While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

I

don't watch lost. I missed the zeitgeist. I guess you were missing out.

Maybe I could follow the arc of the show by listening to people talk about it.

I first I was missing something really cool and then I was missing something really

exasperating and then it ended dumbly and I felt I felt exonerated.

I guess so. I think lost falls into that Roman TV shows that if it lost you for a split second,

you decided that it was terrible and the worst thing. Like Battlestar. That happened to you too.

The battle star got really dumb. Like the thing both those shows have in common is that they

heaped mystery upon mystery and gave you the impression that the writers had a grand plan and

then when it became obvious that they didn't it like broke your trust and you didn't want to

watch it anymore. Like once you became aware that they were not telling a story but in fact,

you know, making it up as they went on the fly without any regard as to where they were going.

Then you stopped being interested. I guess that might be a fault of

television making though, right? Especially television of that era. Like I think

lost in Battlestar kind of ushered in a bunch of shows that like to use endless mystery building

as their like primary conceit and I don't know if people got tired of it or

what, but I think that now people prefer something like Breaking Bad or even if it

even if the writers are still kind of making it up as they go, which I think that that writing team

was. Like they still had an arc in mind. They still had like a clear beginning and end and they did

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