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The story concerns the survivors of a terrible plane crash, who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with seemingly little chance of a rescue. Medical doctor Jack takes a position of leadership, helping to rally the survivors and prepare them for a period of difficulty as they learn how to survive on the paradisiacal island. But everything is not as it seems, as the island offers potential danger in the form of a large, mysterious creature, and evidence is found that the plane crash may not have been an accident. As they struggle to survive, each of the characters forms alliances and makes enemies, all while dealing with the unresolved issues of the lives they've left behind. (official distributor synopsis)
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Season 1 – 90% – With TV shows that have a cult status right from the start, I am usually skeptical, but try not to believe it when every other character fascinates you (Sawyer, Charlie, and the mysterious John Locke) in a setting like the Island that has never been seen before. The Robinson Crusoe beginning is forgotten by the end of the first episode and gives way to personal dramas, efforts to build trust, and fear of the unknown. From the episode The Moth, I was a fan; and from the legendary Numbers, I became a Lostie. And now I'm going down the rabbit hole into a new rabbit burrow... Season 2 – 85% – The mysterious string plays the right tone again, hinting at deep mythological possibilities and showing who can hide in the depths of the jungle. The scripts also reinforce the music. Once again, we witness the shocking departure of an important character, but regular relationships between characters become sharper, mainly due to the theme of getting used to new arrivals. The only objection I have is a slight amount of dragging. While Sayid literally walks along the beach for several minutes in the first season, the second group wanders around the jungle on the beach for three episodes. We do get to know the newcomers better, but it strongly affects the tension and atmosphere we knew when we got to know Jack or Sawyer a season ago. Nevertheless, I wouldn't label the second season as significantly weak. In the second half, the atmosphere thickens so much that each episode is a true dramatic gem, and the finale is literally flawless. Only a slight drawback remains, which is the pace compared to the pacing of the first season. Season 3 – 100% – The mythology takes a backseat and relationships and characters take the lead. For me, this is a positive change, and the best proof is the first six episodes. While many viewers label this period as the weakest part of the series, I didn't take a breath for even a minute. And because the rest of the third season also fascinated me, I couldn't help but applaud. The series gains a new central motif through Desmond, and John Locke's new position becomes the most intriguing storyline. The brilliant finale surprises us so much that it almost requires another viewing. At the time, I thought that the episode Through the Looking Glass was the key to the end of the series, but the creators had even more daring plans. Season 4 – 100% – Flashbacks + flash forwards, a ship with new characters, and the best season yet. The playfulness with time and storytelling reaches a new level, and I can only wonder. We get some crucial answers, but the information that would provide the decisive key to the complex point is still out of reach. But how can I be mad at the creators when they expand the mythology to such dimensions that without occasional private recapitulation, I might easily get confused in the plot? This epic and complex TV milestone has definitively entered history with this season. And it shows us that while the mysteries of the Island are irresistible, it is always about the characters. This is evidenced by the fact that Jack, who was once unpredictable and often cursed, has become one of my favorites. Season 5 – 100% – Just when I thought that the time play and storytelling had reached their highest level in the fourth season, I didn't know that the creators would take me at my word and give me – time play. The memories of the main characters suddenly seem to be the scheme of a completely different series, and no matter how we couldn't predict what would happen in the next minutes before, now we can't even guess what and when will appear in the next second. And of course, I made the same mistake again. At the end of the final episode, I had the feeling that I guessed how the whole series would end. I couldn't have been further from the truth. Season 6 – 100% – The End has come. It didn't give us answers about who built the four-toed statue, didn't reveal how the ocean currents around the Island work, didn't reveal even more important things. But it was the ending it should have been. Absolute, grounding, concluding all the beloved characters I was rooting for for six seasons. I can understand all the criticisms: not enough information about Jacob and his companion, not enough answers to questions about the nature of the island and its core, an ending that changes the face of the whole series. But I remain elated. Uncertain, because I know only slightly more than the characters themselves, but that's how it was supposed to be. We only know what the main characters were told by the supporting characters, and they only know what they experienced themselves. Nothing more, no answer from above, no clue to move forward beyond the passengers of Oceanic 815 and all those who joined them over time. And for that, thank you. Only like this could The End be such a breathtaking, personal, and touching experience. See you in another life.
