Touché on Hedwig but I don't love Lost.
Well I hope you at least liked Lost at some point. You kept watching it. Why watch a show you hate?
But I really think that Hedwig is to you like Rocky Horror is to me. It's that movie that when you tell people you like it they give you funny looks.
I did at one point but as the story "progressed", it became more and more apparent that big chunks of it were completely useless, time-eating Cell Games-esque filler that I could've gone without seeing and still have been able to keep up with the story.
The show started out with a premise of a select group people on a mysterious island, strongly implying that there was some kooky scientific answer and that everyone had special connections to each other, with a few even getting strange benefits from the island. Then it goes into spiritual mode with god-like characters and wonky time travel/alternate streams and throwing in character after character (and I'm not talking about incidental characters, I mean ones they actually gave some sort of story to) while tossing others into the background and/or bumping them off with no real meaning or impact. Then you can actually tell someone in production was all "Oh shit, maybe we shouldn't have killed that one off! I know we'll make them illusions/someone see ghosts/someone crazy/throw them all in flashbacks/alternate times." (Or in the case of Michael, "let's just bring him back and kill him off!") We would
sometimes see dead people before and now it's become expected. What am I watching, fucking Ghost Whisperer?
I also think LOST followed this trend I feel has shown up where shows and movies obsessively concentrate on characters' pasts. Combined with its propensity for character over-saturation, this was almost torturous. Like if old school G.I.Joe did a hour-long episode on the past of every freaking Joe. NOT EVERYONE HAS AN INTERESTING PAST. SOME THINGS CAN BE TOLD AND NOT SHOWN. IF IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO THE STORY, I DO NOT NEED TO SEE IT. I DO NOT GIVE SHIT. Too many times we were shown pasts to characters we never had to see or ones we did need to know but for unwarranted lengths of time.
Granted, I'll end up watching the last season anyway because I need to know how they're ending this shit, but I'm likely to do so with DVDs I can skip the hell out of.
And I have never seen Rocky Horror. Been meaning to, but when I would turn it on I would just tune out.
