Touches You

Absolutely Fantastic

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I have no words. No movie or tv show has ever touched me deeply like LOST has. I could go on an write a 6 page essay as to why LOST is the greatest tv show ever made. It rarely ever happens that massively popular Tv show like LOST lives up to all expectations. And yes I'm one of the few who loved the ending :)

It's a very fulfilling series, with a tempting, complex storyline that unveils itself at a bludgeoning pace, slowly at times leaving you in dire need for answers and rapidly at times, throwing so many answers at you that you haven't even asked a question for yet. The timeline is harsh and unforgiving, you will have to wait for answers and when they come, you may not be satisfied, but you will and -I can't stress this enough-, WANT MORE. Once you start, you really can't stop, it will navigate you through a sea of cliffhangers, masterfully crafted to give you just enough info to hook so you would stick through with it, not enough to numb you and bore you, just enough to make you want more. Deep characters and great pace of character development. Everything you would wish for in a show, not to mention how compelling and addictive the show is. Just watch it.

I started watching as the second season had already been released and I was hearing critics complaining about the quality that was fading, which I could not understand at the time so I was hooked up by each episode of season 1 who had excellent cliffhangers and was introducing us to each character in a very interesting way. Until I also reached the middle of season 2 and got confused, and then got completely lost. Believing that the writers had a plan to give a sense to everything at some point, I kept on watching season 3 but with a much less attentive eye, until I simply gave up trying to understand what the writers were getting at. As far as I could see, this series fully deserve its title.

In a word: yes. This series is most definitely lost. Where to even begin? How about...second/third rate actors. Matthew Fox is a nobody/poor man's Adam Sandler with a Tom Cruise/SAVE THE WORLD KNOW-IT-ALL complex (although the latter is on the writers). Maggie Grace is nothing more than eye candy. Etc. Etc. Etc. Over the top acting and melodrama masquerading as real drama. Cheap sentimentality substituting for real emotion. Prick teasing/peep show ploys substituting for real suspense. Lazy sophomoric writing (i.e. have a guy just fall on the most important element of season one -- the hatch. Or have an expert who knows everyone on the island's story tell the junkie that they're standing next to a plane filled with heroin). Flat out bad story telling -- WAY too many loose ends that never get tied up. That's not MYSTERY writing, it's BAD writing.Plots ramble all over the place and break suspension of disbelief parameters left and right or just totally disappear into thin air (i.e. The whole discussion behind why the raft had to leave IMMEDIATELY was because monsoon season was at hand. Then, for MONTHS afterward, THERE'S NO MONSOON SEASON. Stupid). Then there's the brilliant, riveting dialogue: Some guy just blows up in front of you, or someone dies by some other means, or some other disaster happens, followed by..."You okay?" "That was messed up". "Yeah". WOW! Seriously?!!! Count how many times the question: "You okay?" appears (absurdly and inappropriately) throughout the seasons. It's comical after a while. As far as direction goes...JJ Abrams seems forever enamored of himself, although based on his work I'm not sure the reason for this. This is, without a doubt, one of the most over rated TV series in TV history. It's a huge neon sign of the times of the Idiocracy in which we live. In the immortal words of that true TV giant, Mr. T: "I pity the fool".There is a raging debate over whether Lost is a plot-driven show or a character-driven show. Either way, the show loses. As a plot-driven show, the gaping plot holes are undeniable. As a character-driven show, it fails again. I've never seen an assemblage of more obnoxious characters in one show in my life. Jack is insufferable with his megalomaniac one-dimensional control freak behavior. He's a damn surgeon, for Pete's sake, yet somehow he ends up being the MacGyver of EVERYTHING that happens on the island. Then there's Sawyer, the murderer/con man -- a 13 year old adolescent in a grown man's body. (His story also ties into the plot holes if looked at from a plot-driven perspective. There's NO WAY that all those survivors would have allowed him to just steal and horde everything that he stole and horded.) At least he's TWO-dimensional, compared to Jack's one-dimensional character -- he has that SCOWL to go along with his sophomoric personality. Then there's Kate, the murderer/con woman, who's about as smart as a box of rocks. (I agree with other reviewers who state that JJ Abrams has no clue how to portray real women). Her decisions are about on a par with decisions made by adolescent girls in slasher movies.Then there's Michael: "WAAAAAAAALLLLLLLTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Then there's Locke. An inconsistent character AT BEST.Then there's Juliet. And Rose...and...and...and...and...Another reviewer stated that the problem with Lost is the lack of a clear-cut antagonist. I disagree. I believe the primary problem with Lost is the lack of any clear-cut PROTAGONISTS! Who in this entire series -- with the possible exception of Hurley -- is even worth rooting for? For most of the series, I was hoping that Jack, James Sawyer, John Locke, Kate, Juliet, Michael, etc. would just DIE. That's never a good thing, especially in a character-driven series.Any way you slice it, this show is a bust.