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    ] ]6:37am From: j...@johndoherty.com   
      
   ]Lost is still terrific; it's just the most demanding   
   ] show in the history of network TV. It requires   
   ] you to know about 30 main characters, and   
   ] often byzantine interrelations of those   
   ] characters.   
      
   If Lost is so "terrific" why are you not posting in the Lost News Group?   
      
   ]This season, we have been following two   
   ] simultaneous plots occurring 30 years apart;   
   ] the "current" (i.e.2007) people on the island   
   ] and the group of Lostaways blasted back in   
   ] time into the Dharma initiative in 1974-77.   
   ]It's a post Sopranos show that requires much   
   ] more than your average show in terms of   
   ] intelligence, attention and willingness to   
   ] connect the dots, both in any given episode   
   ] and in the big plot developments. It's   
   ] terrifically ambitious, and we will likely never   
   ] see its likes again, at least on network TV.   
      
   They are just making it up as they go along! I knew that right after the   
   first season, but I stayed with the show through season 3. And like I   
   said, when it became a 20 quesions for every 1 answer show, I stoped   
   watching it. Every week was just more of the same, more and more   
   questions. It was no longer any fun watching it.   
      
   ]The Sopranos had less viewers as it went on,   
   ] too-- and that's the smartest show that ever   
   ] aired.   
      
   I hated the "Sopranos", and the glorification of the Mafia. For the most   
   part it was boring! It was not a smart show at all in fact it was pretty   
   dumb. I could not understand it's popularity at all, unless people   
   enjoyed all the outrageous violence depicted on the show. I thought it   
   was over the top, way over the top!   
      
   Remember the smartest show that ever aired was, "The X-FIles"!  ;-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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