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First I watched four seasons “week after week" and then, years later, I watched all six seasons all at once. Although Lost can be faulted for many things (mostly rightly), it can also be praised to the heavens for a lot of other things (mostly rightly). The evolution of each season in terms of narrative methods, style, genre, topic, form... Simply everything is done in a way that nobody has attempted before; especially not for a non-cable station that relies heavily on viewer figures. Each season is completely different, not always necessarily good, but Lost doesn’t suffer from the “same thing over and over, just in a different jacket" syndrome. Where the first series made do with a few characters and their struggle for survival somewhere on a beach in the South Pacific, a couple of acres of jungle, slow storytelling and flashbacks, a couple of seasons later it continues with an almost unbearable number of characters, global scale, breakneck pace, no flashbacks, several time levels of storytelling (Nolan must love it) etc. It is evident that the first two seasons are completely separate from the others, as if, after their success, the creators came up with an integrated concept for “how it is ALL going to be from now on", so they knew what to put where “so that it would all fit together", while before that this wasn’t the case at all. So the separate events (especially during season five) work faultlessly in terms of episodes as of season three, but in the context of the first two seasons, in places they are pretty hard to come to terms with as far as logic is concerned. The series suffered some rather weak interludes (filler episodes during season three, the first half of season five and a considerable section of season six), as well as enjoying some stronger periods (season one, a period comprising four episodes in season three and the entire season four and the end of season five). In the first half, it was often needlessly dragged out, while in the second half an episode or so on top would have benefited things. It should have ended after season four which, with a couple of changes, would have made a satisfying end (season five as well), or conversely it should have had an extra season, because the finale leaves a lot of unsuitable loose ends. It’s just full of contradictions. Why it works and what carries it along despite some weaker periods are the characters. It is the characters that make this worth watching at all and all of the most powerful moments are thanks to them. Because these moments aren’t a matter of twists or revelations, but they are simply emotional passages. Primarily it isn’t an action adventure mystery sci-fi series, that is all secondary, but it’s about the characters. And they are the reason why I kept watching for so many years, even though more than once it got on my nerves; the characters are the reason why I plan to watch it again in the future. Purely objectively I should give it four stars, but... I just have a weakness for Lost and for Giacchino and his top notch six years of toil on this series, and I can think of nothing but praise for it. _____ Season one (5/5): At first sight it might seem that another variation on the theme of “survivors on a desert island" has nothing to offer, but that would be a mistake in this case. It’s like if you describe Twin Peaks as simply twenty episodes about the investigation of a murder in a small town; who would want to watch something like that, huh? Season two (4/5): To start off with, the creators turn everything upside down and so this season has a completely different feeling than the one before it... But still, underneath everything this is still good old Lost. Season three (4/5): Right from the very start the creators show you that this is going to be in a different spirit. But that’s not really how it works here. It’s still good, but you’ve seen it all before and it’s almost a waste of screen space. It’s not actually boring, but clearly yesterday’s warmed up porridge full of pointless flashbacks. You even start thinking that maybe it’s not worth your valuable time. But sometime around episode eight it kicks off from the bottom and the quality begins to rise, at first slowly, but then pretty fast, with the last few episodes of the season turning into the very best that the creators have given us so far. But at times it seems that they should have condensed the story down from three episodes into one. At times. Season four (5/5): ... and, lo and behold, that’s what they did. Fewer episodes per season meant unusually perfect episodes, because they got rid of the filler. Breakneck pacing, that is what season four is about. No need to mention the change in concept and style, that would be repeating myself, so I’ll shorten things to saying that this is the best season after season one. This one is so good that if it answered a couple more questions, this would have made a respectable and mainly absolute ending to the series. Season five (4/5): Not at all bad, but somewhere completely different than I wanted it to be. There are many unforgettable sequences here, but the pace is so relaxed that many of the episodes could be much shorter. But it’s nice that the creators stuck to the motto “what happened happened, and it happened like it always did" which is pretty rare (and never on such a scale, and never before did it make sense). The final quartet of episodes is first rate - something we have never seen in Lost before, which improves the overall impression. Season six (3/5): "I promise I'll tell you everything." When I said I didn’t like the direction taken in the preceding season, while having some qualities, this season the same applies twofold. Developments on the island are rather confused (although they have their moments, as usual in the second half of the season) and this season drags on by the inclusion of countless flashbacks; this is an elegant way of getting out of the problems, although it only works if you care about the characters at all. But if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be watching season six, would you? The problem of this season is the duality of good and evil, because the “good" is represented here by an all-powerful elite that doesn’t hesitate to wreck lives, while the “bad" is presented as quite understandable free will pushed into being evil, preventing any steps of “good" from being taken, which is bad for everybody else. In terms of story, the finale is similar to what I wrote somewhere before, but the aim here isn’t to resolve everything (although I think that everything has already been explained; here it is less about being necessary and meaningful and logical, but more about feelings instead). This season is centered around respectful farewell to the characters, which works perfectly all the way to the finale. But then along something happened that shouldn’t have... The events on the island itself are decently wrapped up, but the second storyline not at all. And the events captured on the bonus, spoof episode on the DVD Epilogue: The New Man in Charge (5/5)? I’ll just say this: if ABC gets around to it, I want to be there to see it.
