack”. “Don’t tell me what I can’t do.”

9 – Island. You can either sit on the beach and have a Dharma beer or run for your life in the jungle. And the best part is its so hard to find that you don’t have to worry about a tourist group taking your spot on the beach.

8 – Future discoveries – Anything from time travel to sonic fences is at your grasp. Just be sure you know how they work before you go playing around with them.

7 – Past discoveries – When you discover a ancient city (oops) with heiroglyphs all over it and a donkey wheel? (B.C.) that can manipulate time and you’re not having fun, you’re just not trying.

6 – Tattoos and Brands – You can get tattooed or branded on the island and they do the service for free. All you have to do is piss someone off. Your tattoo artist might even be a Mystic Seer (oops again).

5 – Dharma hatches – You had a point there. Sure their utterly meaningless, but they are still fun to explore. You might even find costumes in one of them used to fool people into thinking they are part of an older civilization than your own.

4 – 4,8,15,16,23,42. They are just numbers but they mean so much more. People will even give up their own life to sit in a hatch and type them into a computer terminal. Just make sure they have good libations like a bottle of McHutcheons Scotch Whiskey.

3 – Whispers – You can talk to someone even when there is no one to talk to. Just wait a few moments and the conversations will start rolling. I bet they will even give you hints on what you need to do every once in a while when you’re really lost.

2 – Others – They will sit you down to a breakfast buffet in handcuffs or take you out to the valley for a canned hunt (wait you’re hunting what? who?). They will invite you to partake in one of their funerals; you just have to wear a white? robe. They will lie to you, they will steal from you, they will exhibit their full freewill upon you even to the point of taking your life. If, however, you’re nice enough they will even let you play a little touch football or read in their book club. Ben might even play a little Rachmaninoff for you on the piano.

1 – (This is a spoiler – don’t read this one or else) Door – There is a door at the center of the island which no one has seen yet. The door is large and has heiroglyphic carvings all around it. It will open on its own through the passage of time (when the stars are right and the cosmos is realigned). A very special person can also open it at anytime. Once it is opened though, its all over. Before that door opens tell all your loved ones goodbye, feed Sparky one last time, and do what you enjoy most one last time. It may not end quickly, you just won’t have enough marbels left to remember these things. You will be too busy running and screaming.

you’re argument is flawed to begin with “why lost sucks” you seem to know an awful lot about a show you claim to hate. Although at the same time you also seem to know almost nothing at all about the show.
“1. Nothing Happens” – alot happens if you actually pay attention, people get killed, other people are found to be living on the island, bunkers/hatches/buildings are found, questions are asked, mysterys are solved, etc
“2. Shaky Camera Work” – you can moan about this all you want but it’s constantly used in TV and Film, EVEN when you think it’s not.
“3. Staring Factor” – people actually stare quite alot, you probably do it all the time but you just don’t notice, it’s one of those things that can feel like you’ve only been doing it for a fraction of a second but really been doing it for much longer.
“4. 3 Episodes” – I agree this is annoying but this comes down to ABC more than the show itself i cant understand a network double booking a slot in the week, they will know how many episodes are due and they should play them uninterupeted weekly.
“5. Flashbacks” – is you payed attention you would realise that the flashbacks generally referance a similar situation the character has already gone through before reaching the island, and they shouldn’t be making the same mistake twice.
“6. New Characters” – The can introduce all the characters they want if they write the story correctly, Paulo and Nikki were written in incorrectly as they just appeared 3 series into the show as if we all should recognise them – this is one of the resons that lead to their downfall.
“7. Dharma” – I’ve heard this wasn’t the original storyline and was only included to give the characters something to do, but i guess the writers evolved the story and made it the focus point – for now at least.
“8. Hatch” – we first off the hatch wouldn’t have accomodated 40+ people inside it, seccondly the smoke monster doesn’t come to the beach, as people have realised since they’ve been on the beach for 48 days before they found the hatch, and they had agreed a truce between them and the others, which would have been told to the camp – there’s no point in having the same speach twice on the show, just a waste of time.
“9. The Crash” – you obviously don’t get the idea of the show…obviously no-one would have survived a crash like that, that’s the point. The island (and Jacob) kept them alive – for resons unknown for most of the characters, and the ones that die are ones the island has then given up on. If you think about the island as if you where John Locke it makes sense – in the context of the show, but not in real life.
“10. The Button” – i gues in the 70s they didn’t have the technology to have somethingpress the button automatically every 108 minutes, or even if they did, it was an experiment…

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I am reminded of the “Twin Peaks” perturbation.

I watched the first season while overseas and thought it was a great show. The second season was great and I thought the third season was a little lacking.

Now we are in the 4th and 5th season and Lost is beginning to suck royally. There is little cliff hangers, answers to questions and more. Only the fact that more questions are being asked then answered.

I don’t care if I watch it anymore.

