Ah LOST, the biggest show I could never get into.
I watched it every week for a season and a half before I finally gave up. I also watched the finale, which was good from my perspective, though it was still hard to believe how far from the beginning the show went.
I just could never get into the characters. The only ones I didn't dislike were Sawyer (as long as he wasn't near Kate), Charlie (half the time), and Hurley. That's it.
The mysteries were intriguing but after a season and a half of learning nothing and quickly realizing that we were on a path to go farther away from the mysteries I wanted explained, I just became frustrated with it. Even after I gave up though I still kept up with the mysteries. Mostly because I had friends and family that would come to me for theories and possible explanations (I'm good at that stuff). It was always fun coming up with theories on the island giving super powers (Locke's healing, Walt's seeming ability to make things he pictures real), the smoke monster being a machine, an alien study on humanity (the three toed statue and Dharma), or Egyptian Gods being real and still having power here (the statue of the God of Restoration and Rebirth). Frell, I spent like an hour researching Egyptian Gods with my sister until we found which one that statue was. This also lead to hilarious "never going to happen but wouldn't it be great if" theory where LOST ended up being another Stargate spinoff and this whole place was created by the Gould. And now knowing that all of those theories were completely pointless because they either were never explained or were completely changed over the length of the show, I'm glad I didn't bother. It was frustrating enough asking what things were seasons later and having my friends continually tell me "they haven't explained that yet" or even "yeah, they forgot about that". With each season that they brought me new stuff to figure out I realized how crazy it had become. With an outside perspective I listened as this show switch from mythical island mystery, to science expirament, to ghost story, to Supernatural, and it was just mind boggling. I could not understand how people loved this show so much. And I loved how often I was informed that a new group of people were found on the island. It is amazing that they Losties didn't run into any of them for an entire season.
Add in time travel, purgatory, a good vs evil battle fueled by deus ex machina, and Kate apparently becoming even more of a Mary Sue, and I will almsot certainly never bother to watch the rest of this show.
Oh and I'm also pissed at it for not even bothering to pretend they did any research before setting something in Iowa. Long horn Steer? Palm Trees? Are you serious bro?
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