Anyone else cant decide?

bombidol

Personally i cant decide if Lost is actually good or bad. I mean i watch it, and get the new season. But personally all i wanna know is the outcome. what happens. Its beginning to piss me off with all the run arounds. there hasnt been a straight answer in the entire series 1 +2. I like lost, but i dont know if its actually a good program. It just appeals to the curious nature of ourselves. Is it actually good? think about it

riddik

i agree totally. i download the new episodes n watch them but i am also undecided as to whether i actually like the show or not.

Great point

Anima

I suppose it depends on your definition of what "good" is. Like is Scrubs good? What makes it that way?

I think Lost is good because the story is unique and interesting. Its kind of like watching a detective show where your always trying to figure out who the killer is before you're told and thats half the fun, especially when they throw something into the mix that just makes you go, "WTF?!".

I usually never download any tv programmes but Lost has made me wake up early every Thursday morning to look for torrents. I've even skipped a few lectures just to get home early and watch it.

So yeah, I think its good

TCamen

Is it Good? The pilot was spectacular, but the series proper has left me wanting on more than one occasion.

I get the new episodes and generally *hope* the show will WOW me, but there's always frustrating elements that drag it down. And I don't mean the lack of answers necessarily - I can wait as long as I feel I'm getting *something* (e.g Babylon 5 had a long arc, but there was LOTS to keep you entertained along the way).

NONE of the main questions have been resolved satisfactorily yet -- again, that's fine by me as long as there's shorter term stuff that keeps the show ticking over when they're not dealing with the major stuff. But I don't think that's what happens at all. That's where 'Lost' falls down for me -- there's not enough meat to the series on a weekly basis that justify the lack of answers so far.I'd probably give it a conditional 'yes it's good', but it's definitely not GREAT.

Oh, and dump the flashbacks *please*

doh.ie

TCamen wrote:

Oh, and dump the flashbacks *please*

I agree we need more meat, more answers (getting there these days) and the show has disappointed in places (the usual two I bring up are 1x13 and 1x20), but when it HASN'T, it's been on fine form (endings to 1x04, 1x10, 1x11, 1x12, 1x19, 1x23).

As for the flashbacks, I'm a huge fan of that concept - but only when it's done right. We have to be learning more about the characters for the flashback concept to work. And it has to be interesting and move their characters forward. So far 1x20, 2x02 and 2x03 have been woeful in doing that and this is when the concept hits the rocks. If we don't learn something new about the character in the flashback (and we had little the past two weeks), we end up eager for the island happenings to resume.

For the most part in season 1, I found the flashbacks at least as enjoyable as the island goings-on in most cases. But in the past two weeks, I thought Locke and Michael's stories had nothing going for them at all - no new information of any consequence and clearly being used as filler.

I don't think they should drop them, but I do think they need to get them right and tell NEW stories in the flashbacks, not rehash old ground.

Stompbox

I am also torn between good and bad.

TCamen

We have to be learning more about the characters for the flashback concept to work

I just think that for S1, they generally worked quite well, but when we came to the end and saw them all finally getting on the plane and all -- it just doesn't make dramatic sense to go backwards now all over again with each character. The flashbacks so far in S2 have been woeful.

And yes, when the flashbacks suck, it only exacerbates the lack of island mystery meat.

Daelus

I've decided it's a good show. I mean, sure, a lot of it is just wanting to find out what's happening. But I really like the characters, too. Okay, Jack and Kate, not so much. But the rest of them are pretty interesting.