Its hilarious how this show thrived on mystery bullshit, theories, and looking for hidden meanings among its autistic fanbase only for the writers to just admit a lot of stuff is meaningless and wasn't even on their mind at all and fans were just overthinking.

>>219826927
>Its hilarious how this show thrived on mystery bullshit, theories, and looking for hidden meanings among its autistic fanbase only for the writers to just admit a lot of stuff is meaningless and wasn't even on their mind at all and fans were just overthinking.
Its kind of sad how we can really never have another Lost because the bullshitting is too obvious now.

If Lost were NEW today, would it work? Can mysteryboxes be done right?

>>219826927
The bothersome part is that they're too lazy to terminally online and steal the better fan ideas.

>>219827005
>The bothersome part is that they're too lazy to terminally online and steal the better fan ideas.
Sort of what Scott Adams did with Catbert before he was called Catbert, or making the prince of insufficient light related to the pointy haired boss.

>>219826835
Game of Thrones. Stranger Things wasn't nearly as bad

>>219826927
that's literally every mysterybox show, even Twin Peaks which I like

>>219826962
>If Lost were NEW today, would it work?
Probably not. It would be on a streaming service with much shorter seasons Nobody is getting invested in characters you only saw for one weekend every 2 years. LOST got buzz 20 years ago because it was doing things that were never expected on a network TV show.

>>219827067
Game of Thrones is still highly regarded in the first few seasons and the spinoff shows are still popular

>>219826962
>If Lost were NEW today, would it work? Can mysteryboxes be done right?
Lost is ongoing at the moment, it's 3rd season will be released just tomorrow. It's got a slightly different name this time - From.
Its made by the same people and it has one of the Lost cast.

>>219828104
Don't bullshit me anon.
Is this FROM show I've been ignoring for years actually good?

>>219826835
If this show had only had one season, it would have been one of the best shows in history.

>>219826962
LOST had genuine humanity and soul to it, and the deft hand of Damon Lindelof guiding it. It wasn't just random mysterbox slop.

>>219828489
>the deft hand of Damon Lindelof
He is one of the worst hacks in Hollywood

>>219828651
Then explain The Leftovers

>>219828748
Never watched that one, I was thinking of Lost, HBO Watchmen, the Star Trek movies, Prometheus and Cowboys vs Aliens.
I've heard The Leftovers is good but not from people I usually trust on the matter.

I'd argue GoT had a far bigger fall from popularity to being completely memory holed

>>219826835
GoT and AoT were both worse. Stranger Things was just mid, AoT raped itself so bad that even the earlier chapters are now tainted.

>>219826927
Neon Genesis Evangelion

>>219828140
It's shit but it's fun to watch. From threads on /tv/ are kino.

>>219827067
Game of Thrones has multiple spin offs. The last season was unbelievably bad though.

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>>219829009
What are you guys on? GoT is still referenced all the time, and in anime circles so is AoT. This wasn't a question about falloff in quality or appeal, it was a question about the decline in relevance and discussion.

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>GoT is still referenced all the tim
Where?

Yep

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Tales from '85 is coming

>>219827067
Except got has successful spin offs I doubt stranger shit will

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people still talk about Byler

>>219828830
Damon can be a great writer but he just needs a 'tard wrangler. Carlton Cuse was that on LOST and Tom Perrota was that on the Leftovers.

>>219828489
No it didn’t stop saying old is better when it wasn’t moron

>>219826927
The documentary was such a mistake, It's hilarious how they clearly thought that it would be their legacy but it actually exposed how incompetent they are.

>>219826962
They can be done decently, but the trick is that you need to decide what the answers to the mysteries are and have the hints make sense instead of throwing random shit at the wall and then try to make it fit at the end or pull out a 'nothing matters' ending to invalidate all the mysteries.

>>219826835
I watched the final season after I read that article where Matt Damon said that Netflix had rules where you had to repeat the plot every 20 minutes and holy shit it happens like clockwork in the final season. They just verbally repeat the plot to each other over and over again, that's 75% of what happens on screen. All the other horrible shit didn't help, like incredibly cheap production values, bad or no acting from everyone except harbour, gaten, and joe. it also ended for like 45 minutes which was hilarious that anyone thought there would be a secret episode.

>>219826835
In terms of its influence on pop culture, it's less that Stranger Things fell off after season 5 and more that it fell off during the absurdly long timespan between seasons 4 and 5. THREE YEARS. This meant only the cultiest of cult fans stuck around and dominated the conversation with insane shit like ComformityGate which was more entertaining than the show itself.

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Twin Peaks had a 25 year gap and it didn't hurt its populairty

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holly a cute

Mystery Box shows never ever do well. They have a hook in the beginning (the mystery box) and then they are complete shit when the writers can't competently write a satisfying mystery. LOST, From, The Blacklist, Battlestar Galactica.

>>219832582
Half of lost and 90% of the flashbacks were about the characters themselves and their back stories. Unrelated to the island or the mysteries. Fucking idiot.