Interesting piece in New York magazine
http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/23763/index.html
The basic premise of the article: And for anyone who didn’t sign on from the beginning, there’s little incentive to catch up now. Why invest hours wading through past DVDs when your co-workers are grousing that the mysteries still haven’t paid off?
The argument: We need the TV equivalent of a novella: the limited-run show. Series driven by a central mystery (Twin Peaks, The X-Files) peter out precisely because they have indefinite life spans. The writers are forced to serve up red herrings until the shows choke on their own plot twists. (Whereas 24 works because it’s more cliff-hanger than puzzle—though Jack Bauer is surely the unluckiest man alive.)
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God Bless You Daneman for giving me something to read about Lost during my lunch hour when I don't feel like working on work. Wait, do I ever feel like working on work?
I never thought of the fact that Lost won't work in syndication. Why would I? But that's a GREAT and interesting point. The X-files is in syndication though, but I guess the storyline does work for that show whereas for Lost it'd be awful since syndicated shows end up out of order and on two or three networds in various seasons...
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