Digitalizing t1_jaa0up1 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:55 PM

Considering how many fans of the show who watched it all intently, still to this day, don't understand the blatantly clear final season astounds me. There is actually a good chance you have no idea what the real ending is since it's incorrectly summarised a majority of the time.

manticorpse t1_jabox7u wrote on February 28, 2023 at 7:17 AM

Turns out a lot of people aren't great at story analysis or like... the tv-watching equivalent of reading comprehension.

When Lost's finale first aired, I might have blamed the scattershot release schedule, or confused post-finale water-cooler conversations. Nowadays, I wonder if half the problem is that people are "watching" while dicking around on their phones.

Queasy_Turnover t1_jacpjwb wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:24 PM

>Nowadays, I wonder if half the problem is that people are "watching" while dicking around on their phones.

That's almost certainly the issue a lot of the time. I recently learned that a friend of mine watches shows on a side TV that sits next to his main TV while he plays video games. People can do what they want but that is insane to me.

DevilsAdhesive t1_jadjkma wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:42 PM

Part of this I think was due to the schedule that last season which ABC majorly dropped the ball on. You'd have 2 episodes, then 4 repeats, then a random new episode, then a break of 3 weeks. I think a lot of people missed the plot like this. Streaming wasn't a thing at the time (save for pirate streaming) so a lot of people couldn't catch up on what they missed.