On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Spoilers in my comments, too: > > I decided to use the Lost finale to test the ABC player on my iPad. I > had it on as background noise while grading papers, washing dishes, > etc. I had no trouble following the double lives depicted in the > episode. Obviously, the significance of what happened to the > characters was lost on me, but the premise of the island having a > drain with a stopper in it seemed... well... silly. > I guess if that was the premise it might be silly. But it wasn't. I don't think you would have had to have seen every single episode to get the Finale, but you certainly would have had to see enough of the episodes from the current season, or at least the summary of the current season, to have any hope of making much sense out of it. I liked the Finale, and I liked the series. I don't think, as many of the most intense fans claim, that it is one of the best shows ever on television, but I do think it was one of the most consistently and successfully realized. The pilot should go down as one of the best first episodes ever, and few series have maintained their quality and vision for as long, or as well, as Lost did. This is in stark contrast to Alias, for example, which kicked ass in its first season, and then progressively kicked less and less ass as each season went on, ending in total incoherence insignificance. Lost started out as a 10, stabilized around between 7 and 8, hit a rough season when it dropped below 6, then righted itself and closed strong, consistently at 8 or above. The Finale did not wind up every loose end, and it is possible to find anomalous details over the life of the show, but it gave a meaningful context for most of the important elements of the show, paid off most of the set-ups in the convoluted narrative, and allowed them to both have many sad endings, and unresolved endings, and still leave their fans feeling good with some version of living happily ever after. I felt my time invested in the show was very well paid off. The Sopranos was a far superior show, and I liked its much-abused finale more, but I give the producers of Lost a lot of credit for ending the show in a way that was respectful of what they, and the fans, had put into it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
