Lost - Best Show On Television

[enderandrew]

I don't watch an inordinate amount of television, because it is a medium in which writers intentionally try not to resolve issues.  That's because the money is in continuing the show as long as possible.  Stories also can't become too intricate because you lose viewers.

But in the age of TiVo, TV on DVD, and the internet, suddenly the networks are willing to try a show like Lost, which is audacious storytelling at its best.  Well developed characters, with a character-centric story, and yet the scope just continues to grow in size in every year.  Themes compound, layers are built upon layers, and it only gets better.

The episode tonight was no exception.  If you do not watch this show, I recommend picking up the first season on DVD, or watching the first few episodes online, and know that the show does just get better and better as you go along.

[Xordan]

A few of my friends have recommended it too, although I haven't seen it myself.

I just like to watch old TV shows Like Yes Minister and Blackadder.

[Waterman]

LOST is one of the best tv series when it comes to storytelling.  Seasons 2/3 kinda drag but ever since they set an end-date the episodes have been top-notch.  Just be sure you watch from the very beginning. If you don't like the pilot (without doubt the best pilot I've ever seen, most are pretty bad), you probably won't like the rest of 'em.

This and Dexter are pretty much the only shows I'm sure to watch (I'm not counting comedies because it's not so bad if you miss an episode).

[Eathon]

Xordan: Those two are great! Good taste, methinks.

* Eathon applauds

[enderandrew]

I bought my wife the 5 season Black Adder set, which we need to finish, but I've never heard of Yes Minister.

Are you a fan of Faulty Towers?

[Drey]

For me, I don't really enjoy lost. It's something you rather have to concentrate on and it never really grabbed me.

Dexter on the other hand is excellent! And I think the show does the books fair justice which isn't normally the case with these types of thing.

Of late I've also been watching dollhouse, from mr buffy/angel/firefly, a lot of people probably disagree but I think you'd see things are just about heating up now.

[Lanarel]

I like(d) lost, because it was so unpredictable. The format especially first season was nice (showing more about main characters in flashbacks), it was surprising in where it was going, and in killing off characters that seemed important. And had them come back. It did remind me of Buffy the Vampire slayer in that way (which I liked as well ). Which may not have been total coincidence, because I saw a few names from the Buffy team among writers and producers.
Later seasons of lost this gets a bit old though. Most of the mystery is replaced by explaining things hinting to aliens. (although I have fun trying to translate the hieroglyphs )/

Of course it does not come close to Blackadder, Yes minister, Fawlty Towers or most british comedy
Oh, let me take this oportunity to for the first time link to youtube: click

[Gohra]

LOST is genius.
Never seen a TV series with such complex structure of narration, different plots, interesting characters and using of timeline for secrets.
But worthy is Lost because the whole story fits together, many series forget what happened in earlier seasons, Lost explain secrets of season 1 in season 3 or 4. The 4th is now playing in germany, so i'm exciting about what happened until the end. Additionally there are many symbols and topics used which support the main plot. The small stories of characters always influences on the main story. I'm sure, LOST will find a good conclusion and most questions will be answered. Another good point is, that it's a series for intelligent people, because only the pictures explain some things, and there aren't explainations from the charcter themself often. SO, if you can and want to think, you'll get a good mystery feeling.

Unfortunately, many episodes tell nothing, so the story became longer than it should need.
I think Lost is the best series J.J. Abrahms invented. Alias and Fringe are also nice but not so special.

Bad, that there seems not to be many fans here in germany, in my experience. So we have to wait more than one year to watch the next season after the US citizen, grrr. But ok, we#ll have the series one year longer than

[Ralas]

I love Lost, but I am now a few seasons behind cuz ABC's streaming player blocks out Linux.  I might have to buy some DVDs one of these days, unless anyone has found a way to get around this?

[Pizik]

I did watch Lost up until about the end of season 3, but lost track of it for some reason. I do like it though. Some very interesting concepts.

@Enderandrew:

You should check out Yes Minister and Yes Primeminister. Probably one of the best political comedies ever (besides politics itself)

[enderandrew]

I love Lost, but I am now a few seasons behind cuz ABC's streaming player blocks out Linux.  I might have to buy some DVDs one of these days, unless anyone has found a way to get around this?

I should try it at home and see if I can get it to work on Linux.  Have you tried a User Agent switcher?  It sends a user agent string to ABC, telling it you are running Firefox on Windows, and that might work.

[Ralas]

might be worth a shot, but I don't think it would work because they make you download a proprietary installer that runs as an exe.  I have tried firefox for windows in wine as well as IE in wine and IE4linux and no luck so far.

[enderandrew]

I haven't checked their website in a while.  The .exe installer probably in turn installs a Firefox plugin since you're not actually watching the episodes in a separate app, but in the browser.  I wonder if you can install it in Windows, copy the plugin over to Linux, and throw it in your Mozilla profile.  I'll try that sometime.

[Anumesa]

LOST is genius.
Never seen a TV series with such complex structure of narration, different plots, interesting characters and using of timeline for secrets.
But worthy is Lost because the whole story fits together, many series forget what happened in earlier seasons, Lost explain secrets of season 1 in season 3 or 4.

The reason why i stopped watching LOST is because though the series didn't forget what happened in earlier seasons I DID!!! I kept watching and watching and nothing was ever explained so i stopped watching. I heard this season they are explaining a lot more but i haven't bothered catching up..

[Waterman]

For those who have not seen season 4/5...you're in for a treat.  I too lost track of LOST around the end of season 2/early 3.  But I started watching again and 4 &5 are pretty great, though the style has changed dramatically since they are now answering questions (no more flashbacks, mostly) rather than trying to confuse viewers (though of course there are plenty of questions, it is LOST after all and Ben is a main character!).  For those who don't know, I believe season 6 is the last season.