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Things may just be a little bit more exciting on this island right now, than on the Lost island. (Why, even Matthew Fox is coming to town.) Last week the Daily News had a piece on Lost fans losing interest in the show.
Last week's episode was a bit boring, but is the show really going in circles - just like Hurley in his old VW bus? As the Dailly News suggests, that "scene could not have been a more obvious metaphor for the direction of the show this season. That is, unless Vincent the dog was shown chasing his tail." One comment in the article seemed to hit the nail on the head: "I felt like [Wednesday] night's episode was a rerun of 'Gilligan' Island, I was waiting for Gilligan and the Professor to build a new engine (for the VW bus) out of coconuts and Mrs. Howell's jewelry."
Message boards came alive after the episode, one fan even posted: "Taken 'Lost' off of Tivo. I got a DVR solely for 'Lost.'" The show started with 16 million viewers, the second season went to 15.5 and upon it's return a few weeks ago it was down to 14.5 million and is now at 13 million.
Looks like tonight the castaways find a house with kittens and horses outside (preview here).
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Why, even Michael Fox is coming to town.
Great, I loved Back to the Future!
The show started with 16 million viewers, the second season went to 15.5 and upon it's return a few weeks ago it was down to 14.5 million and is now at 13 million.
HOLY SHIT ONLY 13 MILLION THEY MAY AS WELL CANCEL IT
this has been so overdone in the news lately. boring.
Agree with Poster #2. It's still the biggest 10pm show on Television.
The ratings "crash" to 12.8 million people for the Feb 14th was so overblown as to be ridiculous. If only there was some explanation as to what part of the target demographic was doing on that evening....
There are 12 million televisions in old folks homes, and they dont get to choose what to watch is the only plausible reason that number hasnt gone to zero. The show is done, over, dead, Barbarro'ed, etc.
this show is going to be canceled!!!! hahahah. serves em right. I told my friends to not watch it cause it would be X-files and it would end before it made sense. They painted themselves into a corner and now they are paying the price. It doesn't matter if it's the biggest show at 10pm. the fact of the matter is that it's the most expensive show to produce so it's ratings don't justify the cost. Think about it logically, the only explanation for the island is either ghosts, a figment of the imagination, government conspiracy or aliens. All the answers would be retarded. Everyone wants a logical answer but Lost won't give it to you.
Lost would have been better if they just wrapped things up in 12 to 24 episodes and moved on. They lost me in the second season.
ABC just wants to milk it for all it is worth.
The whole on and off the schedule thing is something that ABC has done in the past with popular shows like NYPD Blue and it just gets viewers in the habit of watching something else and then they forget about ABC's show. Silly Mickey Mouse scheduling!
The people who are getting tired of Lost were not real fans in the first place. The show isn't "24" and the plot isn't going to move along that fast, it's a character-driven show, the plot is meted out at a slow pace.
Perhaps audiences used to "24' or "Law & Order' where everything's wrapped up in one show, will be impatient with Lost.
But I'll stick with it till the end.
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Matthew Fox? Who cares? But I'll keep watching to get my Evangeline Lilly fix.
Lost often frustrates me with its 2 steps forwards 20 steps back approach to revealing anything new, but in the end it is a great show with fascinating characters. I love the way that their past lives are continuously revealed and the characters stories become much deeper.
Lost is one of the only shows I have ever watched religiously, and that is saying something. I just hope that the writers actually know where they are going with it, which i sometimes honestly do wonder about.
Lost is just as good as it always has been. Most of it's critics sound like people who point out small flaws on a Supermodel to try and prove she not beautiful.
Plotlines of 24 are wrapped up in one episode? What? Do you know the concept of the show?
>>>Plotlines of 24 are wrapped up in one episode?
Sorry if the syntax is in error. I was referring to Law & Order there.
I've watched this show since the pilot and will keep watching until the end. I just hope the answers we get in the end are more satisfying than what we got from X-Files.
