Late To Lost
I have a friend who just started watching Lost through Netflix. She got so into it that she finished the first five seasons in about a month. However, the sixth season is not yet available and she's says its tough not to have new shows. Poor girl, has to wait till the end of August before she gets her new episodes. Must be tough.
I promised not to give away anything, but I don't even know what I'd say about the final season. I wouldn't even want to tell her the ending was controversial. She'll find out soon enough for herself. And maybe it works better if you get to watch it all in a few days.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:22 AM
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I'm surprised she hasn't already heard about the finale. It was hard to avoid.
I suspect the sixth season is still available on Hulu for watching online. And if she knows how to use a torrent client, she can download the shows and burn them on DVD herself.
Of course, since the S6 box is going to be released in a couple weeks, it's easier just to wait.
I watched seasons one to four on DVD, and then seasons five and six live. It does change the experience a lot. Watching on DVD tends to make the show better -- not just because you don't have to wait, but because you have an HD-quality picture and can pause the show whenever you want, and rewatch a scene because it's awesome, or because it's confusing.
On the other hand, Lost, like Babylon 5 a decade earlier, gave the viewers a lot of mysteries to speculate over. Those who had to wait a week (or a summer) for new episodes had plenty of time to speculate about what was going on, which made the revelations that much more fun. Whereas people who watch a show non-stop on DVD often don't speculate; they just keep watching.
I might compare it to the sociological difference between a religion (or quasi-religion like Marxism) that has a fixed canon, and a religion that has a living prophet. Adherents of the former tend to pore over texts and hyper-analyze them to learn the deep secrets of their faith, and to figure out how to apply ancient doctrines to new situations. Adherents of the latter rarely do that, since they can just ask the living prophet for new revelations any time they want. (And of course, if your prophet dies, you may move from one category to the other: this happened in our lifetimes to Scientology and to orthodox Objectivism.)
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