This was like the biggest show of its time when it was aired. Easily on the level of BrBa or GoT.
Considering Lost was big years before the netflix and other streaming services era. I was wondering what would have been if Lost had first aired in the late 2000's/early 2010's competing with the current top tv shows?
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It would crash and burn because it’s so shitty. In 2004 people just didn’t know any better
It was pretty big on here was the first real general that Yea Forums had in fact it was tripfags from /LOST/ who first started /got/ back when it was originally announced. All I remember is shooping hats onto the actors for some reason
It would have missed the writer's strike entirely and probably would have been fine. Also Lindelof would have been allowed to end early like he intended because netflix and prime show's seem to have more creative freedom because they don't care as much about cash cow shows and care more about dropping a lot of varied content that shares the viewership.
That said, without the water-cooler conversation it wouldn't have been the same show any more and I wouldn't care about it. That show could have gone in any direction and they were very influenced by the audience.
lindelof's writing is a constant cocktease to get you hooked for the next episode every single time. i think with twitter and all the bitchy internet discourse there is these days beyond just dedicated fans it would get dragged for this and never take off or rather start with a crash landing
The reason LOST was big was because social media didn't exist yet. This means that everyone would talk about the show IRL, family gatherings, uni, workplaces. Everywhere people would talk about the show and tell their personal theories about what was going on which were actually invented by themselves and not just read up or shared online.
This made the show almost a sort of community phenomenon where you needed to watch it purely because so much of conversations were going to be about it. This is completely different from breaking bad or game of thrones because breaking bad only got popular in its third season and it wasn't really a show you talked about with friends. Game of Thrones became saturated with shared youtube theories and all kinds of dumb background lore and nobody talked about it beyond the surface level stuff like "I'm house X, Y is my favorite characyer".
I truly feel bad for the zoomers that didn't experience the magic of LOST ongoing and EVERYONE watching it. Literally everyone, all your friends, your girlfriend and her friends, Your classmates, your colleagues, your teachers, your parents, your family, your grandparents. EVERYONE
It was the mid 2000s, not the 90s. Forums existed. Fan websites existed. Even before Facebook there was myspace and overblog. I doubt any are still up today, and even fewer with posts from before 2013, but they definitely did exist. People did share theories, and those would be shared in threads and across forums.
That's what I miss about the 2000s. Instead of having just one subreddit and one hashtag, each forum would have its own general discussion board with its own thread about whatever.
No normalfag actually used any of that shit though. Myspace was for weird emo teenagers and "those" kids. Forums was for specific hobbyists and enthusiasts. It was different and the vast majority of LOST discussion was outside of it. I personally never even read anything about the show online except for the very last seasons on Yea Forums
True but from what I remember it was around 2008/9 that Twitter and Facebook became ubiquitous. Before that it was only a small percentage of people that would be exposing themselves to things like fan theories online.
Both this.
Social media as we know it today started in the 2008
>All I remember is shooping hats onto the actors for some reason
based
Was Lost the last time a basic network primetime show became a pop culture phenomenon? After that, all the big shows have exclusively been on networks like AMD, premium cable channels like HBO, or hosted by services like netflix.
Nobody even watches basic network primetime anymore except boomers and their boomer police procedurals. What happened?
Twitter didn't get popular until later. I remember it becoming the new "trendy" thing around 2010-2011. Before that, people just did the equivalent on facebook, with those cancerous statuses.
Reality TV and the "background television" happened. Basically people started to use the television more like background noise generators instead of actually paying attention.
My boomer mom just keeps her TV on 24/7 while talking to her cats and doing all kinds of other useless shit. Which is me and my siblings never visit her. When I do it's fucking annoying because the television is just continuously screaming at high volumes while I am trying to listen or speak to someone else over the television. Their generation is completely ruined by TV. I doubt my mom is ever going to step over to the digital world.
but the cancer of reality TV occurred before Lost even aired. Mid 2000s was the height of that shit. So that doesn't explain it.
