LOST Infographic: Playing the Catchup Game

This post ends with an infographic, detailing a timeline of TV watching spanning six months:

It begins in mid-September 2009, where I found myself armed with a nagging curiosity about the show Lost – a show I had never once watched. For various reasons, the idea of the show intrigued me greatly. Somehow, in all the many Lost conversations I had overheard in years prior, I strangely managed to remember practically nothing in the realm of spoilers. Time travel, something called the smoke monster, and that someone died in season 3: these were the only items of baggage I had accumulated. Not bad.

The final season was only months away from airing. I knew that I had better take action soon if I ever wanted to take part in the experience of watching it live. It was the discovery that the whole show was available on Netflix’s Watch Instantly which spurred me to action. One rainy Saturday later, I was five episodes in to Season 1 and not looking back. In the end, it took me quite a big longer than expected to get fully caught up – but I was able to do so less than two weeks after the premiere episode of Season 6. And tonight, February 17, 2009 – I shall tune in live to watch LOST, fully caught up, for the first time.

Comments

  1. Craig Robinson said:
    at 5:18 pm on February 16th, 2010

    Nice. I recognise most of that pattern. I flew through s1 and s2, watched six episodes of s3… watched a few more in 2009, then finished it a week ago, and then flew through s4 in three days over this last weekend.

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  2. David Potsiadlo said:
    at 5:27 pm on February 16th, 2010

    That’s interesting to hear. I heard on the /Filmcast that the writers/creators didn’t know how many seasons they’d have to tell the whole story, so at some point during the life-cycle of the show the pacing was thrown off a bit. Would be curious to look into this further. Season 3 was rough for me, simply because the plot was expanding a huge amount and I knew I had 3 more seasons to go before catching up — seemed like too much to take in. Glad I stuck with it, though.

    By the way, big fan of your infographics at flipflopflying. Keep it up.

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  3. Craig Robinson said:
    at 7:58 pm on February 16th, 2010

    Yeh, it was knowing about s4 and 5 existing that really stopped me from pushing through; then a guy in a video store was very enthusiastic about it being worth ploughing through to s4.

    Thanks. I like the Sampras/Federer one you did. Very nice.

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