Keith the Elder Wrote:Reading this thread makes me wonder if I am missing the coolest show since "Nowhere Man." Talk about "blow you away" endings, that one.
I liked "Nowhere Man", too, as I did a number of other extraordinary UPN shows that didn't survive their first season for some reason. But, "Lost" makes "Nowhere Man" look like a kindergarten project.
The complexity of the story and the attention to detail are breathtaking -- far beyond just about any kind of TV writing I've ever seen -- yet it hasn't degenerated into incoherence like so many shows that have gone before (e.g., "Earth: Final Conflict") that only attempted half the complexity. Every major character has enough virtues and enough flaws that you develop a strong love/hate relationship with each of them. You have to pay close attention to EVERYTHING on the screen at any time, including pictures on the wall, what's playing on the TV set in the background, the faces of all persons passing by the main action, etc.
I am in awe that the production/writing team has been able to keep the whole thing under such great control, and that the suits haven't managed to mess it up. Except for J. Michael Strazynski (Babylon 5), I can't think of anyone else who has been able to pull this off, and he pretty much wrote every episode himself, I believe. "Lost" has used something like a dozen writers and a dozen directors so far, so they must have one HECK of a detailed series "bible"!
Brett