Dear Mr. Media,
The first season of Lost was awesome! I thought the characters were interesting and I loved that the Island had so many secrets. I didn’t like the second season quite as much, mainly because they spent so much time on The Tailies and then just killed them all off. This season seems even less interesting. I don’t like The Others and I guess I feel like they are taking time from characters I do like, such as Hurley, Claire and Charlie. Also, I keep getting confused about all of the plot points that seem to get picked up and then dropped again at random. I guess my question is, why does Lost suck so much now?
Decidedly Unhappy Lost Lover
Dear DULL,
You think the problem is with the show, but unfortunately the problem is with you. You made a lot of incorrect assumptions at the beginning of the show’s run. You expected the story to follow the lives of The Losties – the people who appeared in the first episode. That was a mistake. The Losties were what we in the business call a Red Herring. It turns out that the characters that started on the show were merely a clever diversion away from the truly important characters.
In the second season you made a similar mistake. You assumed that the new characters, The Tailies, would be important to the plot and you tried to care about them (even though most of them were uninteresting to you) merely because the show spent so much time on them. Once again you were sucked in by a Red Herring. The Tailies were merely a tool by which to introduce The Others.
Now, from all of this you would assume that The Others would be the key characters. Don’t make this mistake. The Others merely serve as a tool to introduce the truly important characters, which I have dubbed The Other Others. Keep your eyes open — they’re coming.
If all of this seems confusing, it is only because you the viewer have failed the show. Have you watched each episode multiple times, preferably taking notes? Have you read the online content, perhaps creating a database of information? Have you called the phone numbers? Have you read the analysis on all of the blogs? Have you watched the commercial shorts? If you haven’t done all of those things, and stupidly thought that watching the show would be enough, you have no one else to blame but yourself. So to answer your question, the show doesn’t suck, you do.
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