Finally started watching "Lost".

[PKTrekGirl]

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.

X 2.

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.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm about midway through season 4 now and I have to say it is not nearly as entertaining as seasons 1-3.

I've got no issues with the flash back stories but the flash forward ones are just too confusing.

Not really caring for splitting the cast up as well.

This guy was a bad guy but now he is a good guy but he's not really a good guy because he is just pretending to be a good gut but he may not really be a bad guy he is just pretending to be a bad guy...UUGGHH!!!

I wasn't a huge fan of Season 4 either. I mean, it was okay, but meh. I found myself asking, "Why do we need so many new characters?!"

 

[PKTrekGirl]

^ Still, some of the best episodes of the entire show. I mean, you gotta love The Constant and The Shape of Things To Come! Those are both top-notch episodes!

And Cabin Fever and The Economist were pretty doggone good too.

And I really liked There's No Place Like Home...I mean, what an ending!

But I guess to each his own.....

 

[RoJoHen]

I mean, it was fine, but I enjoyed Season 3 so much more.

 

[Agent Richard07]

I thought season 4 was and still is the best season.

Spoiler: Season 4

I loved the flashforwards and the buildup to how the Oceanic 6 got off the island.

 

[bigdaddy]

They aren't called Flash Forwards or Flash Backs, they are just called Flashes but the writing staff.

 

[Emher]

This guy was a bad guy but now he is a good guy but he's not really a good guy because he is just pretending to be a good gut but he may not really be a bad guy he is just pretending to be a bad guy...UUGGHH!!!

Oh you mean Ben? I love Ben! Best character on the show!

 

[Trekker4747]

Lost is the most frustrating show on TV. I agree it's probably best watched in marathon sessions. I'm going through Season 5 myself right now -as I didn't see it during the original run after about half-through as I just figured I'd wait until the DVDs and watch the season in a week-

I may watch S6 off tv, but likely on DVR so I can FF through the commercials.

 

[TheSeeker]

I watched the first two seasons on DVD and then had to watch the following season in first run and I have to agree, it is much better watching them in a marathon session. I'm really looking forward to the final season, especially since this'll be the first season I get to watch in HD!

 

[TheGodBen]

I'm about midway through season 4 now and I have to say it is not nearly as entertaining as seasons 1-3.

I've got no issues with the flash back stories but the flash forward ones are just too confusing.

The flash forwards seemed a little gimmicky to me at first, but they are very important for the future direction of the show so you need to pay attention to them. They are confusing, but as the season progresses they begin to make sense, and it is all cleared up by the end of season 5.

The first half of season 4 was okay, but it doesn't really take off until The Shape of Things to Come. The writers strike caused the second half of the season to be cut short by a few episodes, so everything moves at breakneck speed in the back-half of the season, and I feel that's one of the reasons why the season is so well regarded by fans, including myself.

This guy was a bad guy but now he is a good guy but he's not really a good guy because he is just pretending to be a good gut but he may not really be a bad guy he is just pretending to be a bad guy...UUGGHH!!!

Whoever you think is the villain of the show probably isn't. (No, it's not Hurley.) You probably don't even know who the good guy is either.

As for Ben, he's great. His episode in season 4 is fantastic, one of the best in the whole show.

 

[Amasov]

I got into the show right after the first season was released on DVD. I wanted to watch it from the start, but I remember I was working the nights that it was on and DVR wasn't as widespread as it is today.

I bought the first season in the summer of 2005. I sat down and watched it in less than two days. My roommate saw that I was in my room the whole time with the door shut tight. I dont' think I came out until I got through with the whole season and he says to me, "Dude, what have you been doing in there?!"

".... watching Lost. Just saw the whole season. All 24 hour long episodes."

"WHAT?!"

Lucky for me, I didn't have to wait too too long before the second season premiered on ABC because after that first season finale, I was dying to see what was coming next.

 

[RoJoHen]

I fucking love my PS3 and Netflix. I'm finally getting caught up with Season 5! The first few episodes, which I had already watched a couple months ago, are kind of slow, but starting with "316" things have really started to pick up!

 

[auntiehill]

^By the time you hit season 4, you will be flipping out.


DAMN, I love LOST. It's one of the best shows on TV--if not THE best (well, along with Dexter, that is).

 

[SlyCardie]

^By the time you hit season 4, you will be flipping out.


DAMN, I love LOST. It's one of the best shows on TV--if not THE best (well, along with Dexter, that is).

Seems like there are two camps though. Either you'll be disappointed or you'll be totally engrossed.

 

[RoJoHen]

Well, while Season 5 started out a little slow, I have to say that it totally kicked my ass the rest of the way. I watched 12 episodes in a row without stopping.

 

[mirandafave]

Head spins just thinking about Season 5 - but in real excited flip out fashion but confusion - and rewatching Season 4 at present it is funny to see how much it seems to be laying down the groundwork for what would happen in it. Damon and Abrams say as much in the commentary for THE CONSTANT. Brilliant stuff. Marathon sessions are great for viewing it - though it pains the bladder to sit and wait for such a duration - I know I could hit the pause button!

Mind I just love/hate the anticipation of an episode airing and then the killer wait after a freaking climax for the next episode and the running around the house calling out Oh my God! Oh My God! Oh my God! Oh My God! - I mean - sitting back and waiting calmly but with eagerness for next week's episode.

 

[PKerr]

I have 5 episodes left in season 5 and I have to say it is an improvement over season 4.

With the way I have marathoned the whole show up to this point I don't know how the hell I'm gonna be able to watch season six week to week.
I'll go nuts!!
I don't know how many times I told myself "I can't just sit in front of the TV and watch this show" but then the way the episode ends
I'll say "I'll just watch one more" but then I end up watching two or three more after that.

I can honestly say there aren't many shows I've done that with.
I think I can officially call myself a Lost fan.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Very nice. Now remember that not only do we have to wait a week between episodes, but we've been waiting 9 months since the last season ended to watch the new one...absolute torture.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

^By the time you hit season 4, you will be flipping out.


DAMN, I love LOST. It's one of the best shows on TV--if not THE best (well, along with Dexter, that is).

I'm having the same dilemma. Can't choose!

God bless Dexter for setting up what will no doubt be an utterly kick-ass S5 because with Lost ending, I'm gonna need the morale boost by next Sept.

After the final fade-out (Jack's eyeball is my vote for final image, with the explosion of the entire universe as a distinct possibility), I say we do a Big Frakkin Re-Watch of All Six Seasons. Who's with me?

 

[RoJoHen]

With the way I have marathoned the whole show up to this point I don't know how the hell I'm gonna be able to watch season six week to week.:

Don't even try. It's way too hard, and honestly, not as fun. This show is just so much better when you can marathon through it.

My advice: Finish Season 5, and then just stop. Then have another marathon right before the Season 6 DVDs come out and watch the whole show from start to finish.