My attempt at watching Lost in order turned into a complete mess

I finally decided to binge Lost last week after all these years. I made it through season 1 in three nights, feeling good. Then I tried watching it in chronological order like some fans suggest, and I got completely lost myself. I spent more time looking up episode guides than actually watching the show. By day 5 I had watched the same flashback scene three times because I kept mixing up the timeline. Has anyone else tried a weird viewing order and just totally given up halfway through?

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davis.emma10d agoMost Upvoted

Episode 7 of season 2 put me on the wrong track twice because I kept confusing which character was in a flashback and which was in the present. It's like how people plan a trip with six different apps and then spend more time checking directions than actually seeing the sights. We just seem to overcomplicate things that were supposed to be simple in the first place.

amyb5410d ago

You said "confusing which character was in a flashback and which was in the present" and honestly, isn't that just bad editing more than us overcomplicating things? I mean, a good show should make it obvious when we're jumping around in time without making us rewind three times. That trip planning analogy hits hard though, because it's like we create these systems to help us but end up lost in the systems themselves. But here's my question: is the real problem that we're just not paying close enough attention, or is it that storytellers have gotten too fancy with their timelines? Because I've seen shows that pull off flashbacks perfectly, and it's never because I had to work extra hard to follow them.