also its called dramatic license
i dont think anyone would act like a shakespearian character ever either but that doenst mean shakespeare is bad or cliche writing
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also its called dramatic license
i dont think anyone would act like a shakespearian character ever either but that doenst mean shakespeare is bad or cliche writing
yes yes and shakespeare was just based off of greek tragedy anyways and blah blah blah,
call it whatever you want, they didn't do a good job at it and from a neutral point of view (i wasn't caught up in the story, i was just casually watching it) it was cliche and wasn't fresh
it was just another television show with better cameras and film making equipment. With the script, they just re-hashed the trippy "Oooh what's going on here?" concept with films/shows like total recall, the truman show, the sixth sense, and the twilight zone combined with everyone's Survivor fetish at the time the show came out
It reminds me of shows like Niptuck which also suck and have some soap opera feel to them, but also have their innovative moments as well -- but the innovative moments don't outweigh the fact they're using the same cliche bullshit everyone else uses. There is no new direction being taken, just an appeal to a new generation that is still too unfamiliar with the last generation's same trippy survivalist garbage
hollywood basically thought to themselves "I wonder how long we can drag out a TV show with a mysterious premise before having to give away the 'twist' ending once viewer ratings start to drop in order to spice up the ratings for the finale"
i really wouldnt call it a "survival drama" especially after the first season
the only thing that would really fit with that category is that they're trying to find a way home
if Lost is cliche and sucky, what TV show would you consider good? most everything on TV is pure crap, so maybe Lost isn't excellent but it stands out (to me) because it's better than pretty much everything else
actually they insisted on ending it after 6 seasons while in production for season 2 so that they would know (roughly) what the plot would be ahead of time specifically so they wouldnt have to drag it out like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
they probably could have dragged it out another 2-4 years if they wanted to, ratings were good and it was the most talked about show on TV
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the show promoted right around the time the show Survivor was really big? I think it was even advertised during Survivor's commercial breaksQuote:
Originally Posted by Camoron
exactly, everything on TV sucks. I haven't even turned on my TV recently to know what's "good" at the moment. I occasionally will be stoned and downstairs in the kitchen making food, and turn on cable down there and watch adult swim which seems to be consistently 'alright'. Idk are you seriously asking me advice on what to watch? I say fuck TV and just watch movies. Commercial interuptions complicate things and the substance of the story is compromised by the network's need to leave "cliffhangers" and other such associated bullshitQuote:
if Lost is cliche and sucky, what TV show would you consider good? most everything on TV is pure crap, so maybe Lost isn't excellent but it stands out (to me) because it's better than pretty much everything else
Lost debuted in 2004Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
Survivor was like the late 90s
i dont know if it was advertised during Survivor but I doubt it since Survivor was on CBS and Lost was on ABC
there might have been some crossover in the audiences due to the similar setting of a desert island but the similarity pretty much ends there
i watch a lot of movies too but I like TV shows because they suck you in more and you get more invested in the characters
yeah, most of them suck, most tv shows are reality TV and the ones that are actually scripted are usually shitty crime dramas or horrible sitcoms or whatever, but there are some good ones. In that regard, Lost is in a different league from most fictional serialized television shows, which is why there have been so many attempted copycats of Lost (like The Event and The River) all of which had boring characters and tried to be mysterious like Lost but totally failed to capture anyone's interest and got cancelled in the first season
I like scifi so I enjoy Star Trek, Stargate, etc. Most recently I finally watched Battlestar Galactica and it was overall an excellent series imo even if the ending was kind of botched (some people let bad endings ruin an entire series/movie for them)
www.almostnakedanimals.com <----- better than lost
almost naked animals? wtf?
what does that even mean
reminded me of "Barely Legal!" porn ads you'd see back in the day
it means kiddy TV producers are fucking chicken oriental