Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
[theman]Lost was at least a good show throughout its entire run (despite a dip in quality in the third season) and is honestly probably one of the best shows in TV history, despite its flaws. Few other shows have managed to continue building as extensive a mythology as Lost did without eventually collapsing under the weight of their own ambition.
Are you kidding me? That is exactly what happened to lost. The whole mythology got so convoluted and ridiculous that MILLIONS of people stopped watching the show. Lost became stupid and insipid. I was a huge huge Lost fan, and I still think that it was on the whole, one of the most brilliant and daring tv shows to ever exist. But when it got bad, it got really smurfing bad. Like disgustingly bad. So bad I wanted to punch people in the balls bad.

But it did pick up toward the end, and like so many other naive viewers, I believed in the promise of answers. Finally.

They never came. The finale was emotionally resonating. I cried and cried. And how amazing to see all the cast together again! It's only after all that huggy glowy feeling dissipated that you realize what a smurfing load of bulltrout that finale was. It answered nothing. It attempted to answer nothing. They lied for years about having answers. Stupid to believe them, really. The whole mythology was a load of hooey.

The pilot episode however, remains one of the best things I have ever seen.

Battlestar Galactica similarly got really really bad. But worse than Lost? I don't think so. Maybe equally bad.

Finales are usually trout. I heard the Six Feet Under finale is unusually good, but I never watched that show. I just finished all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights which I can't believe I never watched before because that show is absolutely jaw-droppingly brilliant. And the finale for that show was almost pitch perfect. One of the best finales I've ever seen. Not because anything amazing or crazy happened. But it was just toe-to-toe right in line with everything the show is about.