LOST os a wild one for me because i never watched it growing up. Everything i know about it was just from watching commercials during shows i actually liked, and i very quickly had no fucking clue what was going on with that. 10 years later i had the exact aame experience whenever my much younger brother would watch Arrow. Absolute nonsense TV shows that started with a good premise before immediately spiraling out of control.
I have never had the motivation to actually start it knowing that the writers were just winging the overarching plot and it ultimately ends up nowhere remotely satisfying. Like yes I’m sure that episode to episode the story flows and the mysteries are interesting and the characters play off each other well. But it really sounds like a TTRPG DM who refuses to plan his campaign ahead and is just worldbuilding on the fly and throwing out puzzles and mysteries that even he doesn’t have the solution or understanding of. Sure that can be fun as hell while you’re in it trusting that the DM is building toward something. But then when those loose threads run out and you realize that they never had anything on the other end at all. That almost ruins the entire experience, even the good stuff. I’ve invested years into multiple novel series that ended up being like that, series I absolutely loved and reread multiple times for fun as the books were still coming out, and now I can’t even pick them back up due to the taint of the endings.
I hope so but they’re already abusing cliffhangers so they’re not that far off from just completely stalling the narrative on every chapter except the last one.
It’s not safe from The Walking Deadification, though. And I’m sad to say, it seems like it’s already happening.
There’s no way Severance goes on for 11 seasons.
Laughs in LOST
The days of shows like that being 20 episodes a season are long gone.
LOST os a wild one for me because i never watched it growing up. Everything i know about it was just from watching commercials during shows i actually liked, and i very quickly had no fucking clue what was going on with that. 10 years later i had the exact aame experience whenever my much younger brother would watch Arrow. Absolute nonsense TV shows that started with a good premise before immediately spiraling out of control.
Lost is amazing, easily one of my top probably 10 favorite shows
I have never had the motivation to actually start it knowing that the writers were just winging the overarching plot and it ultimately ends up nowhere remotely satisfying. Like yes I’m sure that episode to episode the story flows and the mysteries are interesting and the characters play off each other well. But it really sounds like a TTRPG DM who refuses to plan his campaign ahead and is just worldbuilding on the fly and throwing out puzzles and mysteries that even he doesn’t have the solution or understanding of. Sure that can be fun as hell while you’re in it trusting that the DM is building toward something. But then when those loose threads run out and you realize that they never had anything on the other end at all. That almost ruins the entire experience, even the good stuff. I’ve invested years into multiple novel series that ended up being like that, series I absolutely loved and reread multiple times for fun as the books were still coming out, and now I can’t even pick them back up due to the taint of the endings.
I hope so but they’re already abusing cliffhangers so they’re not that far off from just completely stalling the narrative on every chapter except the last one.