I can't really watch anything that doesn't have a clear arc or start/stop point. Shows are just too long for me. Last thing I liked was Over the Garden Wall which is just a sliced up movie. Love movies though so its not an attention span thing.
People ask me what I do and I cook a lot and draw and read books and kiss my boyfriend. IDK when I would even watch shows lol.
But I tell people this and they can't understand or get really weird interrogating me how I spend my free time. The happy version of this is some of my coworkers found out I really like dancing and now they ask me 'are you going dancing this weekend?' on Thursday or Friday.
My instinct told me that "LOST" wasn't going anywhere and that it was a giant inflating ball of hot air and bullshit. I never got emotionally invested in it and quit watching even while friends and family kept insisting it's this amazing big mystery that actually became a hobby for them to speculate about.
I felt so much Cassandra-like satisfaction when they were baffled by the fact that there was no meaningful mystery to solve in Abrams' giant pile of bullshit inside the so-called mystery box.
For that reason, ever afterward, I refuse to acknowledge any sort of long winded series unless it's good from the start and enjoyable within an episode or two or if the entire run conclusively goes somewhere and that's verified when it happens.
if meritocracy was real jj abrams wouldn't have a career
Kurtzman would be in slightly worse conditions than even Abrams.
he shouldn't even write church bulletins
I watched two episodes of LOST and then I LOST interest. That said, from everything I hear, it kind of seems like the appeal would have been to be part of the speculation crowd.
That aside, I'm not sorry I missed it.
I've had to put my faith in shows that suck at first but most are older shows where an awkward first couple seasons was expected. Simpsons, Seinfeld, Star Trek TNG, Babylon 5, all had pretty bad first seasons or at least the shows had t found their ground yet.
I think the difference there was those rough starts were attempts to do something new or at least something different with an old IP. When Abrams fucks up he's usually given basically a blank check and someone else's pre-made toys to bash apart.
Fair enough, don't trust Abraham's, but don't blame all longer shows or especially ones that do long form stories cause they suck at the start. I'm on my first b5 rewatch and while season 1 was an absolute grind d thst I got through on the assurance it was a good show, on second watch you see just how much subtle set up is done in that season.
I did say I wait and see if a big hyped thing is actually going to deliver after the "LOST" thing came and went. Sometimes it does deliver eventually, and then I enjoy it later after knowing that.
Abrams contributed to a trend of hype bubbles of pretension that weren't even rocky starts; they were often promising starts with no actual intention to deliver later.
Must have missed that. I just wait 20 years or so before watching most things.
my pleasure with LOST is remembering the first time someone explained it to me in detail whe it was in like season 2 or 3 or something and me being like "so what, they are dead and this is purgatory or something?" and them being like "no" and then years later i was right