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trinityvixenAs much as it should irk me that LOST excused itself from answering questions by hitting the emotional button (do you suppose they did in every 108 minutes?), it doesn't. I think I understood a long time ago that there were red herrings in this show, and it never focused long enough on any one mystery to really allow me or anyone to figure out how the whole thing fit together. I kept watching anyway.
The show's creators said it was all about the characters, about their stories. Yes and no. I certainly tuned in for that, but I also liked the mysteries, the constant WTF-ery. I should be mad that they did WTF-ery just 'cause, and not for any solid, cause-and-effect reason. If I were to watch this series beginning to end on DVD, I bet I would be pissed at all that was dropped. But I'm not because I enjoyed the WTF-ery in the way it made the show unpredictable. I don't know anyone who figured out where this last season was taking us, and I like that I can still be surprised. Yes, you can be surprised for the worse, but they did what they could to soften the blow. I dig it.
As touching as the finale was, I'm not really all that sad for LOST to be over. I mean, I'll miss the fun of watching it, of being constantly on the edge of going crazy trying to work things out, and I think I'll never love some of the actors in it in anything else they do. But the show itself needs to retire, gracefully--something I think the finale will help. It's not LOST's fault that it got over-exposed in its last season, that it was so popular that there were, I shit thee not, about five covers on Entertainment Weekly alone devoted to tales of the last days and episodes of LOST. They worked hard to build their audience, to respect their creation as much as exploit it, and they deserve some measure of popularity. If pop culture is a waste zone in this depressed time, it makes sense that LOST would be everywhere.
Doesn't mean I'm unreasonable when I say I'm tired of it, though. I'm happy to geek out about the finale with folks for a while, but I'm most looking forward to that point, in a month or so, when the distractions of summer and what-not put LOST on the back burner indefinitely. I can only hope that what people learn about this show is not that it needs to be extended (no spin-offs, please), copied (Flash Forward has shown how poorly the imitations are received), or prolonged in the pop cultural memory. I hope, instead, what they see is a show that thrived on trusting its audience to follow it and benefitted from breaking the mold, not re-inventing it. If the most studios learn from LOST is to grant creators of popular shows the ability to call the show off when it needs to be done, I'll be happy.
So long, LOST. It's been a long, strange road, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
(Note: there may be spoilers in comments!)
The show's creators said it was all about the characters, about their stories. Yes and no. I certainly tuned in for that, but I also liked the mysteries, the constant WTF-ery. I should be mad that they did WTF-ery just 'cause, and not for any solid, cause-and-effect reason. If I were to watch this series beginning to end on DVD, I bet I would be pissed at all that was dropped. But I'm not because I enjoyed the WTF-ery in the way it made the show unpredictable. I don't know anyone who figured out where this last season was taking us, and I like that I can still be surprised. Yes, you can be surprised for the worse, but they did what they could to soften the blow. I dig it.
As touching as the finale was, I'm not really all that sad for LOST to be over. I mean, I'll miss the fun of watching it, of being constantly on the edge of going crazy trying to work things out, and I think I'll never love some of the actors in it in anything else they do. But the show itself needs to retire, gracefully--something I think the finale will help. It's not LOST's fault that it got over-exposed in its last season, that it was so popular that there were, I shit thee not, about five covers on Entertainment Weekly alone devoted to tales of the last days and episodes of LOST. They worked hard to build their audience, to respect their creation as much as exploit it, and they deserve some measure of popularity. If pop culture is a waste zone in this depressed time, it makes sense that LOST would be everywhere.
Doesn't mean I'm unreasonable when I say I'm tired of it, though. I'm happy to geek out about the finale with folks for a while, but I'm most looking forward to that point, in a month or so, when the distractions of summer and what-not put LOST on the back burner indefinitely. I can only hope that what people learn about this show is not that it needs to be extended (no spin-offs, please), copied (Flash Forward has shown how poorly the imitations are received), or prolonged in the pop cultural memory. I hope, instead, what they see is a show that thrived on trusting its audience to follow it and benefitted from breaking the mold, not re-inventing it. If the most studios learn from LOST is to grant creators of popular shows the ability to call the show off when it needs to be done, I'll be happy.
So long, LOST. It's been a long, strange road, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
(Note: there may be spoilers in comments!)
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Date: 2010-05-24 10:31 pm (UTC)I read that SPN was supposed to have ended last season and now they've got a 6th. I'm not sure how I feel about that, yet. I think it can PROBABLY handle a sixth, but I don't want it to drag on.
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Date: 2010-05-25 02:44 am (UTC)