A few years ago I had shoulder surgery. Totally painful. Complete with instructions like sleep upright for the first 30 days. I was beside myself. The pain medication worked the opposite on me (I barely slept) so the first week was particularly difficult.
Until my son came up from Manhattan to spend the weekend with me and introduced me to LOST.
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My son was a member of that large number of people, like 10-15 million US viewers each season, who were obsessed with LOST. I may have been the only person in my country not to have seen even one episode. Airing from 2004-2010, LOST offered a combination of the supernatural, adventure/romance/betrayal and science fiction. Definitely a winning combination.
How was I left out of that loop? That’s an easy one to answer. I just couldn’t, in those days, nor in today’s culture of Netflix and Hulu, sit down and watch a weekly show on the nights it aired.
But my son had the entire series on DVD.
He watched the pilot episode with me and I was hooked. It kept me away from my pain and thrust me into the characters’ pain, joy, love and fear.
Then I understood the obsession. Especially since obsession is my default mode. And I understand why, when I would periodically call my friend, she would practically yell into the phone “LOST IS ON I CAN’T TALK.”
And what’s not to like about the series? That’s why I’m watching it a second time on Netflix.
So on all of those nights when I couldn’t sleep, and during all of the days that I hurt, I plowed through the 6 years of the series.
I could forget all about the pain and get lost in LOST.
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I am still out of that loop. Never saw an episode! Guess I will need to hurt my shoulder….
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Or just watch the pilot. I moved on to Game of Thrones and am now in Season 2 of Empire. But I’m also watching LOST and GoT for a second time. Without being injured lol.
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I so miss that show!! I was one of the obsessed. I work in programming and systems. My daily job (since college) has been making logic out of business processes. For me this is like playing with puzzles all day long – love it. Lost on the other hand was mind bending! I would think I had a solution as to what was happening and the next episode would shatter all my theories. The show had everyone in the IT department hooked! Glad you enjoyed it. Too bad you needed surgery to discover it. I find binge watching so much more intense than getting a weekly dose of a
show. No wonder it help with your pain management.
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Thanks! And I agree completely. LOST also introduced this recovering alcoholic to the joys of binge watching a show lol. You made an interesting point about the show being mind bending.
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Never watched it either. Maybe add it to my Netflix watch list for the future.
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It’s awesome.
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LOVE a good boxset. I think we talked about this before 😊we are currently watching The Sopranos for the first time. ..was travelling first time around and missed it. Ironically I was living in New Jersey for part of that time😁loving the show though . Your injury sounded rough going x
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Omg The Sopranos is awesome!! At that is ironical. The shoulder was rough. I severed my rotator cuff because I’m clumsy and tripped. Too bad it wasn’t just a skinned elbow!
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Verbs like ‘sever’ never should have to appear in a sentence about your own body. Unless it is dialogue for The Sopranos. ..double irony wham!! Glad you are moving past it though x
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BOOM! And it was a long time ago. The only remnant that I have is knowing when it’s going to rain. I truly am turning into my mother. Ha!
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Ah yes the weather forecast wound😊glad that is all you have left of the injury.
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I watched a couple of series then lost the thread… did it ever reach any actual conclusion or was it a sort of ‘left hanging’ ending?
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I can’t tell you. It would spoil it. But I actually mean that. The ending could be open to some interpretation, but the inference was pretty easy to guess. I know that sounds like the vaguest thing ever, but in case someone out there doesn’t know, I don’t want to give them my thoughts.
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Understood. 🙂
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Oh and sorry about your shoulder – did it recover fully?
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Yes it did, thank you for asking. It turns out that getting aches before a storm isn’t an old wives tale as I always thought, but is due to barometric pressure. My mom was right, after all. 😃
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I saw the series finale. Had no idea what was going on. I also saw about 10 minutes of a random episode of the one of the season when there was a spaceship on the island, or something? I don’t know. Outside of the fact a plane crashed and they were stranded, nothing else interested me enough to watch it. And when I kept hearing that the storyline was confusing, that was the final nail for me.
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I didn’t think the story line was confusing, but if you don’t like sci fi and or supernatural stuff, then you wouldn’t like the show. And only seeing the last episode of a 6 year show? Of COURSE you wouldn’t know what was going on.
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Haha I never said I expected to understand what was going on. Yeah, I normally stay away from the sci fi and supernatural stuff, except for Harry Potter.
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If I could be Hermione, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Harry Potter is another series I’ve read numerous times. The movies are great, too.
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I never finished book 2 and I did a book report on it. (Thanks for the help, mom!). I’ve seen the movies, of course.
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My brother has all the books in First Editions.and you think I’m obsessed with things! How could you not finish it? Didn’t you want to know what happened? Or did you skip the book and jump right to the movie?
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I think it was a combination of I had seen the movie and I ran out of time to finish the book before the assignment due date. And why would I read a book after a due date?? (An 11 year olds mindset)
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Ha!
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Heheheh! I was completely lost watching lost and I gave up after a few episodes. I admire your resilience for plowing through the entire 6 years of Lost, Barb! 🙂
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I’m addicted to anything I’ve tried twice and enjoyed.
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You should watch “Revenge” next 🤓
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