Now a perfect solution to the island’s final episode of Lost would be this.

Jack find’s Ginger pregnant on a beach with Gilligan’s baby. Mr. Howell offers Whitmore a few million to get him and Luvy off the island. The Skipper and Professor are in a life or death match against each other over Mary Ann and her six children.

All the while, Noah has forced all the Heroes to the island so they cannot be found. Since the island is “absent” from radar, the heroes cannot leave the island.

While Syler is prowling around he discovers 16 contestants, non heroes, on a beach trying to win a million dollars. As he approaches to get their powers or to converse, he is interrupted by five native boys running over to the contestants to sell them t shirts on the beach.

Meanwhile, back at the crash site, 16 singles are in a feud over the hotties and notties. The Professor goes to the crash and discovers 30 boys on a life raft living as savages in the jungles.

They are at odds with each other over the leadership of the island. One of the boys is killed by a boulder being thrown off a cliff while blowing the sacred conche.

While no one was looking teams of two run into the camp to a yellow marker and then pulls out a plaquard. They must perform a duty to get to the next level.

They must pick up a few pieces of the remaining part of the US Economy before they can move on.

Meanwhile, Lost still sucks.

Lost sucks and everybody know it.It just a waste of broadcasting time.LOst is a friggin bag full of shit

Of course Lost sucks anything that JJ Jewface has to with sucks.

if you think lost sucks so much, why are you wasting your time watching it???

I actually enjoyed the beginning of lost, plus I think it’s alright to have the sci-fi element of having people survive a high altitude though, I like some mystery that gets explained

Keyword*: EXPLAINNNNEEDDDDDD!!!!!!!

the show is horrible, plan and simple. nothing ever develops. the show was created to be completely open to any and all plot changes. They are on a magical island, and are always showing flash backs. what in the world could not happen under these circumstances. there is no point to the show other than to end each episode with some suspenseful crap to get you hooked into next week. sure that is a great idea for a show if you are trying to make money. it cant backfire. once you watch a season you cant stop because you have already invested so much time in it. unfortunately there is no real ending and everyone is just watching a bunch of stupid unrealistic shit that goes nowhere.

have fun wasting time and memory on useless knowledge of what happens in a modern soap opera . network tv sucks in general. get hbo, watch movies. movies, nitro circus, sports, and news is all tv is good for, everything else = crap and waste of time.

I LIKE PIE!!!

1. Of course the writers know where it’s going. It’s obvious that they had a general idea of the whole plot arc from the start, but they also ad hoc things as they go. That is what ALL writers do. They start with a broad, general layout, then they flesh it out with details and add things as they go along. There is no way they could ever hope to resolve anything this complicated unless they had some general idea of where it was heading.

My complaints are:
1. None of the characters ask the obvious questions to each other. Or if they do, then they just accept some vague, cryptic answer. Probably half of their problems could have been avoided if someone had just said, “Wait, could you explain that a little further? Don’t avoid my question, don’t tell me to just trust you, don’t tell me it doesn’t matter…It is obvious that you know something, now explain.” But of course no one ever tries to clarify or follow up like that. They just ask a question, the other person doesn’t answer it, then the first person just accepts it with a confused look and goes along with them.
This show could not function if the characters actually demanded answers from each other like a normal person would. I guarantee you if a group of five people heard some super loud, terrible shrieks of agony, and only one person saw what was making that noise, the other four would never just accept him saying “It was nothing, forget about it.”

2.Of course the writers will answer all the BIG questions by the end, but there is no way the writers are going to wrap up the HUNDREDS of tiny things that did not make sense. I just know there are tons of tiny little mysterious that made me keep watching that are not going to be explained.

i hate you. do u have any friends u sicko nerd. delet this website now , go get a life and btw the actors they introduce onto the show are icredibuly good aspeshily josh holloway who was ther from ep 1.

i hope ur proud of youreself becaus judging by all the comments on this website. evreone in the world hates you and u are probubly a virgin.

I’m sure all of the actors on Lost will be remembered for their contributions to the cinematic arts 10 years from now – such a deep, intellectual show! NOT!!

Can anybody remember “Where Are They Now?” You’ll be seeing the cast of Lost on this show! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I totally agree that Lost sucks(just like prison break)

Its al about special effect and no substance whatsoever. The characters re unoriginal and boring. Everything on these shows have been done many times before. Only thing I like about Lost is Matthew Fox but he was much better on “Party of five” that was a good show.

Lost is just another commercial stupid american sci fi show.

There hasnt been a single good american tv show for the last 10 years IMO.

I miss tv from the 80s and 90s when it was original and entertaining shows.

So you dont like the show big deal. Oh well it’s not going to hurt my feelings. Everyone has the right to an opinion. It’s inmature to rip someone apart that like the show or dont like the show. I like Lost alot, but I can agree on that it’s frusterating with the mystries not being sloved. It could all come together at the end of season six, who knows?

