When did LOST jump the shark?

[Inky_Wretch]

I'm not sure went it jumped the shark, but I never did watch the last eight episodes. They languished on the DVR until last summer, when I finally deleted them.

 

[DanOregon]

I think the problem with the show was that it built itself into something that couldn't support its weight. Each episode was still good, but as a whole it was a bit lacking.

 

[Pilot]

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.

I guess if all you cared about was the story, the A to Z of it all, then fine, but I enjoyed watching the show throughout its run.

I agree with Dan right above that it grew into promising more than it could ever deliver. The whole thing got so long and ... not really complex, but layered. Sometimes that wore on me, but I watched every episode as they came out and the vast majority of the time, I enjoyed that hour.

The larger story line, the mystery and the questions, were definitely a big part of the appeal, but Lost was a good show week to week, as well. If you skipped on that, that's fine. You could certainly have still picked up the story and found answers to the questions, but you didn't take in the show. You took in the story. I'm won't even argue that the journey made the end more meaningful. I'm just saying the journey was good by itself.

 

[Pilot]

Enjoyed it as mindless entertainment

: You're so smart.

 

[Azrael]

Enjoyed it as mindless entertainment

: You're so smart.

But that's what's so funny about the show, is what a tedious, sophomoric and pretentious prank the whole thing turned out to be.

It was enjoyable from episode to episode certainly, from nonsense puzzle to nonsense puzzle, but from the moment they showed the cover of The Third Policeman, it was apparent what was going on.

 

[HC]

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.

I loved "Lost" and was in right until the end. It wasn't perfect but it kept me coming back to see what happened next because I got invested in the characters and their fates.

And JR honey ... "mindless entertainment" and "endless blather" describes my feelings for you some days.

 

[93Devil]

The moment they realized they didn't have an ending to the show that worked.

 

[Webster]

In part, at the very start because they threw a lot of stuff out there which they could never tie up.

I loved the first season and was hooked thereafter. But one of the reason why I am not generally a fan of sci-fi is that the rules of logic can simply shift whenever the author feels like it. I think that Lost did a decent job of it most of the time, but anything to do with the Others (why did Ethan have super strength?), Ben and Jakob got a little off of the rails.

I hated the last season, but I think that I would have been disappointed with the end regardless.

 

[Dick Whitman]

In part, at the very start because they threw a lot of stuff out there which they could never tie up.

I loved the first season and was hooked thereafter. But one of the reason why I am not generally a fan of sci-fi is that the rules of logic can simply shift whenever the author feels like it.

Yeah, this irks me, too, when it comes to a lot of science fiction. Apparently there are some alternate sci-fi rules that sci-fi fans will use as grounds to defend leaps like John Locke really being a shape-shifting bad guy. Shape-shifting is what turned me off of "True Blood," for example, because at that point, it's like anything goes. And if anything goes, there's no more dramatic tension to sustain the plot.

Except for Kate, I never stopped enjoying the characters.

 

[93Devil]

In part, at the very start because they threw a lot of stuff out there which they could never tie up.

Yep

But for a few years, it was an amazing ride.