Comments on: Lost in translation https://www.jenniferestep.com/lost-in-translation/ New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/lost-in-translation/#comment-72 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:35:00 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=65#comment-72 Don’t get me wrong. I still love a lot of things about the show, including the flashbacks and Sawyer’s quips. I just think they’ve made it a little too weird, out-there, and convaluted with the hatches and the Others.

What also troubles me is the overall story arc. I’ve read some interviews with Abrams and the show’s producers, and I just don’t think they have a solid plan in mind or know where they’re going with the show.

Like the monster. We saw the moster a lot the first season, but not so much last year. It was like it just disappeared. Or the producers/writers couldn’t figure out how to explain it and decided to make it go away. And we haven’t seen the French chick in forever.

What I think would be really interesting to see, like in Season 5 or 6, is them getting off the island and trying to fit back in with regular society.

And it’s not so much about the show jumping the shark as it is about the limited payoff. Sure, every episode I learn more about the featured character, but not so much about the mysteries on the island.

This is why I like the structure of shows like Buffy and Angel and Veronica Mars much better. You have your season-long bad guy (or several bad guys this year on VM), but the story arc is wrapped up by the end of the year. There’s a sense of closure and moving ahead, which I just haven’t been getting from Lost this year.

]]> By: Brian https://www.jenniferestep.com/lost-in-translation/#comment-69 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:36:47 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=65#comment-69 t even read TV Guide or Entertainment Weekly because of the possibility of finding out too much information about a series I am watching. I am content to allow the series to be revealed to me as the producers see fit. I think that your view of Lost and Veronica Mars has been tainted by the “Jump the Shark” phenomenon. It seems that more and more viewers are not able to simply enjoy the television experience. A race appears to be taking place among viewers to be the first to declare that a series has “Jumped the Shark”. Thus they are ruining the great journey that a television series can be.]]> Lost is not lost. I find the layers and depth of the series to be a great plus. With so many crime dramas that wrap their stories up nicely in an hour, I find the wide ranging complexities of Lost to be refreshing change to network television.

I do everything possible to avoid spoilers. I don’t even read TV Guide or Entertainment Weekly because of the possibility of finding out too much information about a series I am watching. I am content to allow the series to be revealed to me as the producers see fit.

I think that your view of Lost and Veronica Mars has been tainted by the “Jump the Shark” phenomenon. It seems that more and more viewers are not able to simply enjoy the television experience. A race appears to be taking place among viewers to be the first to declare that a series has “Jumped the Shark”. Thus they are ruining the great journey that a television series can be.

]]> By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/lost-in-translation/#comment-68 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:04:20 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=65#comment-68 That’s exactly my point! Now, they’re not even trying to get off the island anymore. They’re too busy running around exploring hatches and stuff. Not to mention the fact that food conveniently falls from the sky, taking away their struggle to survive.

I just wish they would wrap up the Others storyline and have Sayid kill the monster. Then, we could get back to the important things — learning more about the characters and their motivations.

]]> By: spyscribbler https://www.jenniferestep.com/lost-in-translation/#comment-67 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:29:08 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=65#comment-67 Hmmm, see, the charm of Lost was always “What if your plane crashed on a deserted island and you were stuck there?”

Mixing in monsters just doesn’t work for me, especially this late in the game. It somehow violates the promise of the series for me. But then, I only watched the first season and a bit of the second.

It is addicting!

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