having said that, every now and then a show comes a long that i plug into and end up falling for its characters, thus following it to its conclusion.
and you know what? to begin with, LOST wasn't one of them.
i remember watching the pilot episode... a lot of buzz was building up about it, that it was going to be a monumental event that would change the face of TV-Land. i was actually in Sydney, Australia at the time, and i was going to be flying home in a few months. and that pilot episode of LOST did nothing for me. i didn't like any of the characters, and the whole thing seemed really preposterous. i'm pretty good at willingly suspending my disbelief for a good story or amazing characters, and it didn't happen with LOST's first episode, so i abandoned ship pretty much immediately.
but then, just about everyone else i knew stuck with it, and for the next 5 years, i had to continually defend my opinion of LOST being a ridiculous piece of television drivel. problem was, that people i think are smart LOVED it. so my exposure to LOST continued, much to my chagrin.
i would never call anyone i respect "dumb" for liking a show or a band or movie just because i don't like it (it has happened to me!). when i met my boyfriend and discovered that in fact, he was another one of these smart and awesome people who liked LOST, i was cool with it as long as he didn't overexpose me to it.
LOL.
i moved in with him, and the LOST marathon began. see, we don't have cable, so we download whatever tv shows we're into. and The Boy had 5 seasons of LOST to catch me up on, if it was ever going to work out between us (i kid, i kid! but he was unrelenting in his insistence upon explaining his LOST theories to me and extolling the wonders of the manipulative character Benjamin Linus). in response, i liked to remind him that the writers had admitted to having difficulty telling the story's uber-complicated plot, a sign of poor writing.
in the course of my reluctant exposure to the show, something happened... i started to care about the characters. not all of them, of course. i had to admit there was something compelling about Ben Linus. and i was sympathetic to Charlie, and to Claire, and of course Hurley. and even though Sawyer bugged the shit out of me, i was drawn to that character as well (although it might just be that his dimples have a gravity of their own). i loved it whenever the crazy French lady Rousseau intervened, and seeing Locke's life unfold. and then Desmond... and then later on, the science team - Daniel, Charlotte and Myles. by the end of season 5, i even started to like Jack and Kate (i know, right?!?!) i could go on...
having arrived so late to the party, i'm feeling a little lost myself, now that it's over. the finale wasn't awesome. making the excuse that it was supposed to ask questions rather than answer them is still a sign of misguided storytelling and poor plot construction, in my opinion. but i can't argue with the fact that the writers' success was in creating compelling characters, and i am sad to see them go.
thus, in honour of a show that did get me thinking and asking questions about life, fate, relationships and coincidence, here are some really cool LOST posters. admittedly, this is reposted from Ms. Arscott - sometimes things are too good not to repost :)
there are tons more of these... click here for a selection which include some of the above, or you can do what i did afterwards and google "lost posters" - there are some really fantastic ones out there and i couldn't post them all!
what were your thoughts on the show and it's finale?
1 w00t!s:
I think I might be the ONLY person who has never seen an episode of Lost - but after reading that one poster with the synopsis, well, I think I need to start:)
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