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Anybody all caught up on From? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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I am equally enjoying and exasperared by From. Who else?

Heads up that if this becomes an active thread, there's gonna be spoilers for the whole series in here.

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[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I hope it doesn't turn into another Lost where we have to wait 7 seasons only to be disappointed with the ending.

It's totally going to lol. I feel like the show creators are great at coming up with big ideas, cool story elements, interesting characters, and good atmosphere, but just can't tie them together.

I'm here for it, though! When Lost was first airing, the showrunners publicly swore up and down that they knew what they were doing. The end result didn't really support that, but this time I'm just expecting it to go off the rails.

My friend and I watch it together, and we now have this inside joke where as soon as a thing that's straight out of the Lost playbook, we text one another with "IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!"

A main character has to deal with withdrawals? IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

Digging to enter a subterranean location that's directly beneath us? IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

The asshole hick, who will probably end up with a redemption arc and we'll later learn has a heart of gold, gets relegated to living alone in a multi-person vehicle. IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

A love triangle nobody is interested in? IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

An oddly specific trope of having a language barrier with only one Asian character? IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

A main character getting pushed out a window of a tall building (setting up an environment for there to be flash-sideways characters)? IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SHOW!

I still like it, though 🙃