Thoughts: Initial Responses to Lost

[ada_farrow]

As we approach the end of season one of Lost (a bittersweet time, do doubt...hah), I'm just curious to know when and how everyone picked up on the series. Did you like it initially? How devoted are you to this fandom? What kept/keeps you watching? Other thoughts

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[yndigot]

I heard about it because I am a diehard reader of Entertainment Weekly. They have a season preview in the fall, and there it was. Dom Monaghan and -- realize that I had just recently seen The English Patient and was thinking, my god, that man is gorgeous -- Naveen Andrews in one show. And one that was oddly similar to Lord of the Flies, one of my all time favorite books. I was skeptical at first. I had to tape the first few episodes and I watched them all at once. After that, I started rearranging my schedule.

First off, the filming is beautiful. I was initially put off by Locke and Jack, but I've grown to like them and I think all the characters are very well developed, or at least have the possibility to go far. The possibilities with the symbolism are too great for a lit junkie to pass up, and the Locke/Rousseau/Tabula Rasa bit? Too much for a history junkie to pass up.

I do, at some point, read nearly all the fanfiction that comes across my flist through communities and personal journals on lj. I discuss the show when I get an opportunity. I role-play in the fandom. And I attempt the fanfiction, but it never gets finished. *g* I really haven't been this invested in a story since ... honestly? Since I first read LotF.

Right now, all I really have to say about the show is that I hope to god it's going somewhere. If it starts with the circles and the aimless supernaturalness, I might cry. And sometimes I worry the way they introduce so many mysteries. I hope The Powers that Be don't get in over their heads.