Is LOST the greatest television series of all times?
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Lost had possibly the greatest pilot episode of all time, and its first season stands as one of the all time best. But as a whole it is not the greatest show of all time. I think it suffered from being a network show, in that it was forced to do 22 episodes every year, which lead to a lot filler episodes, and questions being created and forgotten about. I believe it was season 4, where due to the writers strike was only 14 episodes, and was actually really good, and didn't waste time on pointless plots, like Jack's tattoos.
Also at times it was very clear that the writers had no idea how long the show was going to go for. Even if they did know how they wanted it to end, they didn't know how long to drag things out for. This was very clear during season 3. Near the end of that season they announced the show would run 3 more years and things for the most part were better after that. But the last season still kind of sucked.
Lost was a great show, with many great episodes and amazing moments, but I would not consider it the greatest of all time.
Agree, the first couple of seasons were great, but then it went off on too many directions and lasted too long. I think it should have been told in 3 or 4 season at the max. After season 4, I lost interest and stopped watching because I no longer cared what happened.
shareI actually find Season 4 worse than anything that came before it and the shortening of the later seasons didn´t really benefit LOST at all. I´d take 1,2,3 over 4,5,6 every day of the week. There were some really great filler episodes in the earlier seasons even though they were obvious filler. No, I don´t mean Jack´s tattoos but episodes like Tricia Tanaka is Dead, The Long Con etc. I think what really kills LOST for being an all time great show is season 6. It´s just so awful. The flash sideways was just an uninteresting waste of time that had no bearing on the end of the show.
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