From: Vengeful_KBM | #073
AlecTrevelyan006 posted...
I disagree with this idea. Whether or not you think it is true in this case, it can definitely have an effect.
If the final season of "Game of Thrones" revived everybody and they all lived happily ever after, that WOULD make earlier seasons worse.
....Why? I simply cannot grasp this concept. I seriously cannot. Even in such an extreme stupid case as that, how would that make Season 1 any worse? How would Episode 9 of Season 1 be any less compelling because something several years down the line turned out to be disappointing? I just don't get it.
Bad endings are bad. Yes, I agree. I disagree that Lost had a bad ending, but that's beside the point. I can't wrap my mind around the concept that a bad ending suddenly makes Sean Bean's acting in the first season worse, or that somehow the writing and directing in the fifth episode of the second season are suddenly crap now and it's not good entertainment. There is literally no correlation.
It doesn't make the acting, directing, or writing of that particular episode bad. But there is so much more to a show than that. Everything in a show with an overarching story has to fit together.
If you watch it again knowing that he'll just come back to life later, it would cheapen the whole scene. It would take a lot of the significance and meaning out of the scene. It would undermine the themes that are pervasive throughout the story. It would mean that season 1 was ultimately a lie, even if it was a lie that you were compelled by at the time.
Again, I'm not saying this is necessarily true of Lost, but seasons and episodes do not exist in a vacuum. Everything is connected.
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