Jeff Zero posted...
Oh god, I was reading that as a continuation of the "Leverage" post for a moment and I was beyond confused.
Honestly though, few characters were calling to me during the first season. Some in particular (Shannon always comes to mind) were really cranking down the entertainment level for me and folks like Sawyer, Locke and Hurley could only do so much to alleviate the nausea I felt coming on every time she was on-screen.
Whenever I discuss my dismissal of LOST with fans of the series there's this expectation that I ditched the show midway through the second year because I noticed a drop in quality from the first. I know it's a rare thought and I really wish I felt differently so I could have joined in the fun but I didn't overly enjoy myself in that freshman year either.
Fair enough. The expectation's there because it's completely believable and probably a route many a fan thought about taking at the time. The huge drop in quality was undeniable and glaring. I don't even entertain going back and watching a lot of Season 2, even though I've seen select episodes of the show at least ten-fifteen times. If you didn't like Season 1, you didn't.
Hell, I'm one of the few who liked Shannon. Was she annoying? Yes, but I thought with how Season 1 ended and well the show had handled character development so far, that Shannon's character was going to become something spectacular.
There's a certain character coming up on both Maniac's and my lists that I will freely point out how I thought Shannon's character could have gone, how I thought the writers would have developed her. I was wrong and disappoints me a bit, but at the time, I thought Shannon was going to be incredible (or at least attempted to be).