When did LOST jump the shark?

[MisterCreosote]

To piggyback off of ****'s thread about The Office, when did LOST become the incomprehensible cluster**** it was?

Given all of the storylines left unresolved, and the blatant bait-and-switches, I'd feel comfortable saying it jumped on Day 1.

Hindsight is 20-20, of course, but in retrospect, I can't see how anyone would argue differently.

 

[ColdCat]

once they introduced the numbers you had to type in and button you had to push every 108 minutes or else the world blows up I went from watching each episode to reading recaps the next day to see if anythng happened and finding out usually nothing did

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Never found it an "incomprehensible CLUSTER****!!!!!" but then, unlike many of those who couldn't follow it after the first season, it wasn't my first nerd rodeo.

 

[Double Down]

It clearly wobbled when people were ****ing in bear cages at the start of season three, but it was still a great show until the sideways timeline. I think it could still be a great show in some ways if you just wiped out the entire final season and put them all in the church when the bomb goes off.

 

[spikechiquet]

It jumped the shark?

 

[Dick Whitman]

I actually liked the ending. Not the golden lake, but the sideways flashback explanation and the gathering at the church. Thought that was cool.

 

[Double Down]

It jumped the shark?

Actually, it jumped the shark, landed, then went back in time to watch itself jumping the shark, then left the mystery of why the shark existed in the first place unanswered, then told you not to worry about the logical inconsistencies because it was really a story about how you felt about the shark, and the jumping was just the vehicle for you to examine that.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

It jumped the shark?

Actually, it jumped the shark, landed, then went back in time to watch itself jumping the shark, then left the mystery of why the shark existed in the first place unanswered, then told you not to worry about the logical inconsistencies because it was really a story about how you felt about the shark, and the jumping was just the vehicle for you to examine that.

I think that sets up the rest of the thread nicely.

 

[Double Down]

If anything goes wrong, jumping the shark will be my constant.

 

[bigpern23]

I thought it wavered during Season 3, when they had episodes that felt like filler because the writers didn't know how long they were going to have to drag the show out. But once they set the end of Season 6 as the finale, I thought it got back its traction and finished as one of my favorite shows ever.

It wasn't perfect, but it never got into that area where they were still pumping out shows long after it had lost its fastball just because they could make so much money in syndication the Scrubs did. That, to me, is jumping the shark.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I watched the first two seasons, then not another minute until the pre-finale one-hour recap and then the finale. I don't think I missed a thing.

But I always said they should have had the Globetrotters come to the island.

 

[Magic In The Night]

It jumped the shark?

Actually, it jumped the shark, landed, then went back in time to watch itself jumping the shark, then left the mystery of why the shark existed in the first place unanswered, then told you not to worry about the logical inconsistencies because it was really a story about how you felt about the shark, and the jumping was just the vehicle for you to examine that.

Seriously end of thread!

 

[schiezainc]

I think it pretty clearly jumped the shark the moment they started the sideways timeline in Season Six. To me, they very clearly couldn't come up with answers to the show's biggest mysteries without pissing off large portions of fans who had much, much cooler explanations for it so they just decided to say "F**k it. The mysteries don't matter" and Lost apologists, on this site especially, tried to reason that things like the numbers were irrelevant because they were afraid to admit the truth: the writers let us down.

That being said, I enjoyed the hell out of the show and out of the finale and I will do a rewatch again someday despite the disappointment I now feel in the ending because it was a truly unique and wonderful show to watch.

 

[RickStain]

For me? When Jacob went from all-powerful mysterious awesome guy to a barely functional child.

 

[RickStain]

What's interesting to me about Lost is that it has no rewatch value to me whatsoever.

Almost anything I like, I watch/read/listen to repeatedly. There are shows I've watched dozens of times.

But I can't find a single Lost episode that I feel like watching again, even though I enjoyed it the first time through.

 

[schiezainc]

What's interesting to me about Lost is that it has no rewatch value to me whatsoever.

Almost anything I like, I watch/read/listen to repeatedly. There are shows I've watched dozens of times.

But I can't find a single Lost episode that I feel like watching again, even though I enjoyed it the first time through.

The ending of the Constant remains one of the best moments of TV I've ever watched.

 

[JR]

What's interesting to me about Lost is that it has no rewatch value to me whatsoever.

Almost anything I like, I watch/read/listen to repeatedly. There are shows I've watched dozens of times.

But I can't find a single Lost episode that I feel like watching again, even though I enjoyed it the first time through.

Bingo.

Jesus, someone's starting a "jump the shark thread" about this show?

I watched every episode with HC. Enjoyed it as mindless entertainment but it reminded me of "Twin Peaks" .

Lots of blather while it was on and then it faded into oblivion.

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

Nikki and Paulo or when John Locke was resurrected as The Man in Black.

 

[BYH]

It wasn't perfect, but it never got into that area where they were still pumping out shows long after it had lost its fastball just because they could make so much money in syndication the Scrubs did. That, to me, is jumping the shark.

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!!!!!!

As for the topic: Season 2, Episode 1. I've said here plenty of times: Lost was a GREAT one-season idea, and the first season was largely fantastic. But then ABC said let's wring that cash cow til the utters go up in flames and the show went to complete utter **** in season two. I stopped watching and have less than zero interest in ever seeing how it turned out. But then again I'm not a nerd like Piotr. #****IsOn

 

[Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell]

Oh wait, speaking of season two, introducing the "tailies" and quickly killing them off might be a jump the shark moment.