Lost...

[b0redom]

If only I'd listened.

119 hours I'll never get back.

This, started off with an excellent premise and then descended into utter tripe.

 

[northernladyuk]

This, started off with an excellent premise and then descended into utter tripe.

That sounds naggingly like something else I can't quite put my finger on.

 

[pr1]

Did anything happen in the end?

it was all a dream

 

[TestMangler]

it was all a dream

FFS. You need to watch it again, or read the directors explanation if you were incapable of working it out for yourself.

 

[VectraMan]

Lost is wierd. I think it's kind of crap, but at the same time I'm completely hooked.

What Younger Me Said.

I binged watched it all again about 2 years ago, and got hooked all over again. It's fair to say the last couple of years got a bit convoluted, and the end was a bit "meh", but still one of my favourite ever TV shows.

 

[original PM]

This, started off with an excellent premise and then descended into utter tripe.

The Walking Dead

Used to be about smacking zombies

is now a soap opera

 

[VectraMan]

The Walking Dead

Used to be about smacking zombies

is now a soap opera

I thought that about the first series of Walking Dead. 5 minutes of zombie action followed by 40 minutes of everyone talking about their feelings.

 

[TestMangler]

The Walking Dead

Used to be about smacking zombies

is now a soap opera

The story is pretty much written though, as it's based on graphic novels (quite closely so far).

A lot of these septic-tank series things suffer from early success and TV channels usually decide after a couple of seasons that it's working really well and ask writers to flesh out and extend. That happened to Breaking bad just after the middle and there was a season or a season and a half that were kinda put there to push the end out by a year or so.

 

[d000hg]

The Walking Dead

Used to be about smacking zombies

is now a soap opera

I thought that about the first series of Walking Dead. 5 minutes of zombie action followed by 40 minutes of everyone talking about their feelings.

TWD was never about the zombies... that's rather the point.

I'm a fan but S1 in particular was not about smacking zombies - a whole episode would go by without anything happening and somehow that was still scary.

The first couple of seasons were also like children's cartoons compared to where we are now - I don't know that's a good change since gratuitous gore and violence gets a bit dull.

I think we're supposed to view Rick as some sort of hero but the longer we go the more he just seems to be a dick who keeps ruining everything!

 

[d000hg]

The story is pretty much written though, as it's based on graphic novels (quite closely so far).

A lot of these septic-tank series things suffer from early success and TV channels usually decide after a couple of seasons that it's working really well and ask writers to flesh out and extend. That happened to Breaking bad just after the middle and there was a season or a season and a half that were kinda put there to push the end out by a year or so.

And then ironically they could have spun the last season or half-season out into at least another season... it was like they dawdled in the middle then were in a rush to get it over.