Many ideas stolen directly from
a post I made defending my own feelings on LOST, even references to Star Wars. Good job. And from an earlier post in the same thread, I said:
In every episode thread where someone expresses disappointment, you're there to call them an asshole. The show had a lot of promise and it's forced those of us with high hopes for the sci fi elements (that is, seated in some sort of real science) to significantly lower our expectations and now they're completely shot, so allow us our disdain. You can turn off your brain and coast along with these hack writers and enjoy the show -- that's your right -- but don't judge us for calling a spade a spade.
I don't recall that post, mainly because many of the posts praising or attacking a TV show I don't care to remember two weeks later. Sorry.
Besides, it's just an obvious reference that many fans of this type of TV show would likely understand. May have gotten embedded in my conscious without realizing it, and so I'll give you credit regardless.
Also, I've never once called someone an asshole for how they felt about a TV show. If I did, then I forgot about it because it was a trivial matter. And also likely something along the lines of "don't be such an asshole", that's a phrase I could see myself using.
Chief example, I wanted to outright refer to brblx as an asshole, for openly questioning my intelligence based on how I interpreted something, which I turned around and pointed out as absolute fact. Oddly enough, no response to the link for the 2007 plot outline leak until the end of the series.
I didn't read it back then because I didn't care to know, but now knowing the show is almost over, I felt it safe to see what they had laid out, fully expecting their to be differences in details to change things up for surprises.
I
have questioned how wrapped up people get in these trivial details, going as far as questioning the quality of the fiction at hand based on the final season of a series which has been overly complex, and obviously headed toward insane-level conclusions anyhow.
And I have pointed to the potent catch-22 the writers are dealing with here. All the fans have been rabid about getting answers, and it is incredibly obvious of a fact, that regardless of
what those answers actually describe, a majority of the fans are going to be pissed.
I wrote a critical analysis of this show at the beginning of Season 4 for a course based around critically analyzing televised programs. Does that make be an expert? Hell no, and I won't claim it does.
But what I'm trying to get at, is I'm not some kind of rabid fan for the show. I'm a rabid fan for what the show represents. Detailed fiction filled with plot devices that advance character interactions based firmly on concrete social themes. This is something that is extremely rare in fiction.
I loved Battlestar Galactica (new version) for the same exact reason. The story itself went to some odd places, and ended quite strangely, but there was not one moment when the show disappointed me. Because the gravity of the characterizations was far more immense and deep than most works of televised fiction.
If someone took the ideas of Lost, ones presented in Seasons 1 and 2, and thought the show was going to end on some concrete, rational, realistic details... that's just delusional. Sorry to say.
Monster, made of smoke. Polar bear on island (this was clarified in Season 3, quite rationally I might add. Maybe this gave people hope for other crazy themes?)
Scientific researchers exploring paranormal capabilities on the island?
Things obviously appearing and strange happenings that just aren't possible in real life?
I just don't get what people are really up in arms about. The story has always been pointing to something quite out of the ordinary, and everyone demanded answers for these out of the ordinary occurrences that viewers saw as obviously meant to be answered at some point.
If you would rather them not have introduced anything that would have pointed to the necessity for answers... then, would you still have been okay with the smoke monster (present since the first episode)? How about hatches exploding because of a loss of control of an anomaly? The idea that everyone on the plane was interconnected in some way? The whole "The Constant" thing should have outright pissed people off. That was before the island moved, before time travel, before they revealed Jacob, but notably, quite a bit after anyone was ever deemed special in a very obvious way.
The way I see it, the whole reason for anyone being special is because of the island. Is that really enough for anyone as far as answers go? And after that, go into detail of HOW these people are special? I'm not satisfied with knowing WHY the island is important now, and from that, if they don't answer why specific people are special, I won't mind.
As a huge fan of characterizations, and as an aspiring fiction author, there are certain things that are more important in a story for me than other things. And the way the creators have handled Lost, and how the writers of BSG handled that show, those TV shows have had more of an impact than almost any other televised production, ever.