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Do people unironically like "LOST"?

I missed the craze when it was a network show, but too many people I know were invested in this show.

I am currently watching the pilot and have already loudly laughed twice at how bad it is.

Also I fricking hate every piece of media that JJ Abrams has ever even considered working on

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I think it's one of the first big instances of a mystery box collapsing in on itself. :marseytransimplosion:

A twitter quote from TVTropes mentions this phenomena with a later example (Game of Thrones) :marseylaugh:

>"[Game of Thrones] was on TV for a decade and had a stranglehold on popular culture and it ended so poorly that literally the moment it ended its cultural influence dissolved. It's amazing. It was like, overnight and it's baffling to think that something that was so everpresent for eight years simply ceased to exist because we all collectively decided it wasn't worth it. Eight years of memes, references, a presence you could not get away even if you tried and didn't care and all of this, ALL OF IT, undone to such a point that I can't even remember the last time I saw [Game of Thrones] referenced or talked about."

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attack on titan was like this too

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I think it's one of the first big instances of a mystery box collapsing in on itself

High quality reply. Whether or not you like Breaking Bad I always cite that Vince Gilligan came to the network with the story pitch and told them on day 1 that there would be 5 seasons, and only 5 seasons. The story has a defined narrative arc.

It's a symptom of the move from episodic to over-arching narrative television, IMO.

Love em or hate em, Seinfeld and Friends didn't really have to ever worry about explaining what happened in the prior episode.

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