Let me be more specific. My old roomate kept bugging me to watch it, cause he said it was so good. I was like eh, it cant be that good. I watched two episodes in the middle of the season and it didnt do anything for me. Another person told me that they saw the whole season over a weekend, and I thought they were crazy. He let me the discs. So I was bored, and I had the whole season on disc, and started watching them from the start...after about 4 episodes, I was totally hooked, and had to watch the next one. I ended up watching the whole season in a weekend. Its that good. I told my gf to watch it to, she told me "eh, I saw a few episodes once, didnt seem special". I gave her the discs, she started watching it, and she saw the whole season in a weekend, and now she's hooked too and has repeatedly thanked me for giving it to her in the first place
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I have tivo, and lost is the ONLY show that pwns me so much that I actually watch it when its on, and sit through the commericials.
A lot of people dont "get it" though. Its not about what happens. Very little happens every episode, but thats fine. There are two main aspects to lost that make it so interesting. Firstly, the characters. Its what the show is really about. Which I why I say you need a soul to appreciate it. Once you see a bunch of flashbacks, and start to see the reason why the people are the way they are, and how theyre all connected in a strange way, not to mention the characters are just in general interesting, you feel for them and actually care what happens to them. The actual plot is secondary to the character development.
But as far as the plot goes, its a mystery. Half of the fun is trying to figure out what is going to happen, and what is going on. A brain is useful for this. If you had heard the wild ideas about what was in the hatch and what was going on, and then we find out what it actually was. Its good stuff. We still dont know what the deal is with the monsters, who the others are, if the people chasing them now really are the same others as the one that took walt, what the deal is with the numbers, where the french woman went, what is this dharma initiative REALLY, on and on. Every episode you get one more little piece, and you know that little bit more. Some people go to great lengths to analyze the hell out of this stuff.
Personally, I shut the TV off as soon as the episode is over so I dont hear next weeks preview. Its more fun that way. I'm going to watch it anyway. Apparently everyone in the world knew what was going to happen last episode but me.
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