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I watched the first few minutes of “Lost” and said, “nah.” I’ve been wrapped up in other shows. During the first few seasons of “Supernatural” I could hardly think or talk about anything else. I went to Jensen Ackles fansites and looked at pictures and read articles, bought a mug and a t-shirt. I even bought the first two seasons on DVD. When it was threatened with cancellation after 2 seasons, I wrote emails to the pertinent people at the network and some sponsors. However, I think the show has gone downhill. I watch it just to see them fight monsters, but the overarching plot line is stupid. So, even though it is still on the air, I miss it. I miss the good seasons.

I thought Lost started to suck after the first couple of seasons.

Dexter is the show I’ll really miss when the series is over. Next season can’t come soon enough.

I am the same way! I didn’t continue to theorize after it was over though, since I hated the ending, like most fans. But I’ve just started re-watching it with my friends, only one of whom has ever seen it before. I’ve got a bunch of my friends hooked!

I watched Lost. I still love rewatching episodes on Netflix. I’m fairly invested in Gossip Girl though. As a reader of the books, the show greatly intrigues me. Call it trash tv, I don’t care. I love it.

I loved LOST! I miss that show too!

I LOVE LOST!

@lewk@xanga -

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Dexter is the show I’ll really miss when the series is over. Next season can’t come soon enough.”
Dexter sucked after season 1.

@whyzat@xanga - It’s because it’s been on for 7 seasons, it’s a standard North American 22-episode slotted show, and the showrunner changed. Gamble brought it back to a more episodic type of storytelling, very “monster of the week,” which I feel was the poorest aspect of the show in the beginning. After buying season 6 on DVD (which I felt was, for me, the first weak season) and rewatching it all at once, I found that I liked it almost as much as the old stuff. I assume the same will happen with season 7. But I do hope that they cancel the show by this season. Most shows go a bit downhill past season 5-6. Very episodic TV usually can go on for much longer because you don’t have as much overarching mythos bogging it down. Shows with half-season arcs also tend to be okay with more seasons, like Buffy – I started watching Buffy when I was like, 7, so I may be biased on that one. And if a show tends to change things up a good deal with characters, then it tends to be able to last longer without feeling like it’s gone downhill; Skins, Doctor Who, Primeval, and Misfits are ones I can think of at the top of my head. Plus, they have shorter seasons, so you don’t really get many (if any) filler episodes like you do with most American shows. 

As for Lost, I watched the first season, stopped, and didn’t bother catching up. I’m glad I didn’t. 

My girls, their friends, & I would throw a Lost party every week when it was on! We LOVED this show sooo much!!Every once in awhile someone will say, “I miss Sawyer! Sigh.” 

@Celestial_Teapot@xanga - I didn’t feel like that was the case. I wasn’t a fan of the second season but I really really did love season 3, season 4 was fine and season 5? Okay in my book but I’m not sure about season 6. Haven’t gotten the chance to watch it yet. 

@ashleynicole - You’re right. Anything more than 2 seasons, the show itself ends up sucking. Honestly I really like the korean kind of broadcasting where they only show one season of a show and if it is popular enough there might be a season 2. I think this system actually makes the airing of shows much more organized and more quality stuff goes out (sometimes bad quality goes out but not that often as I’ve found out). 

OP:

Not a fan of Lost though. I’ve been hooked on shows and I am. I’m currently engrossed in The Moon That Embraces the Sun, Dream High 2, Sherlock and Downton Abbey to name a few.

@Hinase@xanga - From Season 2 I did enjoy Ms. “Pardon my tits.”

I know that many of the Dexter Season 1 writers didn’t remain with the show. It just seemed to me that much of the character development and personality of Dexter wasn’t kept through Season 2.

But I agree, Dexter def. seemed to pick up again after the second season.

@ashleynicole -

“As for Lost, I watched the first season, stopped, and didn’t bother catching up. I’m glad I didn’t.”

How would you know what you’ve missed if you’ve missed it?

@Hinase@xanga - Whoa, WHOA, only two seasons? I need a bit more than that! I think that if shows aired 6-13 episodes per season instead of the usual 20-22, it would work a lot better for fans because there’d be less of a chance of getting bogged down by filler that can turn viewers away for lack of an interesting arc. Maybe that’s why I keep checking out British shows. I think some shows do fine after 2 seasons, but it’s more of the fan comparing the newest stuff with the original programming that they fell in love with. Much like how people usually feel that the first album they hear from an artist is the best. 

@Celestial_Teapot@xanga - I was confused with what I did watch. It was sorta interesting, but not interesting enough to make me actually want to catch up. I’d catch bits and pieces sometimes and just wasn’t into it. And I’ve heard a lot of people were pissed with how it ended. 

@Celestial_Teapot – It certainly did and I didn’t know the original writers weren’t there but it makes sense. Season 2 really felt different and now I know why.

