Get LOST
I have been with LOST since the beginning. While other people refused to get sucked in, I was very much along for the ride. I liked the second season and was happy with Ana Lucia, Paolo, and Nikki (I still think people never gave them a fair chance). However, I'm finding myself dreading the new episodes that I tape on Thursday nights...much the same way that I dread having to watch Smallville. I think I finally realize why this is:
It's the fucking flash forwards! I think I was the only person that wasn't impressed by it at the end of third season...and I've grown to hate them more and more. I mean, I enjoy that they're a new way of telling the story. I think it's important that the creators are trying to keep things new and evolve the show, but the flash forwards have given away too much information. Granted, the show has a finite schedule and information needs to be forthcoming. However, the flash forwards have taken away the suspense. The recent episode where Jack gets sick and needs surgery bored me to tears. I knew he would survive. He makes it off the island. I knew this at the end of last season. All of the people freaking out, because the surgery was risky...all of Juliette's talk of him possibly ripping his stitches...whatever. He will survive. Aaron? Survives. Hurley? He makes it back to the camp and gets off the island. I do have some new questions (why does Kate have Aaron...why isn't Desmond one of the six if he made it to the boat...blah, blah, blah). I just really miss the show where anything could and did happen. Anyone could die in any given episode with no forewarning. That show is gone. We now have the Oceanic 6...give or take. And they have to get back. Fine. But please give me some suspense back.
It's the fucking flash forwards! I think I was the only person that wasn't impressed by it at the end of third season...and I've grown to hate them more and more. I mean, I enjoy that they're a new way of telling the story. I think it's important that the creators are trying to keep things new and evolve the show, but the flash forwards have given away too much information. Granted, the show has a finite schedule and information needs to be forthcoming. However, the flash forwards have taken away the suspense. The recent episode where Jack gets sick and needs surgery bored me to tears. I knew he would survive. He makes it off the island. I knew this at the end of last season. All of the people freaking out, because the surgery was risky...all of Juliette's talk of him possibly ripping his stitches...whatever. He will survive. Aaron? Survives. Hurley? He makes it back to the camp and gets off the island. I do have some new questions (why does Kate have Aaron...why isn't Desmond one of the six if he made it to the boat...blah, blah, blah). I just really miss the show where anything could and did happen. Anyone could die in any given episode with no forewarning. That show is gone. We now have the Oceanic 6...give or take. And they have to get back. Fine. But please give me some suspense back.