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posted by gregaus
No, this is not ファン fiction. I was recently asked if ロスト would find a whole new fan-base in light of a a heavily promoted re-run currently 表示中 on G4. The 質問 seemed easy enough. It's a simple yes または no answer, right? Well, not quite.
As with everything to do with Lost, there are no simple 回答 - and most 回答 simply lead to もっと見る 質問 anyway. I've been in the TV / Media industry long enough to know how cyclical these things are. The fact it's on G4 means it's being exposed to a new younger (mostly male) audience.

But ロスト - によって its nature - has a couple of very major roadblocks when it comes to finding new fans.

The first is a requirement for dedication. Proper, all-consuming, diligent dedication. Casual viewing will simply not suffice. The 秒 is intelligence. I don't mean a high IQ. I mean the ability to think well beyond what's presented to us on the screen and connect (often invisible) dots and transcending the seemingly esoteric nature of the writing. Anyone just watching and not going above and beyond (be that online, 読書 books, researching etc) will very quickly become ロスト and I'd be surprised if any of these people make it beyond the third season.

ロスト viewers (whether they're prepared または not), will also embark on a very challenging and sometimes deeply personal journey. This isn't just any 表示する which is why there's never been one like it before, nor will there be for some time to come.

To fully appreciate it, ロスト needs to be watched によって the kind of person that understands that when Jacob says...

“I didn't pluck any of あなた out of a happy existence. あなた were all flawed. I chose あなた because あなた were like me. あなた were all alone. あなた were all looking for something that あなた couldn't find out there. I chose あなた because あなた needed this place as much as it needed you.”

... he's not just talking to Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley. This was a meta reference directed at every one of us. Anyone who'd stuck with ロスト up until that episode (the 秒 last of the series) would almost definitely have found resonance in those words for their personal life journeys - and recognised the deliberate dual intentions of the speech.
In that moment, the writers (through Jacob's words) reached out into the audience, grabbed us によって the shoulders and reminded us why it is we are such big fans. After all we'd dedicated a great deal of our time and resources to this program. によって any definition, a TV 表示する that's capable of a feat such as this is uniquely and miraculously special.

The characters were not randomly made up from thin air. They were carefully, delicately and dare I say, brilliantly crafted into characters that (love または hate them), had bits of us all in them. We related to them so well in fact, many of us even hated the hero - not because he annoyed us (though he did), but because we knew we shared some his flaws. It may not have been obvious on a first watch, but quickly became so on subsequent viewings.

Oddly enough, it's this very formula that has us still talking about the 表示する so long after it left our screens. We're all still discovering things about ロスト - almost on a daily basis and that's because it was so narratively rich and inextricably complex. These are the things that (at times) had me pulling my hair out when I didn't know what the hell was going on. But being literally and metaphorically ロスト is part and parcel of this journey and why it's still so relevant after all these years.

The point here is that I wonder exactly how a mass resurgence of this 表示する can work without a widespread campaign of some sort that 'frames' ロスト to new viewers. One that's careful not to give anything away that would ruin the experience. A documentary perhaps that re-aligns the Zeitgeist, that ignites a new sense of wonder about the 表示する to those who've only heard about it - または caught a few episodes and thought "WTF" before quickly giving up.

All this is indeed very possible. It just needs the right timing and the right team to put the effort into getting a whole new generation caught in the net and appreciate the 表示する we all know is the best there's ever been.
 Jacob delivers his speech to Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley
Jacob delivers his speech to Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley
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