@ashleynicole – That makes sense but I guess it depends on how tightly they spin the story within the show. I usually prefer shows that aren’t on going in seasons because the quality to me goes down. I’ve already seen it happen to a lot of shows that I love. I think one to two seasons can be good enough for a lot of shows and it kicks out filler. I really loathe filler in a lot of shows unless the story is going away from the original source material and becoming something different. But it depends really on the show.

@Hinase@xanga - As long as a show can maintain proper character development, especially by changing up characters (new or killing some off), while also minimizing filler as much as possible and refraining from ignoring a larger arc, then I enjoy getting more seasons. I think that some shows strike a good balance between being more episodic but still having seasonal arcs. Primeval comes to mind, and some of the Doctor Who series as well. Sanctuary did a good job of that as well, although season 3 (which had double the episodes) had more filler – at least the filler didn’t bother me! I really like the way Skins approaches things in terms of changing characters every 2 years. Doctor Who does that every few years as well. So it helps to keep things fresh even if they utilize similar storylines, since it’s from a different perspective. Although I don’t like how Skins has so far killed off a character every generation (so from every new cast). At least this time they did it at the START of the season instead of as the finale. Jeeze. 

I do think though that with TV shows I love, I tend to ignore things that might bother some people. I can’t help it, I just become so emotionally invested in things that I am able to forgive their faults!

Oh god, I don’t think I can ever watch Lost again (I washed the whole series 2-3 times) after the finale. It’s just too sad. I miss it so much that I hate it for ending.

@ashleynicole - Yeah, but unfortunately most shows do end up losing that character development and believable storylines/arcs and they just jump shark after awhile. I can obviously ignore some things but…if it becomes too much of a problem, I stop watching. But like as you say, if they continue down the good path of believable storylines, not too much filler etc;, then yeah, I’m more than ready for more seasons of any shows I love ;D 

it was so black or white with lost. you were either obsessed or you watched two seconds and you were like “bah it’s stupid i don’t get it.” i happen to be one of the obsessed. like you, never had i ever dedicated myself to a television program; i thought such a thing wasn’t possible. but with lost, i did research!! i mean hardcore i was soooo into it, i had a lost notebook, i did research on certain books and history and egypt and constellations and philosophy and symbols and even the bible for fucks sake. haha. i was devastated that it ended because i was like, “now what.” lost can never be topped. 

@Hinase@xanga - I can’t just stop watching. When I start watching a TV show and decide to buy it on DVD, I’m basically in it for life. It’s a commitment for me, as lame as it sounds! I basically am either a casual watcher without any investment in what’s happening (so random sitcoms when nothing is on) or I go all the way and become totally involved in the world of the show. Thankfully most of the shows I watch are sci-fi and fantasy, so there’s far more places to explore. I always feel like sci-fi and fantasy shows are more realistic and believable as well because of the unreal stuff that happens. It’s all usually used as a means of discussing a real issue that all of us can in some way relate to, and helps us achieve a bit of distance from it instead of tackling it in the way that dramas would (ie melodramatic).

@ashleynicole - I know how you feel about that. I get obsessed easily with a show. Lol 

@Hinase@xanga - I have… currently 25 shows that I’d label as being obsessed with to some degree or another. LOL. For Christmas and my birthday, I pretty much only got DVDs. And I’m still hoping to check out new shows when I get the chance. It’s a sickness I tell ya!

I loved everything about that show. My only qualm was the ending. to me it just didnt make sense, felt like they were rushed and threw the end together. I did like aspects of it but not the overall premise (of the end). Still, the show was great.. they dont make many shows like that anymore. I liked HEROES in the first season but then it dragged. I am also a fan  of SUPERNATURAL but after 5 seaons it also started to drag. Sometimes I feel like it would be better to shoot the horse (the show) rather than watch it suffer and die (like Heroes and Supernatural). Oh, I also feel the same about THE OFFICE somewhere after seasons 3 or 4. I always remember a part of a movie called “SECRET WINDOW” with johnnh Depp. He is triyng to write and reads what he wrote and knows it is poor. He says: “what do we do with bad writing” and deletes the paragrpah. TV shows could learn from that

I am a fan! I even dreamt that Sayid was a dwarf (I have no idea) and he was my lover along with Sawyer. Oh, yes. Haha I was pretty obsessed.  

Also, not happy about the ending. I wanted something… I dunno, more fantastic! Something more I dunno, either even more mysterious or more revealing. A semi explanation to all the bloody stuff that went on, that people (sites?) like DARKUFO wrote and wrote about would have sufficed though! Anyway, I still loved the entire thing.  

oh how I miss LOST!  Unlike most people I actually really liked the ending.

LOVED LOST! I had never cried so much about a TV show until LOST. It was the one evening show my mother and I could have for ourselves and chat about nonstop. I loved how it made me pay attention to detail and make my brain think. The themes were also pretty powerful and thought-provoking.

Admittedly, I haven’t seen the last season yet (terrible, I know) because I was in college then and I never watched TV, so I have yet to rent it. I’ll probably have a LOST marathon (for the third time) soon and then get the last season.

NIP/TUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOST was pretty amazing as well!