Man...that scene in Lost was fantastic. Those first 2 seasons were as good as any TV show ever made. But it soon devolved into an entire arsenal of unfired Chekov's Guns with no real payoff. Shame really. So much potential.
Lost is probably one of my favorite shows, and I think it unfairly gets a bad rap. There are definitely a couple of things that go unanswered and some general meandering, but I just can't see this incoherent dumpster fire the entire internet claims it to be.
I think the real problem is that most people watched Lost over the course of multiple years as episodes slowly came out while anticipation and speculation rocketed up to insane heights and then the answers just didn't come fast enough or were maybe a little convoluted if some random detail from two seasons ago wasn't fresh in your mind.
Honestly, in my opinion, Lost is just a show that needs be watched all at once; I binge-watched it over two weeks on Netflix knowing the general opinion about it and kept waiting for it devolve into meaningless chaos and that just never happened.
The series very clearly lacked a cohesive plan. Despite that, it managed to excel in other areas. While the plot was slowly going off the rails and becoming mired in clumsy allegory, I still wanted to know what happened next and enjoyed how bountiful it was in small detail. I can't imagine what that was like watching week-to-week, season-to-season, over the course of many years, but it was, like you said, a fun binge.
I think the real problem is that most people watched Lost over the course of multiple years as episodes slowly came out while anticipation and speculation rocketed up to insane heights and then the answers just didn't come fast enough or were maybe a little convoluted if some random detail from two seasons ago wasn't fresh in your mind.
Honestly, in my opinion, Lost is just a show that needs be watched all at once; I binge-watched it over two weeks on Netflix knowing the general opinion about it and kept waiting for it devolve into meaningless chaos and that just never happened.