>social media didn't exist yet
>myspace (year before LOST)
>facebook (same year as LOST)
>livejournal (5 years before LOST)
>xanga (5 years before LOST)
>friendster (2 years before LOST)
None of that was used by people you fucking autist. I didn't mean the actual technical invention of social media. I meant the entire mindset of what people call social media. Absolutely no one used any of that shit during LOSTs run.
Facebook wasn't even relevant until late 2000's
Myspace died long before social media became a thing between normies.
I never heard about the rest you named
>I never heard about the rest you named
just because you never heard of them doesn't mean they weren't popular
myspace was incredibly popular even among normies, just not moms
Myspace was for emos and weird teenagers. Not actual functional adults. And even then it was niche.
by 06 myspace had over 75,000,000 unique visitors per month
Still not relevant enough.
Social media didn't took over until smartphones became a thing
He didn't argue that it did.
>75M users isn't relevant
cope harder
It was on during Sopranos and smoked it in ratings. inb4 hbo isn't free. LOST had a way bigger buzz to it. No one cared about missing an episode of the sopranos.
Watching the first episode right now. Lost is still comfy
In this current era it might have gotten help and had a better ending, because Disney is so powerful, probably could've influenced JJ back to the writers table assuming LOST ended before Rise of Skywalker, and Carlton and Cuse and possibly could have gotten some help from Feige for shits and giggles.
good theory user, but I think you are wrong. The Lost Wiki already existed back then and I remember wasting so much time just reading "possible" theories about the show or the characters
the setup was great, but it was from the era where good writers would start shows and abandon them to network staff
that's what happened with LOST
If you weren't totally into the darma magic then you didn't do it right
They were so obsessed with getting an ending no one had guessed yet they didn't care if it made any sense
Still the best show ever with a great ending that filters out plebs and brainlets. If you genuinely thought they were dead the whole time you have a single digit IQ.
Dude they were dead and the island was the trial that they had to go through in order to go to heaven
>If you genuinely thought they were dead the whole time
No, only the last season. The ending mainly sucked because it dropped all the mysteries and went with muh feels for the characters instead. There was some vague explanation about the island being a cork but that's it. All the Dharma shit, the numbers, giant foot, it amounted to nothing.
>or rather start with a crash landing
Ba duhn tiss
>lol it was all a dream
this only works if you're Bob Newhart
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You must be a child. Everybody who was computer savvy used myspace. Even dumb normie girls. Its where the duckface came from.
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fucking kys
this
there's a reason "the myspace angle" came into common vernacular in the mid 2000s
No.
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Post the memes faggots
>I was only 4 years old when Myspace was big, therefore nobody used it!
How about you kys for being such a dumb zoomer
Dude you're a retard, I'm not whoever it is that you're mad at whom I'm guessing is your mother. No I fucking told you to kys because you fucked up my awesome combo you fucking autist fuck. I shit on you
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That's cute you guys. But Twin Peaks was the first of its kind in this regard.
p.s. It's better than all the rest.
p.p.s. season 3 is even kinoer
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FUCKING RUINING MY SHIT WITH A POST THAT ISN'T EVEN ABOUT FUCKING SHOW YOU OFF-TOPIC SHILL! FUCK YOU AND FUCK EVERYONE YOU KNOW
Eh, myspace wasn't big in my country. Today, if it's not global excluding Asia it's a flop.
seriously this
it was so big boomers are STILL calling social media "face space"
The USA is the only important nation on earth. Why would myspace being big in Sierra Leone be relevant at all
imagine being this slow
Could imagine living in a world without snap, kik insta and tinder? Lmao fucking caveman
post evangaline u gay fks
her deepfakes r so gd
Never fails to make me laugh.
Politics would ruin it now. while tame most of the show isn't pc for tv now.
Other guy, post the one with the helicopter/kate episode
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LOST was ahead of it's time. It perfected the downward spiral into awfulness capped off with a notoriously shitty final season years before GoT existed. Absolutely based.
Thanks
Nothing will ever be as comfy as Lost.
Fuck all these yahoos
Like Kate, eh? Too be fair Claire was worse.
Do you think they're going to bring it back at some point? They could easily come up with random shit for nostalgiabucks.
Kek
zoomer
Remember how Kate suddenly wanted to be #MeToo?
the 2007s were something else
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