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Digitalizing t1_jaa0up1 wrote

Reply to Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

Considering how many fans of the show who watched it all intently, still to this day, don't understand the blatantly clear final season astounds me. There is actually a good chance you have no idea what the real ending is since it's incorrectly summarised a majority of the time.

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anasui1 t1_ja9ydsg wrote

Reply to The trope of dropping a mostly non-plot related flashback or side story episode right after a major plot point. Good or Bad? (General spoilers) by logicalnoise

really dislike it, but what I absolutely despise is ending an episode of an ensemble show on a cliffhanger where a couple characters are about to die/discover something and the next one starts with another group of characters doing their mundane things for 20 minutes. Fuck fuck fuck that

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kittentarentino t1_ja9xy4t wrote

Reply to Why does everyone HATE Better Call Saul? by _ShigeruTarantino_

It’s a spin-off on AMC. Award campaigns for TV are expensive, there are so many options. To be seen and chosen amongst hundreds of shows costs money that AMC doesn’t have. So they just hoped word of mouth would do it.

It didn’t. So it doesn’t mean it doesn’t earn it. It just wasn’t apart of the zeitgeist enough to barrel through and get the votes.

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DimitriCushion t1_ja9xxft wrote

Reply to comment by Dismal-Past7785 in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

I had a discussion with someone on here awhile ago who apparently was a huge fan of the show when it aired, but they hated the ending and had never gone back to it since. Only thing was that they had misunderstood the ending in the way that many people seem to have. After a back and forth on the subject they refused to accept what I was saying and put it down to "different interpretations", despite what the show explicitly spells out to the viewer. Incredibly frustrating. I've got no problem with anyone who disliked the ending, but I really don't get how so many people managed to misunderstand it when they basically have a character knock you over the head with exposition explaining everything.

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PM_ME_CAKE t1_ja9xcdq wrote

Reply to comment by RipJug in The trope of dropping a mostly non-plot related flashback or side story episode right after a major plot point. Good or Bad? (General spoilers) by logicalnoise

I mean, I personally didn't like it (though not because it was a sidestep, I was perfectly cool with that), but also Ted Lasso S2 was a case where two extra episodes ended up being ordered on top of the main batch. You can clearly tell that Beard's episode and the Christmas (one of my favourites) episode are those two, they're both perfectly lovely but are completely disconnected to the main plot - I have nothing ultimately against how they work but it's a bit of a different context.

Separately, my answer to this thread's question is it does really depend on how you do it and it's on a per-show basis on if it works.

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