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manticorpse t1_jabox7u wrote

Reply to comment by Digitalizing in Finally giving LOST a watch in 2023. by shadowdra126

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.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jacpjwb wrote

>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.

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DevilsAdhesive t1_jadjkma wrote

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.

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