Materially a terrible sci-fi mystery show called LOST was really popular like 20 years ago and idiots in the entertainment industry decided that meant that JJ Abrams had to be in charge of writing all dialogue forever after that.
Oh and I guess Buffy was marginally less sexist than contemporary media, which... is horrifying. But it was marginally less sexist, so Whedon became a big deal, too.
It's really the success of Buffy and Lost at a time when a bunch of shit with how the TV and Movie industry made money was changing. JJ and Whedon.
I hated LOST from the start, predicted very early on that there was no way that all the hype and pretension was ever going to have a satisfying payoff, yet that "mystery box" grifter kept getting paid to borrow other people's toys and break them while scratching his initials on their remains. :disgost:
on the plus side, LOST was the show that inoculated me against future mystery-box stories.
except for The Leftovers, which I recommend if you haven't seen it. A mystery-box show that's up-front about the lack of answers, and in fact the whole show is about how people go on with their lives (or don't) in the face of huge, unanswerable questions.
Materially a terrible sci-fi mystery show called LOST was really popular like 20 years ago and idiots in the entertainment industry decided that meant that JJ Abrams had to be in charge of writing all dialogue forever after that.
Oh and I guess Buffy was marginally less sexist than contemporary media, which... is horrifying. But it was marginally less sexist, so Whedon became a big deal, too.
It's really the success of Buffy and Lost at a time when a bunch of shit with how the TV and Movie industry made money was changing. JJ and Whedon.
I hated LOST from the start, predicted very early on that there was no way that all the hype and pretension was ever going to have a satisfying payoff, yet that "mystery box" grifter kept getting paid to borrow other people's toys and break them while scratching his initials on their remains. :disgost:
on the plus side, LOST was the show that inoculated me against future mystery-box stories.
except for The Leftovers, which I recommend if you haven't seen it. A mystery-box show that's up-front about the lack of answers, and in fact the whole show is about how people go on with their lives (or don't) in the face of huge, unanswerable questions.