WE HAVE TO GO BACK: One year ago tonight, Lost ended. It is holding up very well in my memory; I miss having something that big to watch (though, to be fair, I guess Game of Thrones has ambition too -- though no one there's insisting we're the good guys!).
There are aspects of the show I never need to see again -- Jack's flashbacks, The Temple, anything with Boone and Shannon, most of the Tailies stuff -- but by and large, this was a show that aimed high in terms of mythology and emotion, and largely delivered. More like that, please?
Sepinwall has some thoughts: "Setting the mysteries and the oblique clues and frustrating answers aside, 'Lost' mattered. 'Lost' was grand and tragic and funny and exciting and a show that felt not quite like anything that had been tried before - and, based on where its ratings were by the end, and the struggles of all the shows to imitate it, one that may be unlike anything we ever see in the future."
