I so agree with every word you wrote Brett, I may just cry.

These two tools, Demon and Curse, must absolutely shut the fuck up.

I have to say the explanation was pretty obscure. However, they are experts in hyping their show by dropping hints of spoilers that has served them well. A spoilers blog I like discussing their interview is at http://lost-spoilers-blog.blogspot.com/ . They give the interviews as a part of an effort to keep Lost fresh in the minds of their fans during the winter break, and they really are the best anyone ever has seen at it, after all, they always get people discussing thir show. A lot of the frustration with lack of answers seems to be gender based. A lot of women audience members love the focus on relationships earlier this season. However, they now are signally with the interviews that it is back to more adventure and less emphasis on relationships to try to shore up the other half of their fan base.

People, get a hold of yourself, stop bitchin'. We are only six episodes into season three, there are still 16 thats 16 episodes left for number 3. Have a little faith. Im a huge fan of lost and despite the drop in ratings(who gives a sh*t) i think it is still one of the best shows on tv, always has been always will be.Dont give up on it yet theres still alot of time left.

Mr Eko was boring. I liked Ana Lucia.

the show kinda sucks, and i say that as a fan.
the others had several chances to capture jack and have him do surgery, (like when they let kate go) why'd the have to get michael to lure them back, which could have failed, and in the process, losties killed some others?

why didn't they just ask him to do the surgery without all the terrorizing?

how could there be a second island? is everyone blind?

it's a decent show, but the writers really need to get it together, because it's quickly falling apart under its own weight.

Season 1 and 2 of Lost contained at least one suprising revelation each show. Typically something you didn't see coming. It was fresh. Inventive. Exciting. And sometimes humorous.

Season 3, on the otherhand, is utterly dull. There were a couple of shows that explained the same event over and over again, but from different perspectives, grealy slowing down the pace. Characters died, but not ones we were seeing week to week anymore, or central to the story.

Was anyone else waiting for something significant to occur, only to be let down by the end of each show?

My friends have all remarked at how disappointing this season has been. Two of my friends stopped watching.

This WAS the one show we'd all talk about

Bull.

I stopped watching Lost aftyer season 2 because I told myself if they didn't have at least one plot round itself out it was a sign that they were the worst writers on the planet or they were just making it up as they go. They resolved nothing, not even from season 1, and it became pretty clear the show is nothing more than a commercial version of Twin Peaks throwing out things that make you wonder so you'll come back for more next week. Now I only read TVSquad to find out if they have resolved anything - so far they still haven't - so much for season 3. Keep watching like good little consumers.

Meh.
Lost started boring me in Season 2, as with the rest of you. No answers, for one. The downfall of most of the characters, for another. Yes, I learned in Season 1 to deal with Jack crying in every conversation, Sawyer always getting his ass kicked... I learned to love these things.
But in Season 2 suddenly Locke, one of the few taking charge, became, well, a little schoolgirl. And Sayyid kept trying to take charge, but every plan he came up with ended up failing and failing miserably.

I got, and remain, sick of Locke. Sick of Sayyid. Sick of Charlie (couldn't they have taken him over Boone?) Sick of Claire (and she was hot), sick of pretty much everyone but the love triangle and Hurley. And, I suppose, Desmond. Everyone else... meh.

I was happy seeing Anna-Lucia go. But she took everyone from the back half with her, save Bernard. So... what did we learn from the first half of last season? What did it amount to?

Whatever, I'm still watching, but disinterestedly. I'm actually only 3 episodes into this season. That whole ARG over the summer seemed to answer some questions, but do so in such poor fashion. From what I've been told, though, those answers come into doubt in the episodes I've yet to watch.


Ha, sorry for the poorly written comment here, I'm doing too many things at once.

Unfortunately, I consider myself a fan and have loved the first season, appreciated the second season and have become puzzled with the third season.

Why?

My love for this show has always been about the writing. The character development that Damon and company have put together has always been interesting, but the show *always* dealt with the mystery of the island (or fate?). It was compelling to watch how these characters coped with the unknown.

Until the third season.

IMHO, it seems that too many shortcuts were offered ("hey, let's drop two new characters onto the beach outta nowhere"), or that the writers got too confident (cocky). To center the third season around the Others was a risky move, because viewers would have to experience something really big to keep their interest piqued. In other words, to keep selling the show to the public.

Their approach has failed, because they put together a dismal package that never progressed anywhere. I agree with @TedSez that the show "wandered all over the place" to feature a season with the Others that progressed nowhere; why was it important to drag us away from an excellent story-changing finale (2nd season) and show us nothing of importance?

I can imagine that the ABC execs (who are showing 5 minutes of the show, then 3 minutes of advertising) are keeping an eye on the ratings considering the long break. The bosses must've knew that a strong diversion from a successful storyline would be risky at the beginning of the season, but the writers should know that they're under the microscope now.

It would take such a well-written plot(s) to keep this season from backfiring any further. I hope they do pull it off, because the damage from the first 6 episodes might have damaged the future of this series.

We certainly don't need another ambiguous series like "The Nine," and neither do the executives at ABC.

The relationship between "Lost"'s writer/producers and their audience is this: They promise cake, then show up with a few bread crumbs. Then they do lots of interviews in which they say, "Oh, no, that was cake -- you guys just don't understand what cake tastes like."

As to those who think the audience should either love "Lost" or stop watching, I say: We want to enjoy this show. It could have been, and should have been, one of the most entertaining shows ever. But the storylines aren't "too complicated" for us to understand, and we're not "too impatient" to wait for payoffs that are surely coming one day. The fact is, the stories have wandered all over the place; characters come and go for ridiculous reasons; the sly humor and fun characterizations have given way to torture scenes and soap-opera conflicts; the mysteries aren't being set up in a way that will make sense later; things that are supposed to already be clear aren't; and things that should be made clear at some point obviously never will because the writers haven't figured them out themselves. And to tell the audience "Trust us, this is all for your benefit" over and over doesn't work when you've lost the audience's trust already.