CLOSE THE POLL
6 episodes in to the rewatch now. Terry OāQuinn is brilliant isnāt he.
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Fucking livid I missed my chance vote this shit show a 1.
Flashbacks are one of the worst forms of storytelling. Combining them with whatās in the box? Fuck the fuck off.
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What about dream sequences?
Oh Holy shit. Yeah fuck them too. Itās basically why I could never pick Sopranos over The Wire. Iāll take every duff edge of S5 of The Wire over the fact they had dream shit in Sopranos
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Ah thatās one of the only acceptable dream sequences Theo! The end of that episode with Moby playing was just gorgeous
(Fuck Gandolfini was so good 
)
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Ah bugger. Still, even though another 1 vote wouldāve been good, it still got the kicking it deserved.
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Most of the time yes, but thereās a comic writer I love who uses them SPECTACULARLY, so I canāt completely write them off.
Always caveats obviously
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I refuse to believe thereās 130 people using this site. Smells like a fix to me.
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hey lurkers why donāt you post
Word of warning, donāt engage with The Others.
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Like that poll when all the Manics fans turned up to vote for them.
Reckon someone (probably Theo) posted this on www.wehateLostandalsofun.com and look where are now
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I think your memory is playing tricks on you. For one thing the Sopranos ran for three years alongside Lost and for another, the āprestige successorā is definitely Mad Men.
Lost definitely benefited from TV becoming bigger but I think it was only bigger because it was also a major network show. Including Dominic Monaghan in the cast helped a lot and it may have been first big show to pull in film talent - I note Glenn Close joined The Shield in 2005. (I feel like this move from film to TV is really what created that thing of TV being taken far more seriously.)
I guess Lost might be the last massive Network TV show, though?
Nah, heās right, mainly for the reasons you state.
Lost was the first major network show to acknowledge the leap forward that the Sopranos had made, in terms of how the network wanted it to be discussed by critics, how they funded it, how they made it, and how they marketed it.
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I donāt recall anyone seeing it as a prestige successor to the Sopranos, though. Thatās different to TV networks responding to the Sopranos, but the TV audience didnāt think of it in that way and they are who shapes how TV is seen that way.
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You didnāt think of it in that way, maybe.
No one was saying, āItās the next Sopranos,ā when it arrived.
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i may have mandela effected myself.
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I only watch TV at one point in the day, which is during dinner (blah blah, very busy with my charity work which means so much to me etc). Think Iāve just got the go-ahead to make dinner time LOST TIME. Yes!
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