LOST SPOILERS DONT READ BELOW IF YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW THE END OF LOST:

Smoke monster smiles and waves with two tumbs up…

JJ and his crew that came up with the show at the end will break in and say “haha we got ya we made the money and ran off with it”. Now we will go into hiding for awhile and think of a new show to fuck with your heads. Meanwhile the suicide rate goes up for awhile and officals come up with the conclusion that they all watched Lost.

you’re a fucking douchebag, bitch.

Lost is utter crap. It’s a show for pseudointellectuals who don’t realize that the show follows the same endless bullshit formula as schlock like Dragonball Z, General Hospital, and other shows that don’t necessarily plan their endings. Now it’s wrapping up becuase they have written themselves into a hilarious hole involving smoke monsters and the government. It’s gotta to be the worst writing I’ve seen in ages. Pathetic.

I’m with you. That is why I stopped watching that damned show three seasons ago. I said, this is going nowhere. It is like sex with no orgasm. Just constant build up and no release. I’d rather read the whole encyclopedia britannica than watch another episode of Lost. You are so right man.

Lost it’s definitely not just another commercial stupid tv phenomenon. Yes, I hate shaky cameras and yes, i hate that they’re playing the same awful suspense music every five minutes. The cast was awfully picked, like in sort of a beauty contest. Because of this and many other reasons, the show confirms it’s nature of mass-oriented product. Well, that was a huge mistake.

Lost is not for the masses, it’s not for everyone. Not for brainy people, nor pseudointellectuals, either. Some people just don’t like science fiction, don’t like Lost, and call it ridiculous. Nonetheless, the show contains many elements of drama, worthy of the time spent, and have plenty of other things to offer. “There are some flaws inside the plotline” whatever! it can’t be perfect! “The writers keep hiding the big answers” Well that’s the point of the show, don’t you think? Consider it being as a big book made of smaller tales, all of which are incomplete, and sharing their meaning in a greater truth, which happens to be the very show’s finale. I’ll wait for that, no questions asked, and then all being said, i’ll start judging if the show was really that bad or as good as it seems.

I’ve seen about three episodes of the show. When I heard the premise from the multitude of Lost fans I immediately thought of the series finale of the X-Files. The unprecedented disappointment I felt at watching a two hour “clip show” for a series finale put me off watching TV for a few years honestly. The ending of the show I came up with from watching the three episodes is this:

There is no island. The fat guy is crazy and its all in his head.

I started last week watching lost for the first time. I have the netflix stream blue ray thing in which you can bypass the commercials and have all five seasons back to back. I agree with this blog.

I am on the 3rd season, and I look back and wonder why I watched the first two. I guess the beautiful scenery and some of the outdoor camping make you “feel good”.

However, everyone is working on something, which takes alot of energy, and out in the heat. There is not enough eating, bathroom references, and sex. I know that sounds juvenile but its not. A banana here and a papaya there, and almost no bathroom or sanitation references, with the Korean getting pregnant and Soyer getting laid with that one girl and that was it and for two seaons or three months. Where did Tom Hanks go to the restroom?

The hero on that show would have been the engineer for a sanitation strategy. You have lots of sex when you are close to death and war. You need to eat red meat to be a warrior and a worker. All of this is lacking and replaced with sugar coated sex appeal tourists in a resort.

I agree the writers are copping out. As soon as you introduce the supernatural, you can get embarassingly diverse with the plot. I think the writers go write the entire show so it can easily be a dream, and then they cover their tracks by doing everything in there power for it not to be a dream, creating logical reasons for all there daydreaming prose writing, which taking on such a challenge, they miss huge things like a sanitation system. The show exploits humanity as god-like beings who do not need to go to the bathroom. I was not distracted enough to not be tortured by lack of a sanitation system from the get go and its too late now.

I’ve always hated Lost. It’s over-hyped, overrated and very boring. I can’t stand Hurley, he reminds me of someone who is in need of a weight loss and a decent haircut.

lost is a combine of random events into one piece of crap. i only watch it because i want to know the explanation of the island. i get it now! basically the evil smoke is stuck in the island. it wants to get out to the real world and fuck some chicks. all these dum asses try to protect the island for no good reasons except they are all idiots. having watched the last episode, it is proven story irrelevant that all these failed scientists are getting nothing out of the island after years of research- what a waste of money lol!
conclusion, the island remains useless to mankind after 6 seasons and everyone are just glad they aren’t on the island anymore. what a loads of crap lol. i cant say i did like certain moments, but mostly, the reward is not compensated by the time wasted!!

Wow. Really. Children.

Lost is amazing because it’s a philosophical fantasy show. It presents to us paradoxes and the philosophical concepts of redemption, the nature of man, good versus evil, and the consequences for our actions.

If you’re going to bitch about a show, make it something worth bitching about, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Friends.