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Should the writers have just kept tight-lipped about the show?

  • 27-04-2010 1:43pm
    #1
    Mr.Nice Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,640 ✭✭✭✭


    I've noticed in a few of the threads this season a lot of people feel let down by the direction the show has taken and the way the writers have dealt with important aspects of the show. It has me wondering whether the writers were right to be so open about the show's ongoing story.

    Part of me admires the fact that they have been open to the audience and I think they deserve credit for achieving success as writers when most shows just shine the spotlight on the actors. However, on the other hand, I can't help but feel by making the big promises they have made to the audience, and by making an ongoing discussion of the plot such a central part of the programme, that they have in a way made it more difficult for themselves to live up to expectations and at times written themselves into tight spots.

    It has me wondering have they been too open? So much so that they have left themselves over-exposed to potential criticism? If they had kept quiet and not talked about the show as much as they have would Lost be better or worse off?

    What say you?


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  • #2
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    If they need to explain things they are doing a piss poor job of making a tv show that stands on it's own two feet.


  • #3
    Dymo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Dymo


    No they were generating hype about the future episodes of the show which season 6 isn't able to match which is leaving people disappointed. I've watched all the past episodes of lost in the last couple of weeks and have a further 8 episodes of season 6 watched and season 6 just seems to be like a road block after season 5 filling in the time but still not going anywhere. All of season 6 could of been put into about 3 episodes with out the FS. The best consistent episodes are ones which deal with things on the island

    I'm looking forward to the rest of the series, but I just hope they deal with it better than the past episodes.


  • #4
    cooker3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭cooker3


    Funny, I think it's the exact opposite problem. The biggest issue I have had with this season is the lack of any explanation/progress re the flash-sideways. I always knew there will be an overarching point to them but it took 11 episodes and the introduction of Desmond for there to be any hint of an explanation. I'm all for delayed gratification but it created a vicious cycle of people not knowing what's happening, complaining about it and the criticism building week upon week.


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