![]() ![]() I even had a get-together with other Losties to watch that finale. Part of that is because my first son was born as it was airing, but also because it was one of the few times I really cleared my schedule to watch something that wasn’t a football game. ![]() The final season was the only one I watched live, and it was a memorable time for me. Once it had its claws in me, it never let go. I didn’t get into it until after its fifth season, when my love of Battlestar Galactica had prepped me for serialized shows. My sister was a fan for a number of years before I was, and one of my best friends from college has never let me forget my skepticism when he told me that “The Constant” was one of the best episodes of sci-fi television he’d ever seen. I had many friends who were into it though. I didn’t watch any TV except The Simpsons at the time, and I was skeptical of any show that would require me to watch every episode to follow what was happening. Lost premiered ten years ago this week, at which time I didn’t have any interest. I view it as an expression of how nerd culture can wreck the things it loves, and how it destroys our ability to enjoy something for what it is. This attitude frustrates me endlessly, and not just because no one likes to be told something they love is garbage. It was this attitude that eventually drove Damon Lindeloff, one of Lost’s showrunners, to abandon Twitter, after he received a wave of nasty tweets from people who kept pointing to the Breaking Bad finale as the right way to finish a series. It continually tops the lists of the most disappointing finales, and I think some people have made it their mission to make sure Lost is remembered as a colossal disappointment. Of course, Lost’s legacy has been almost totally dominated by its divisive finale, one that served perhaps as a better capper to the final season than the entire series. I’m now about two or three episodes into season five on this, my third viewing of my favorite TV drama. I would go in dribs and drabs, burning through a few episodes then setting it aside for a while. But after rewatching the first season of the show for the third time while I wrote those recaps, I went ahead and continued my rewatch. I only ever made it as far as the end of season one, mostly due to exhaustion and the realization that I didn’t have a lot to add to what has to be the most heavily commented-upon show of my lifetime. If you’ve been with me since the early days, way back in 2010-2011, you might remember a little feature I ran called “Re-Lost.” At the time the intent was to go through the entire series of Lost and to give bi-weekly recaps of every episode. ![]()
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