I just saw a commercial for Lost moving to 10pm! WTF! Are they TRYING to lose viewers?! Anyone know why they would do this?
That's such crap. GRRRRRR!!!! American Idol: YOU SUCK! And you ruin everything! *Meka pitches a giant hissy at having to wait a whole extra hour to see the show.
I like the first few episodes with all the losers and wannabes. But a bit on topic: never got into lost, but I did back in the day. Guess it's dvd time soon.
Even if the content was worth watching (which.....hi....not so much), the fucking commercials every other minute coupled with that Ryan Seacrest assclown running the show is enough to make me want to tear my eyeballs out and pee on them.
I thought they were making up an ending to the show? Read something about that. But I stopped watching after season 1. The fact that they're making up and ending now (if that's true) would mean they didn't have one to begin with. No exit strategy. Which means they're making stuff up as they go along, which makes it one sucky show,because it's noticeable. Anyone have more wine?
Well, sure. They have to make room for ratings powerhouses like "Knights of Prosperity" and "In Case of Emergency." ...though to be fair, "Knights" is pretty funny.
God, I hate the way network television is run. So, wednesday at ten will be Medium on NBC, CSI:NY on CBS, and Lost on ABC. All shows we watch. There'll be some fancy VCR work that night at the Payne house.
I don't so much hate American Idol as I hate the way the network schedules it. It's basically a talent show, like the many talent shows that have been on before. No problem there. But for fuck's sake, what's the need to run it multiple nights per week, sometimes in 2 hour slots, sometimes preempting other successful shows like House!? Put the damn thing on once a week, for one hour, like a normal TV show!! Again I say
They run American Idol several times a week in order to milk more money out of it. Think about it. There's no script to write. The only money they have to spend is on the judges' salaries and the cameras/lighting/staging/sound. The show always has the highest ratings of the night, and they can pack in 20 minutes of commercials with only 40 minutes of actual programming (most of it recaps and shit). They also have product placement up the ying-yang. And to top it all off, they charge money for calling in to vote, and let people call in as many times as they want. It's a fucking goldmine, and FOX would be stupid not to milk it for all that it's worth. It's the same thing NBC is now doing with all those retarded game shows. It's a shitty show and the only good parts are the premiere and the finale, mainly because they recap EVERYTHING in the finale. ABC was smart to change it to 10. Lost would have been decimated in the ratings game, especially since they've been losing viewers over the last season or so.
According to the OC Register Criminal Minds has been stomping Lost in the ratings and that's one of the reasons why Lost has been moved back an hour.
I've been watching LOST since the begining and I have to say... that I am losing intrest BIG TIME. I have no doubt that I'll be programming the TiVO in February, but at this point, it's just a pass the time sort of thing. I want some real answers as to what the hell is going on on that island and all the writers seem to focus on is who Kate is going to sleep with... and they took their sweet time with that!! Well now that the cherry is popped, maybe we can move on to the important stuff. Not that American Idol is any better. How many years can you laugh at the scores of terrible singers? So this is network TV vs. shows like Daybreak and Invasion?
I'll still be watching Lost live for the first few episodes (well, sort of live...I start 15 minutes into it in order to skip over commercials). Unless they steer away from this Kate crap that they think keeps the viewers interested, 24 will be the only show I watch live (again, semi-live).
I think it's curious how little press LOST has gotten during it's hiatus. How fickle the audience is - today's smash sleeper hit is tomorrow's overexposed burned-out has-been. Not that LOST is anywhere close to being that, but it's disheartening how fast people turn against a show.
Well there's more than a few gushers who'd praise any episode of Lost, hell slap a Dharma Corp logo on the end of a Barney & Friends episode and they'd claim it was a genius reference to the dinosaur in the first season. And I do think the vast majority of fans have been more than patient waiting for the story to move along, rooting for the show to pick up. If anything, I find it disheartening that the writers of Lost won't commit to a storyline, that they keep the show all set up and no pay off, all questions and no answers.
Wasn't actually a dinosaur. We never saw anything, and it's assumed to be the smoke monster since it makes weird noises and can move shit around.
I can't rep you for some reason Clyde, so I'll have to post my comment instead Lindelof should forget Lost and concentrate on his writing duties for Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk IMNSHO!!!
I don't know what they'd DO after they answer the major questions, but I sure as fuck wish they'd get around to it!
Come on Flashlight... I understand that there is no bigger LOST fan here than you, but you have to admit... that the producers are just throwing crap together as they go in order to prolong providing some answers as to what's going on on that island. Who is Alvar Hanso and the Hanso Corporation? What is the Dharma Initiative and what does it have to do with the island? That whole LOST experience last spring... what was that and does it have anythig to do with the series? And while Kate is my favorite Islander, I only have a passing intrest into who she's going to sleep with. What did she do that put her on the run? Is Claire Jack's half sister? What do alll of these people have to do with each other? I think now that the producers want to end it, maybe that will give them the lee way to go ahead and start answering these questions.
I fully agree. Leaving it in it's time slot is a certified to lose viewers. This has been established for the past five seasons of this AI's existance. Tell me, how many of us dedicated Trekkies (some going back to TOS) here were particularly patient with ENT? Anyone? Bueller?
I caught nearly every episode of it, I think. It was the only Trek on. There was a period around seasons 2 and 3 that UPN was dicking around with the schedule, so I probably missed several episodes and never bothered to catch them in reruns. I was pretty patient with it, and it paid off in season 4.
