Is it just me or anyone see a pattern?
 

Could be just me having too much time on his hands but it's kinda getting annoying. Ever since the show called Lost came out and became popular, the crappy network keeps getting another show out with some interesting premise and a gimmick being a title with just one word, Heroes, House and Dexter.

Not that I'm saying those aforementioned shows are bad but there are slew of copycat shows with the same gimmicks being previewed to be aired next week.

It gets on my nerves which is why beside the news, I don't ever watch TV.

Sorry, I just wanted to get this off from my mind.

When a template becomes successful it will then be milked to death until the next big thing comes along. I really do hope they know where they are going with Lost. The actual premise is excellent but I think they are dragging it out and hope that they can tie all the loose ends together.

I have heard good things about 'Dexter' but like yourself, I am not a huge watcher of T.V series.

Reality TV is the worst. Theres reality shows based offf other reality shows now.

There's a lot of great one namers out there.

And, they've been around for AGES...

I do agree, however, that TV nowadays is terrible.
There are very few well written shows out there.

Can Curb please come back? It's due next year, yes?

Season 7 of Curb begins filming in December. Larry David is filming a Woody Allen movie right now. So I am guessing season 7 will start to air in May of 2009.

May eh?
I heard that he's still writing...?

I can't wait for that day to come though. I will rejoice.

This is why we should all be watching "Pushing Daisies"

Totally true. You'll always see this in television and movies.

I love LOST, I hope it finishes well. As for the 'copycat' series, I haven't really watched them. So I guess that goes to show that while they're copycat-ing, they aren't as successful or popular as the 'original' ideas.

I like LOST, but it gets pretty ridiculous at times (see the fourth season finale)

Also Benjamin Linus is one of the greatest characters in television history.

I used to like Heroes too, but it really started to suck around season 2.

Lost lost the plot a long time ago (no pun intended). Heroes is becoming a festering pile of shit. Prison Break is the only consistently good show of the three IMO.

I usually watch comedy anyway.

I wish Heroes could be as good as it used to be. Season 2 took the concept way to far.

Yes! Great show all around.

I generally don't really watch TV. I just don't really get much fulfillment from it, so I generally spend my time doing other things.

And why did we need to know this...?

http://lostpedia.com/images/2/2d/AbaddonInstitute.JPG

It's a part of the pattern.

Ahh, isn't that creeper from Fringe? He's awesome.

He's from Lost, too!

Shii, I stopped watching Lost after the second season. :o:

Fair enough, I can definitely understand why... ha :D

Lost is so above everything else on TV right now. Every other show wants to be like Lost but they can't do it.

Fringe is actually a pretty good show. Although some of the concepts are completely farfetched, and the lead actress can get annoying it's still pretty entertaining.

Yeah, Walter is the man!

You obviously have not seen Life On Mars

Life on Mars really?

I chalked that up to the soiled diaper pile of TV.

It's a quality show...oh wait, must be Urban sarcasm.


I love Lost, the last season was a bit rushed though and it got a little corny. Still the first two seasons were so well written and so captivating I'm hooked. Love the literary references that inundate the plot and dialog of the show.

:mad:

Take that back

At least it has characters rather than a checklist of demographic stereotypes.

I happen to love racial and demographic stereotypes.

Me too. All exept for this one:

http://lostpedia.com/images/3/3c/490...ichael.JPG.jpg

Oh and this one,

http://lostpedia.com/images/b/bc/PauloS3.jpg

I dunno man, I think Fringe has been getting worse with each episode. Most of the actors are pretty mediocre, not to mention it's a complete X Files rip off, they need to bring that show back instead.

i like lost but the time travel & moving island shit is hokey and lame

the long hiatuses are frustrating as well

i dont really watch very much tv

I don't watch much TV either, but I think Fringe and Life On Mars are both pretty good.

Eh, I liked Michael.

Paulo just f*cking sucked though, good thing they killed him off.

It was rather inevitable that Lost was gonna make a turn for the bizarre in it's later seasons. And considering all the fan theories there were since the beginning about it being purgatory or having something to do with aliens or an alternate dimension or whatever, time traveling island isn't all that whack in comparison to the other directions the show could have taken, at least it wasn't as predictable.