If you’ve paid attention to popular entertainment over the last two decades, you’ve probably noticed that the word “mystery” doesn’t mean what it used to.This Substack is reader-supported.
Lost may be the most famous Mystery Box flub, but my first experience of it was with The X-Files. Lots of twists and turns...nothing but twists and turns...
That’s also why streaming shows, no matter the genre are such slop.
It’s just one mystery box episode that ends in a cliffhanger that is immediately resolved in the next episode.
It’s empty calories, mindless slop designed to keep you watching. It has none of the resonance nor satisfaction from watching for example a 2000 era scifi show like Dark Matter or Farscape.
LOST wasn't just a disappointment for many, it angered a lot of people. Few shows have managed top capture so many over so long a period of time like LOST did and so people were justified to be angry at Abrams, Lieber and Lindelof. In a way it was not that dissimilar to lying to someone for years and when you finally come clean you treat the person you've been lying to like their the a-hole for believing your lies. I think LOST many of these guys more then it helped. Yes Abrahams has had a very successful career since but I remember those days and how with each new series he was involved with after LOST like FRINGE and REVOLUTION, co-workers gathering at the cooler/coffee machine would bring up the question is Abrahams pulling another LOST b/c if so then count me out. He may have learned a lesson from LOST b/c in shows like FRINGE which had a number mystery boxes you did get pay off; maybe not for every single mystery but far more than LOST did.
Maybe one day one of these guys involved with the show will write a tell all so we can all finally know what the real deal is; if these guys really had no clue on how they were going answer most of these Q's by the end of the shows run or if they just got lost themselves along the way because they let the story line get to chaotic, too expansive.
Its a real shame with LOST b/c if these guys had properly outlined all of these in advance so they had a plan and stuck to it LOST could have been something unlike any series on the small screen.
Except that Christie cheated. She always withheld critical information from the reader and didn't follow Raymond Chandler's 10 Commandments of mystery writing. As for Holmes: In the beginning of The Hound of the Baskervilles Dr. Watson's explanation makes as much sense as Holmes does. I always wondered if Doyle was poking the reader a bit with that one.
all freemason “art” - which is to say anything protestant or pushed by banking “elite” for the past 500 years, from atheism on down to jrpgs or onlyfans - is just satanic slaves unforgivably blaspheming against any possible Hope they could have had in delusion it would allow them to outpace their shame over sin before their nihilism casts them to the hell their souls are already residing in.
these “works” are recorded suicides in the final attack and denial of The Image Of God In Man, you should not expect anything else from them.
Lost may be the most famous Mystery Box flub, but my first experience of it was with The X-Files. Lots of twists and turns...nothing but twists and turns...
That’s also why streaming shows, no matter the genre are such slop.
It’s just one mystery box episode that ends in a cliffhanger that is immediately resolved in the next episode.
It’s empty calories, mindless slop designed to keep you watching. It has none of the resonance nor satisfaction from watching for example a 2000 era scifi show like Dark Matter or Farscape.
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LOST wasn't just a disappointment for many, it angered a lot of people. Few shows have managed top capture so many over so long a period of time like LOST did and so people were justified to be angry at Abrams, Lieber and Lindelof. In a way it was not that dissimilar to lying to someone for years and when you finally come clean you treat the person you've been lying to like their the a-hole for believing your lies. I think LOST many of these guys more then it helped. Yes Abrahams has had a very successful career since but I remember those days and how with each new series he was involved with after LOST like FRINGE and REVOLUTION, co-workers gathering at the cooler/coffee machine would bring up the question is Abrahams pulling another LOST b/c if so then count me out. He may have learned a lesson from LOST b/c in shows like FRINGE which had a number mystery boxes you did get pay off; maybe not for every single mystery but far more than LOST did.
Maybe one day one of these guys involved with the show will write a tell all so we can all finally know what the real deal is; if these guys really had no clue on how they were going answer most of these Q's by the end of the shows run or if they just got lost themselves along the way because they let the story line get to chaotic, too expansive.
Its a real shame with LOST b/c if these guys had properly outlined all of these in advance so they had a plan and stuck to it LOST could have been something unlike any series on the small screen.
Except that Christie cheated. She always withheld critical information from the reader and didn't follow Raymond Chandler's 10 Commandments of mystery writing. As for Holmes: In the beginning of The Hound of the Baskervilles Dr. Watson's explanation makes as much sense as Holmes does. I always wondered if Doyle was poking the reader a bit with that one.
all freemason “art” - which is to say anything protestant or pushed by banking “elite” for the past 500 years, from atheism on down to jrpgs or onlyfans - is just satanic slaves unforgivably blaspheming against any possible Hope they could have had in delusion it would allow them to outpace their shame over sin before their nihilism casts them to the hell their souls are already residing in.
these “works” are recorded suicides in the final attack and denial of The Image Of God In Man, you should not expect anything else from them.