The first time I watched "Lost", I thought "Wow, this show has great potential". The show was filled with many actors, all of which can act, a great story, and a brilliant idea of showing one persons background each episode. Unfortunately, the show isn't as great as it could be.
The story starts off with a passenger airplane from Australia, on it's way to the United States crashes on a mysterious island somewhere in the Sout Pacific. The crash leaves 48 people alive, the main characters being; Jack, a doctor on his way home after his father died in Australia. Charlie, a member of a one-hit-wonder band with a drug addiction. Kate, a prisoner. Syiad, an Iraqi soldier. Sawyer, a man that steals and plays everyone on the island in order to benefit himself. And, of course, Locke. Locke is the most interesting character with many secrets. On the first couple of days on the island, they figure out that there's something else living on the island... A gigantic polar bear. Yes folks, polar bear in the middle of the South Pacific. If that wasn't hard enough to swallow, we have to believe that there were other people living on the island BEFORE the plan crashed, a crazy french women, and a hatch in the middle on the jungle buried in the ground.
All of that could be looked past if it was executed right. Unfortunately, it doesn't. What we're left with is cliffhanger endings every episode, each episode unveiling some new secret on the island, and more character development. I have yet to see one secret revealed on the show. Most of them have been forgotten altogether, and will probably never be answered. Instead of intriguing the audience by answering one question and bring in another, we are left with a million unanswered questions, which is just annoying. Eventually, people are going to catch on, and the sooner the better. Hopefully, the audience will slowly stop watching, which will force the writers to answer some of the questions. Until then, more questions are going to come, and no answers will be resolved. And if that isn't annoying enough, we have the idiots at ABC show an episode or two, then a 3 week break before a new episode comes.
I want this show to get better, but if no answers are resolved before the season finale, I will not tune in next season. I'll stick with "24" for now.
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