Guest Chaos Pudding Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Well' date=' I'd prefer it if I had an obligation to actually like the characters first.[/quote'] Well, I can't think of anything in the first episodes that would make you hate the characters. Honestly, it's the first episode, and you didn't even finish it. What would it have taken to make you like the characters that you've met at this point? Hell, the only information you have so far is that Jack is a doctor and he's running around saving people from fallen wreckage and giving CPR to old black ladies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 No, I don't hate the characters, and you've just said what made me have no obligation to like them. I didn't have any real information on them, minus that Jack was a doctor, so it just felt like a group of baseless characters had been thrown at me and expected me to feel for them. =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaos Pudding Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 No' date=' I don't hate the characters, and you've just said what made me have no obligation to like them. I didn't have any real information on them, minus that Jack was a doctor, so it just felt like a group of baseless characters had been thrown at me and expected me to feel for them. =\[/quote'] How do you expect anyone to be able to make you like a character halfway through the first episode of anything? Like I said, you don't have the right to say that because you didn't even finish the first episode! I mean, seriously. If you only watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of NGE, you could shut it off and make the same point you're making for Lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 No' date=' I don't hate the characters, and you've just said what made me have no obligation to like them. I didn't have any real information on them, minus that Jack was a doctor, so it just felt like a group of baseless characters had been thrown at me and expected me to feel for them. =\[/quote'] How do you expect anyone to be able to make you like a character halfway through the first episode of anything? Like I said, you don't have the right to say that because you didn't even finish the first episode! I mean, seriously. If you only watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of NGE, you could shut it off and make the same point you're making for Lost. That's not difficult when the episode's are an hour long. I have the right to say that, because I have the right to say anything I want, it's up to you to decide whether you consider it valid or not. Except it wouldn't be fair if I watched 45 minutes of Lost, and 5 minutes of NGE. I watched 45 minutes of NGE and fell in love with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Is Lost the show where people are stuck on an island or some bullshit? If not, I have no fuxing idea what Lost is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eury Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Is Lost the show where people are stuck on an island or some bullshit? If not' date=' I have no fuxing idea what Lost is.[/quote'] Yeah. I too find it boring. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaos Pudding Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Is Lost the show where people are stuck on an island or some bullshit? If not' date=' I have no fuxing idea what Lost is.[/quote'] I honestly can't explain what Lost is. Maybe initially it was that, but even by the 4th episode it became something much more than that. It's a show about people superficially lost on an island, but they're metaphorically lost in their lives, too. It's a show about good versus evil, fate vs coincidence, destiny vs free will, damnation and redemption. And that's just the surface. It's capable of being watched on multiple levels, and each one is just as satisfying as the other.No' date=' I don't hate the characters, and you've just said what made me have no obligation to like them. I didn't have any real information on them, minus that Jack was a doctor, so it just felt like a group of baseless characters had been thrown at me and expected me to feel for them. =\[/quote'] How do you expect anyone to be able to make you like a character halfway through the first episode of anything? Like I said, you don't have the right to say that because you didn't even finish the first episode! I mean, seriously. If you only watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode of NGE, you could shut it off and make the same point you're making for Lost. That's not difficult when the episode's are an hour long. I have the right to say that, because I have the right to say anything I want, it's up to you to decide whether you consider it valid or not. Except it wouldn't be fair if I watched 45 minutes of Lost, and 5 minutes of NGE. I watched 45 minutes of NGE and fell in love with it. Exactly how much of the first episode of Lost did you watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 I believe I just explained that. Roughly 45 minutes. EDIT: Did some looking up on that. Seems like that it was literally just before the end. =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaos Pudding Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 I believe I just explained that. Roughly 45 minutes. Oh, sorry, didn't understand that. So you basically did watch the whole first episode except for the very end where the pilot got killed by the monster and gets tossed up in the tree. Well, that makes me feel a bit better. The way you were saying it, I thought you just stopped watching after 15 minutes. Anyway, let me go back to your previous post. You seem to be placing the same amount of value of 45 minutes of a show with hour long episodes as 45 minutes of a show with 30 minute long episodes. Instead, you should be valuing it by the number of episodes you watched. For Lost, you watched less than an episode, where with NGE you watched 1.5 episodes. Since the structure of 30 minute shows are inherently different from the structure of hour long shows, it isn't fair to compare them simply by minute values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brushfire Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 I believe I just explained that. Roughly 45 minutes. Oh' date=' sorry, didn't understand that. So you basically did watch the whole first episode except for the very end where the pilot got killed by the monster and gets tossed up in the tree. Well, that makes me feel a bit better. The way you were saying it, I thought you just stopped watching after 15 minutes. Anyway, let me go back to your previous post. You seem to be placing the same amount of value of 45 minutes of a show with hour long episodes as 45 minutes of a show with 30 minute long episodes. Instead, you should be valuing it by the number of episodes you watched. For Lost, you watched less than an episode, where with NGE you watched 1.5 episodes. Since the structure of 30 minute shows are inherently different from the structure of hour long shows, it isn't fair to compare them simply by minute values.[/quote'] Wait, I stopped watching before it got interesting? >_> Well that's pissed me off. And eh, I guess that works, due to the way it's written the Screenwriter's of Lost must feel that they have more time to deal with other things. But at the same time, I need my use of time as it's limited, so watching an hour episode might be all I get in one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chaos Pudding Posted February 7, 2010 Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 I believe I just explained that. Roughly 45 minutes. Oh' date=' sorry, didn't understand that. So you basically did watch the whole first episode except for the very end where the pilot got killed by the monster and gets tossed up in the tree. Well, that makes me feel a bit better. The way you were saying it, I thought you just stopped watching after 15 minutes. Anyway, let me go back to your previous post. You seem to be placing the same amount of value of 45 minutes of a show with hour long episodes as 45 minutes of a show with 30 minute long episodes. Instead, you should be valuing it by the number of episodes you watched. For Lost, you watched less than an episode, where with NGE you watched 1.5 episodes. Since the structure of 30 minute shows are inherently different from the structure of hour long shows, it isn't fair to compare them simply by minute values.[/quote'] Wait, I stopped watching before it got interesting? >_> Well that's pissed me off. And eh, I guess that works, due to the way it's written the Screenwriter's of Lost must feel that they have more time to deal with other things. But at the same time, I need my use of time as it's limited, so watching an hour episode might be all I get in one day. You don't know the half of it. The second part of the Pilot (they filmed them together but broadcast them on separate weeks) introduces Sawyer and Sayid, who are a few of my personal favorites (and favorites of most everyone else) throughout the whole show. And 2 episodes later you run into Locke, who is probably the best example of a tragic hero (emphasis on tragic) ever shown on TV. Oh, and Kate is OK early on, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorrow. Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Sounds like you need to watch some Lost. Or some Dexter. That show is a total win.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimiri of the Muse Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Watch the boondocks, you will be satisfied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Smoke some crack it'll vet you away from the tv for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HORUS Posted February 8, 2010 Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Wait, when was TV not boring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex DeLarge Posted February 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2010 Wait' date=' when was TV not boring?[/quote'] tv was not boring when there was a bit of variety to programs. There were sitcoms, quiz shows, game shows, the kind of stuff people liked watching. Then they started doing shows like x factor and celbrity this and celebrity that and blah blah,blahdy blahdy blah!!!! Nothing is worth watching anymore except reruns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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