Is It Worth it Anymore?
Something once loved by many provided gathering place for friends to rejoice once a week in a confusing yet thrilling adventure, is now somehow not the same. I sit here watching LOST in almost a sad slumber feeling as though the show we once got so excited to watch, has disappeared. It left no good-bye note explaining why it would leave such devoted fans. But, nonetheless it is not quite the same.
Has it disappeared behind numerous plot twists and questions unanswered? Or did the 13 week hiatus just prove to all fans that we actually can live without, dare I say it, Lost?
The mystery has held us or rather tethered us to our chairs for 3 years now, and each week we tune in like trained soldiers forced to endure another numbing hour that holds even more questions unanswered and unexplainable plots. We hope to learn even more about the characters when we watch flashbacks to the pasts of said characters only to now even know less. At the beginning it seemed to make sense. There was an island, these people had their own lives completely ripped away and changed forever. But now these lives are living in some alternate universe far from the realities we all know and love. Are these flashbacks just memories to give our hopeless castaways something to remember before they all inevitably die?
At this point it is safe to say, I no more or less care about what may happen. It is a sad fact that LOST may have just buzz-killed the best thing we had going since the world was introduced to reality shows. And look how that turned out. Now everyone's a celebrity. But, regardless of the ups and downs and complete roller coaster rides this show throws at us, can we completely shut it down? A part of us still wants to know why, and most of all why. The anticipation and speculation keeps us wondering and perhaps just enough so to keep us tuning in.
The writers may not have the way of revealing what we desperately need to know, but maybe they hit the nail on the head by confusing us into wanting to know why. We may be angry and upset that we have been tricked into watching so loyally, but in the end, the writers won the war if we can't turn away regardless of how insane the show may have evolved into.
Has it disappeared behind numerous plot twists and questions unanswered? Or did the 13 week hiatus just prove to all fans that we actually can live without, dare I say it, Lost?
The mystery has held us or rather tethered us to our chairs for 3 years now, and each week we tune in like trained soldiers forced to endure another numbing hour that holds even more questions unanswered and unexplainable plots. We hope to learn even more about the characters when we watch flashbacks to the pasts of said characters only to now even know less. At the beginning it seemed to make sense. There was an island, these people had their own lives completely ripped away and changed forever. But now these lives are living in some alternate universe far from the realities we all know and love. Are these flashbacks just memories to give our hopeless castaways something to remember before they all inevitably die?
At this point it is safe to say, I no more or less care about what may happen. It is a sad fact that LOST may have just buzz-killed the best thing we had going since the world was introduced to reality shows. And look how that turned out. Now everyone's a celebrity. But, regardless of the ups and downs and complete roller coaster rides this show throws at us, can we completely shut it down? A part of us still wants to know why, and most of all why. The anticipation and speculation keeps us wondering and perhaps just enough so to keep us tuning in.
The writers may not have the way of revealing what we desperately need to know, but maybe they hit the nail on the head by confusing us into wanting to know why. We may be angry and upset that we have been tricked into watching so loyally, but in the end, the writers won the war if we can't turn away regardless of how insane the show may have evolved into.