Having all the episodes to a show that designed to suck your attention is dangerous. Lost totally killed my productivity over the last ~2 months. I've created almost nothing, and my reading has dropped off slightly as well. Our TV consumption jumped to a solid 2-3 hours an evening and perhaps more on weekends, eating up almost all valuable non-work time.
I'm taking stock now that we've finsihed. I'll be fair and say the show was interesting in the first two seasons. Reflecting, the story took a downward trend and although the final episode/season technically resolve the plot, I felt the whole fifth and sixth seasons were kind of bland. The mystery and mystique of the history of the island and physics questions (the parts I spent the most thinking about) were slowly revealed, as were the backstories of the Dharma Initiative and the hostiles/others which were hacked at rather than pealed away.
The Lostpedia has been pointed out to me, so I might spend a little time verifying some assumptions and learning about the augmented reality games that accompanied the broadcast.
Whatever, we had fun. I think I would feel less dirty having consumed perhaps an average of 1 episode per day and spent more time tangibly producing rater than consuming. Easy access made it all too easy to press play on the next episode. That is defiantly it for high-rate TV consumption for a while now - time to get back into the book project in a big and furious way!
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Looking back, I did have a good time watching lost, but I had a much better time earlier on when less was known and there was more opportunity to generate and test hypotheses about what the hell was happening.
What was disappointing about the final season, was that it felt a little contrived. I did not feel like we had come to the end of a well designed 6-year story arc. I remember feeling great satisfaction at the end of season 4 of the Babylon5 TV Series that played out what seemed like a well crafted arc (that fifth season really sucked though!).
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