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[Mervi]

Nuytsia, I see your point, but as an answer, I'l just quote a discussion from the show.

- They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.
- It only ends once. Anything that happens before that... is just progress.

What I'm trying to say, is that repetition is part of the plot. The fact that people on the island don't communicate and keep doing stupid mistakes is part of the plot. Sounds familiar?

I was thinking about this last night, and I think I understand why some people find the show so difficult to watch - the bottom line is that LOST *demands* participation. With any other regular tv show, you can just watch it quite passively, maybe discuss the latest developments with friends the next day and then go on with your life. With regular tv, all the pieces you need to enjoy the show are *in* the show. But with LOST, if you really want to know what's going on, you find yourself re-watching, freeze-framing, going to the Internet searching information about world mythologies, scientific discoveries and wild theories. You might even go to a library and start reading all the books that have been referred to in the show. Not many tv shows do that, and none have done it in the scale that LOST does.

As I've said before, regular rules about tv don't apply to LOST. You don't always get the answers you were looking for. Sometimes you don't get any answers at all. Confusing things happen. Repetitive things happen. The scripts are often unconventional (Man of Science, Man of Faith & Across the Sea are perfect examples of this). LOST is not what you're expecting to see when you turn on your tv. And that's why I love it so much. I really hope that it will change and push forward the tv format, just like The Prisoner did in the 60's. We *need* these odd, frustrating, different tv shows to push the "idea" of a "tv show" forward, because the same old stuff really is boring and honestly?... not really good for our minds.

And I really do understand that 6 seasons is a lot of time to devote yourself to something and I understand that LOST isn't for everyone, for whatever reasons. But... and I hope I don't offend anyone saying this - I mean this in general, I'm not directing this at anyone here! ... I find it very sad that so many people dismiss LOST and its importance because it's a tv show, like that somehow makes it less valuable as a story and an experience. Six season... well, how many years have I spent reading and re-reading Hobb? Or discussing and studying Tolkien's works? Just because the story is told in a different format, and in tv instead of books, doesn't make it less valuable. Sure, most of what is broadcast at the moment *is* crap, but that's exactly what LOST has tried to change.

Okay, rant over.