After spending a good deal of my time watching Lost, listening to the official podcast and reading anything I can get my hands on about the show, I feel like my relationship with the show has gotten a little strained.
1. At the beginning, you will blow off your friends to be together.
During the first season of Lost, I couldn't get enough. I cleared Wednesday nights on my schedule and if I had to TiVo it, I avoided anyone I knew who watched it. I didn't want them spoiling anything for me. My relationship with Lost was special.
2. You let the little things slide.
It doesn't happen often but every once in a while Lost will do something that irritates me. Nikki and Paolo, Bernard & Rose and Hurley's inability to lose weight are all little things that I refused to let bother me...at first.
3. After a while, you find yourself attracted to similar types.
I enjoyed Jericho and The Nine very much. I watched every episode because they reminded me so much of Lost, even though I felt guilty the whole time. Luckily, those shows were canceled before Lost found out what I was doing.
4. After a while, you start to get jealous.
I'm fully aware that other people are seeing Lost. It's a fact that I've had to deal with but I hate it when I overhear other people talking about what a great time they had watching Lost. I mean, I'm only human.
5. By the end, one of you are forced to wear a fake beard and mustache.
After seeing each other for about three years, things have gotten a little too familiar. You start to avoid each other. You take your time getting around to watching each week's episode and Lost uses a really bad fake beard and mustache to avoid you. Even though you see through the disguise, you pretend that you don't notice a thing and hope that the relationship will get better next season.
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5-29-2007 @ 2:37PM
H said...
If you haven't gotten back together after the finale, it's time to break up. And it's you; not LOST.
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5-29-2007 @ 3:02PM
David said...
But you can't have sex with Lost... well maybe you can but I don't want to know.
Bernard & Rose are great! Why don't you like them?
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5-30-2007 @ 3:01AM
matthew m. barnes said...
what's wrong with Rose and Bernard? i was so happy to see them back in the last weeks of the season. also, of course Hurley's not losing weight. they have all that food now! they have for a while. and yes, he would have lost weight in the first season (which was only the first month or so on the island), but you wouldn't have noticed. (i had a friend that weighed somewhere in the upper 300's and when she started losing weight, it wasn't until she'd lost about 75 lbs. that you could see a difference!)
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5-29-2007 @ 3:45PM
Roger Rees said...
The problem with B & R is that they were non-existent for almost the entire third season. We need more B & R!
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5-29-2007 @ 4:33PM
BigTed said...
When you ask "Lost," "Is this relationship really going somewhere?," it will answer, "Yeah, baby, sure. Stick with me, and I'll give you everything you've ever wanted."
But part of you suspects that "Lost" really has no idea where it'll be three years from now, and that you're just being manipulated once again.
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5-29-2007 @ 4:34PM
Bash said...
Erm... no we don't.
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5-30-2007 @ 12:58PM
Trish said...
It's only a tv show. Don't be such a drama queen.
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5-29-2007 @ 6:13PM
John Hewitt said...
Those habits you found attractive at first . . . cute nicknames, the refusal to answer a question, flirting with other people, eyeball shots, numbers, flashbacks . . . really start to annoy you after a while.
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5-29-2007 @ 7:06PM
RSL said...
Oooh, look. People showing how cool they are being snarky about Lost. Wow. It's like it's October all over again. :)
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5-30-2007 @ 12:49AM
Rodney said...
Everyone thinks that was a bad fake beard, but have you seen the movie "Gettysburg"? That was a forest of fake beards. Jack's is quite good, by comparison and on its own. The only reason it seems bad is that we *know* it's fake; if we'd never seen it before, we'd probably think it was real...
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5-30-2007 @ 6:51AM
JagedNS said...
personally I'm not jumping on the media bandwagon to rag on Lost...I still enjoy this show as much as I did when it first came on....no change whatsoever. I loved the season finale and I think this is one of the most interesting shows to come along in a very long time.
and that's all I have to say 'bout that. :)
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5-30-2007 @ 2:06PM
ctunightfall said...
How good is a relationship if you know it's set to end? And, how come Heroes isn't on your list of similar series? It's like the cute lovechild of LOST and 24.
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5-31-2007 @ 2:55AM
theConundrumm said...
y'all need to ask what is wrong with Rose & Bernard?... we are watching the same show right?
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6-11-2007 @ 3:31PM
Hwj3 said...
If it ends as bad as X-files I'll be really pissed...
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