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I'd like to write that Lost is a drug with opposite effects: the more you take, the less you like it. The cleverness of Season 1 and its perfectly paced conclusion (the cliffhanger in the last episode) is replaced by the muddled mush of the first half of Season 2, which you can only enjoy if you have a certain level of tolerance for the acting of the guy in the Michelle Rodriguez skirt and are able to accept that the centre of all the action is pushing a button. Certainly the quality of the individual episodes is also directly proportional to the appeal of the flashbacks, with Sawyer clearly having the best, together with John Locke’s his much-maligned "kidney problem", with Boone and Shannon and Charlie and his desperate DriveShaft at the opposite pole. In the current 3rd season, the so-called "bubblegum effect" (i.e. what could be told in half an hour is stretched to 6 episodes, the 3rd episode "Further Instructions" is an example of a complete screenwriting collapse) comes into play, with very effective, but somewhat stupid crutches to dramatize the plot (Sawyer's "implant"). Plus, the way the showrunners have branched out the plot to an unsuspected breadth and brought in a bunch of other big questions (and haven't answered any of them yet), I kind of feel like they have put themselves into a corner. I'm genuinely curious to see how the whole mystery will be solved; either we're looking at one of the biggest duds in the history of television in a few years, or, on the contrary, we’ll see that the Abrams team has created one of the most interesting series of the last decade. The frantic tweaking of the script over the last winter does not inspire much confidence so far. The reasons why I give it a cautious and very weak 4* are as follows: firstly, despite all my qualms, Lost still retains a kind of compelling mystery and manages to surprise. The second reason is the interesting characters free from the black and white concept – especially the extremely charismatic John Locke, the ambiguous rogue Sawyer, or the mysterious Henry. For now we can only say "we'll see, we'll see", there is still plenty of time for a conclusive assessment.
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The series Lost was preceded by the reputation of something that had not yet been made, a grandiose series for the 21st century, a phenomenal commercial hit, and a great spectacle. I didn't know exactly what it was about, but excited by the reviews, I was expecting some sort of hybrid between Twin Peaks and Dekalog. After watching the pilot, my eyes just rolled and I said to myself that I was a fool. I have seen some things and I know very well how popular culture works, so I can take the enthusiastic applause with a grain of salt. Among all the TV hits of recent years, Lost appealed to me the least. The excellent sci-fi author Frederik Pohl preached that an author can make up whatever they want until they're blue in the face, but they must adhere to basic logic and internal connections of the world they have created. The world of Lost seemed incredibly over-complex and unbelievable to me. An airplane crashes from a height of 10,000 meters, breaks into three pieces, and in its wreckage, fifty passengers survive with just cuts and minor injuries - and one serious injury on a character where the writer apparently needed it. The survivors utter wise words that the writer may consider appropriate, but they didn't even occur to me, not even in a situation when I flew off the road at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour and landed on the wall of a house. I was in greater shock than the characters of the series. Even the choice of actors - their age structure and characterization seemed like an artificial construct of the writers. I understand that the scheme the authors and the crew came up with allows for practically infinite plot games and an incredible amount of "shocking" plot twists, and playing the mystery game can entertain viewers just as much as the artificial world of reality shows, but it's simply not for me. I watched about three more episodes, but the final impression was always the same. Fans of the series can understandably explain to me that I simply didn't understand the series because in episode 85 or 385 everything will be logically and brilliantly explained, but I would still feel that the previous 84 or 384 episodes were va waste of time. Lost did not enrich me in terms of genre. Overall impression: 40%.
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One of the few high-quality series that captivates with its pace and cleverly written script. The characters are very interesting, and above all, the flashbacks are a perfect addition. Technically proficient filmmaking, where only a few blatantly computer-generated effects stand out, but they can be endured. Many things are still unclear, but we will see what the second season brings. The most essential fact is that J.J. Abrams can keep the viewer in maximum suspense the whole time, and the weaker moments are truly rare. A hit of unprecedented proportions.
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