Saturday, January 26, 2008
I will not be watching Lost
The ABC one-time hit show Lost will be premiering it’s forth season this week and I for one won’t be watching it. I’ve given up on this show. The start-stop schedule this show has been plagued with has finally completely soured me to it. I just don’t know why it took me this long to give up.
Stories are supposed to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The story told on Lost has a beginning, a middle, more middle, a two month break, more middle, a six month break, more middle, and then an even longer break. I am sick and tired of it.
This show was supposed to tell a story with a finite end. It wasn’t your typical network television series that told never ending, ongoing stories centers on a specific group of people. This show started out of the gate telling only one story about a small group of people. Something happened along the way that changed that. The show became a huge hit for ABC. That meant everything had to be stretched. The story had to be lengthened not because the story required it, but because the network wanted to make it last longer.
More characters were added. No small feat when the series takes place on a deserted island featuring characters that survived a plane crash. The problem is that none of these extra characters did anything to propel the original story. The only thing they did was to help water down the original story and make it all last a little bit longer.
It would be like taking a 12-issue comic book miniseries and stretching it into 75 issues.
Compounding the inherit problems with Lost is that they are starting the fourth season without enough episodes. Because of the never ending writer’s strike, they only have 8 episodes of an already pathetically short 16-episode season. Don’t start something unless you can finish it.
Because of this that I won’t be watching any of the forth season of Lost. I am not going to start something that I know I won’t be able to finish.
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Come on, man! Lost is great! Don’t you want to find out who was in that coffin?
DJ Sloofus wrote:
I already know what was in that coffin. It was my enthusiasm for the show.
Zing!!!