I think the show works much better in marathon viewings, personally. Storylines that seemed interminably long on weekly TV, stretched even further by ludicrous hiatus scheduling, flow much better on DVD.
Agreed. I didn't start watching it until fairly late in the game (about a year and a half ago) and so I watched much of the show on DVD - only season 5 did I watch 'live' as it was airing.
I am totally convinced that marathon style is the absolute best way to watch this show - especially if you don't have a great memory. I saw many things while watching marathon style (I've done one 'original' watch and one complete re-watch) that I NEVER would have connected if I'd watched this show while it was airing and that was it. This show is like a giant jigsaw puzzle...they work on sections at a time that only later get slapped together into a larger section of the puzzle. So it's much better to see the entire show end to end in a few weeks/months than it is to draw it out over all of these years.
LOST is also one of those shows that is almost as good on rewatch as it is on first viewing for that very reason - you see alot more of the connections between people and events on rewatch. I was really surprised at how much I'd missed during the first viewings!
I have an unhealthy addiction to LOST.
I am right there with you. I can NOT get enough LOST.![]()
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I even joined a LOST board to talk about it, because our LOST forum is so slow (and I'm not usually one to join other scifi boards - 'one is enough', has pretty much my motto for the past several years). I like talking about the episodes when they air like we do here, I guess...but I love talking about all the theories, etc...and now I've found a place where I can do that and am very happy there. Plus, I don't feel quite as odd for being so obsessed...because most people there are even more obsessed than I am.

For me, this is by a long, long margin the best show of the decade. Of course, they still have opportunity to screw that up....because the ending, of course, is critical.
But I have faith in the Island.