I like Heroes. I hope that show keeps up the good work. As for Lost, I still watch, but only because it's programmed into my DVR, I'm too lazy to delete it, and you never know... something might happen.
13 million viewers is still a lot of people, yes?
Lost barely answers one question/mystery per episode.
Then creates 12 more questions per episode.
Not enough payoff.
That is why lost is losing viewers. The lack of story payoff.
I thought lost was great, and then I started watching heros. Heros really has put lost to shame, but season one of lost is still amazing.
Before I had even seen Lost I was impressed by the fact that it could juggle so many characters. Lost amazed me with its ability to juggle such a large cast without marginalizing any of them. Nearly every episode managed to include most of the cast even while delving into the backstory of one in particular. Characters developed individually, but the show never lost track of the rest of the cast.
That was then.
These days the show has so many dangling plot threads that no one can keep track of them. It's made worse by the fact that this season months have gone by without central characters appearing. Where every show used to bounce between plot lines, advancing them all even a little bit, now it plods through single plot lines for weeks, occasionally reminding the viewer of others that were left hanging months before. Three weeks ago, at the beginning of the Desmond episode, Sayid and Locke were giving the news about Eko. They were just getting back to a plot from an episode that aired in October! And then it wasn't mentioned again for the rest of the episode.
In the meantime, after killing off great characters who seemed deeply intertwined with the larger story, they keep packing in new random people who we're allegedly supposed to care about.
And none of that even gets to the fact that they have not resolved a single thing. Ever.
Season 1 was the best. It's been downhill ever since. I'm done with Lost.
BOO!
i disagree. last weeks episode was so reminiscent of the first season where nothing really happened anyways.
its not about what is going to happen, its about what has already happened. calm down people.
It amazes me how people have negative things to say about a show they don't even watch. There are so many channels on television these days; why waste your breath (or finger pads?)?
People who have gotten fed up with Lost are the same group who got frustrated with Twin Peaks. Some of us like vagueness, using our imaginations, and unsolvable mysteries. Those of us will keep watching, and enjoying Lost until it's over. Then we'll watch something else. It's not a big deal. It's just TV.
Personally, I enjoy the Hurley character, and I liked the episode. If that makes me a bad person or something, I guess I'm okay with that.
Ratings schmatings.
Neilsen ratings don't take into account people who Tivo/DVR the show and watch it later or those who buy the season and download/watch it at their convenience.
Like me.
I love the show and have watched every episode, but this season has downright sucked. Last week's was - in my opinion - the weakest episode they've ever aired.
I'll more than likely watch the rest of this season, but if things continue down this route, I probably won't care much about next season.
As much as I have the hots for Juliet...
first off i thought the gothamist is a blog about New York, so why is this even a topic.
Second, the show is for smart people who actually want to think and the writers dont have to hit you over the head with every obvious explanation.
Use your brain a little bit and enjoy the best writing on television. otherwise go watch wife swap or worse, Heroes.
the show is not for smart people. Smart People would not watch the show cause they'd figure out they were being duped and that there is no actual plot but plot devices meant to keep the audience tuned into next week until it was canceled leaving the audience gypped. It's like finding a map to a treasure box and finally digging it up and finding another map to another treasure box and then digging that up and finding another map to a treasure box and so on.... The people who write lost are so very cruel. Remember ALias!
the reason lost was such a good show in the past seasons was because it was about telling a great story... now the show blows because it's about nothing more than pleasing the network (extending storylines indefinitely, adding physically attractive new characters who have no acting abilities, etc.) or about pleasing fans who do noting but complain... such is life in tv land... everything decent gets cancelled, and if it doesn't, it turns to crap.
What I like about the show is that while most shows are on hiatus (again) we can count on seeing new episodes every week. Lost may not be as good as the first season, but it is still better than mostly everything on TV right now.
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My wife and I watch Lost every week. But ever since the the Desmond traveling through time episode we have only continued watching because we've gone this far so may as well see this thing through to the end. If there is an end that is. I love Lost but this show is dead on its feet and the producers need to make season four the last. Seriously!