Fringe, easily.
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So, is Lost worth it?
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Fringe, easily.
No it wasn't, unless you think "it was amnesia, derp" is a suitable explanation. Lazy writing 101.
I stopped around the end of season three. Not because I wasn't enjoying it, I was trying to get into another shows, and I didn't have the time to watch all of them.
Should I get back to it? Am I missing much?
Was about to post this. My favorite scene in all of Lost.
The first third of S4 was kind of "off" but the show is back in fine form now. Definitely pick it back up - its the final season after all.
The wife mentioned she'd like to go through the whole series again. We both loved LOST.
And #1 by far.
And #1 by far.
TheContact
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I started watching it back in 2004 and was hooked ever since. Still have a lot of memories about of a lot of themes in that show. It was truly unbelievably popular at the time. Now, in 2012, I'm watching it all over again from the beginning and I'm highly enjoying it. I had forgotten a lot, since it's 6 seasons deep and pretty complicated, but definitely watch this show! If am very jealous that you haven't watched it yet because I wish I could erase my memory and watch it all over again with a fresh mind.
TheContact
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Looks like it...website says only available in DVD and Blu-ray now and it's not in my instant at all. Serious BS. I thought NetFlix renewed their partnership with ABC back in Oct'11
TheContact
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I called NetFlix and they said it is a technical issue. They said anywhere between 2 minutes to 2 hours it should be back. It's not just Lost I guess.
none of those episodes are as great and moving as "stranger in a strange land."
Doesnt work if the watcher doesnt have the context of the episode and Des and Penelopes characters story lines. But yeah The Constant was just extremely great television.
You have failed at Marathonning. Did you at least get to see episode 4? That one is Walkabout I believe, the one centered around John Locke, and one of the best episodes of the season.
Can't marathon it
, limited time to be honest. I can watch perhaps 2 episodes a day and that's tops.Can't marathon it
Two episodes a day is twice what I did, and I called that a marathon.
BenjaminBirdie
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Pfff, yeah Jorge Garcia is a bad actor.
loling throughout my bones and joints and muscles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwTfDqTi9g
loling throughout my bones and joints and muscles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwTfDqTi9g
Broder Salsa
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Good Job Bob
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Stranger in a Strange Land is almost so bad it's good.
This is pretty accurate.
Hah, if S4 is too unbelievable, bail out now.
I agree. I still can't get myself to buy the last season on Blu-Ray because it was all handled so horribly. I sort of pretend the show ended at S4 and select episodes of S5 make up a finale mini-series movie.
Jacob's a douche.
krameriffic
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Bumping this thread since I'm watching it again from the start. I don't feel this way about it. I just watched the pilot again and I was reminded of one simple thing: I did not get into this show simply for the weird shit factor. The first 15 minutes of the pilot are just fucking phenomenal, especially looking at it with the eyes of a veteran who knows what happens to everyone in the end.
This show has a weird capacity to make me like its characters. Most characters on most shows are fucking horrible. You watch Breaking Bad and you probably hate everyone who isn't Walt or Gus. You watch Fringe and you hate everyone who isn't Walter. You watch Alcatraz and you hate everyone. You watch House and you hate everyone who isn't House. I can go on and on about the weaknesses in supporting casts of most shows, but Lost manages to have a very solid group of about 5 or 6 interesting characters. It has its bad ones, certainly, but it does something that most shows DON'T do: it kills them off.
It draws you in with a shocking human story, a focus on characters, not on weird shit, and then takes you on this wacky journey through all kinds of shit. Fringe is a weird shit show. Alcatraz is a weird shit show. Lost is a character show with weird shit in it. People don't like how it ended. People don't like the turns that it takes past season 3. Looking at the ending in the right way, it is actually somewhat satisfying. Not as good as it could have been, certainly, but I don't think they were ever going to satisfy what this show's community grew into.
Simultaneously its greatest strength and its greatest weakness was the weird, occult following that grew around it. It gave the show a great conversational presence when it was airing, but it also created a massive hype train that was never going to be satisfied. Watch it with the right expectations and look for the right things and it is still a phenomenal experience.
Thar's probably it. It won't be long before the characters start behaving nonsensically just for the sake of it.
Oxigen_Waste
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Pretty much. Amazing 1st Season, and overall amazing characters throughout the whole show... but the most retarded excuse for a story ever.
Bullshit.
Oxigen_Waste
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Come on, are you actually going to deny that the plot is nonsensical and moronic?
I do love the characters, though. Well, some of them, at least.
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