So, I've been Watching Lost...

I'm as with many who were around when this show launched, the impact it left was kind of phenomenal for the time with some of the most layered and nuanced writing for any cast of characters even to this day and a level of suspense and intrigue wish they could generate. Now that said, in-spite loving the show and it's character there was a point my interest kind of tapered off somewhere between Seasons 4 and 5 and I'm aware a lot of people there own issues with the later end of the series as well. For me though, that nostalgia bell was ringing so I figured I'd buy the blu-ray box set and finally see it through Seasons 1-6 to really see whether the show declined or whether or not I may have been too hasty.

Yeah, as it turns out it was absolutely the latter because not only did this show deliver on every on every mystery towards it's conclusion - the emotional pay-off for certain characters at the end of the story as phenomenal most especially towards Season 5 and especially 6. First off though, the reason I tapered off in Season 4 is because during this series the show introduces what I feel is a very underwhelming new threat and I also think it meanders with it while trying to reach it's conclusion as while I do have better understanding of SE4 it really didn't change my opinion much. Then I got to Season 5 and what really won me over was a much tighter focus back on the OG cast and it was emotionally charged and while it does introduce the time-travel I actually didn't find it hard to follow.

That's one of the main things I often hear cited as a complaint against Lost that it has a convoluted plot and I am certainly not going to argue that point but I will also say almost every mystery in this show does get a proper explanation by the point of it's conclusion and that actually kind of shocked me. That said this is a show that very much expects you to binge which I was more than happy to do this time around without having to wait a week or in some cases months before a new episode. The other thing I hear others erroneously cite as a complaint against the show is the supposed implication that the ending suggests that they were all dead from the beginning which is not only disproven by the shows writers and production team but also within the show itself particularly it's final episode where this line is stated

"The days you spent with those people on that Island where the most important of your life".

However what this show is all about, what it has always excelled and what got legitimate tears out of me several times is it's characters because there isn't a single of these guys that isn't layered or doesn't have a reason to care about them except Keamy. I still think to this day no show has gone out of it's way to develop character chemistry and relationship in as an emotional way as this one does and over the final season there's not a single character who doesn't get there moment and I love this show for that.

Lost never feels like a waste of time even if the early seasons are build up towards it's mysteries, it's character episodes are still incredibly strong and I can't even point to a single cast member who doesn't deliver. Terry O Quinn as Locke is by the far the most relatable to me but Josh Holloway, Matthew Fox, Elizabeth Mitchell, Henry Ian Cuswick and Michael Emerson are just a few of the many that really hit the mark multiple times over. I want to say I miss shows like this but thinking about it I don't think there's ever been a show that's ever managed to try this kind of story telling that's why I give it a high recommend.

Lost still looks great visually even to this day and if you want to hunt out the blu-rays this show has so much extra content going into it's history it's actually kind of insane. You won't find this kind of writing anywhere else. Lost is a keeper.