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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacsf7q wrote

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

I think a lot of people had that theory in their head the whole time they were watching it and just refuse to accept that they were wrong. Kind of like a "See? I called it years ago!" attitude.

I'm with you though, I can't help but judge someone who watches a show for that long, is explicitly told in the finale what happened, and still completely misses the point. I had a coworker who fairly recently was going on about what a waste of time Lost was because the ending was so bad. I told him his interpretation of the ending was flat out wrong and why, but he wouldn't accept it.

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dantemanjones t1_jacrkn4 wrote

Reply to Have you ever let a show pile up so you can binge rather than watch weekly? What does that say about our viewing habits? by TimeTraveler3056

Back when Stargate SG-1 was airing, I would wait for the DVDs and binge it. That was more because I didn't want to miss a couple of episodes than because I wanted to binge it.

Other than that? Not really. I tend to binge most stuff I'm watching because I hop from streamer to streamer, so there's usually a good chunk of content available all at once.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacr2z2 wrote

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

Exactly. Like, the ending is not some high concept, obtuse conclusion that you need a film degree to understand. It's pretty straightforward. It's crazy to me that people could watch 6 seasons of a show and then get upset by a clear ending that they somehow misinterpret as something completely different. What were they watching that entire time? I don't think of myself as a very intellectual person that has a higher understanding of things and I don't like accusing people who don't like something with "You just don't get it", but in this case, they simply didn't.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacqaxf wrote

Reply to comment by dmick74 in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

>I loved the ending, but your assumption that people who didn’t like it also must not have understood is wrong

In my experience, it's not an assumption at all. I've talked to multiple people about the ending of Lost and I've asked those that dismissed it as "bad" and "a waste of time" why they felt that way. They all gave a variation of the same answer, proving they didn't understand it.

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bros402 t1_jacqa44 wrote

Reply to comment by Logical-Balance9075 in 'Citadel': Amazon’s Big Bet for a Global TV Franchise - Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas star in Amazon’s ambitious action spy series that will premiere on Amazon on April 28, with planned spin-offs around the world. by Neo2199

I hope a lot has changed since 2020, since it sounded a lot like "male spy will be weak, woman spy will be strong independent woman" - not that that is bad, but it was written badly.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacpjwb wrote

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

>Nowadays, I wonder if half the problem is that people are "watching" while dicking around on their phones.

That's almost certainly the issue a lot of the time. I recently learned that a friend of mine watches shows on a side TV that sits next to his main TV while he plays video games. People can do what they want but that is insane to me.

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dickwolfteen t1_jacp9lq wrote

Reply to Which show do you think is the greatest of all time? by Faxgangy

Mad Men, The Wire and The Sopranos but all for different reasons.

The Wire is the finest, The Sopranos is the most watchable and Mad Men is somewhere in between.

Mad Men doesn’t really dip in quality, though.

I don’t think The Wire or Sopranos really dip either but they have low points that are more easily pointed out.

So I think Mad Men is the best of all time, but what the fuck do I know?

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