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Battlestar Galactica, and any other time the writers are just writing down the rabbit hole without having any clue what story they're going to tell. The writers of Battlestar introduced one mystery after another and worked to sell the audience on the belief that they were going somewhere good with all this. They had jack shit and I'm not getting that time back.
Some other offenders:
Star Wars sequels: how the fuck did that get greenlit for like a billion dollars without any living soul knowing what the plot was gonna be
Mulholland Drive: fuck you David Lynch, explain this shit or GTFO. If I want dream logic I'll go to sleep
Lost: J J Abrams you spoiled little rich kid fuckass
Times that didn't happen:
Andor: just an adamantine brick shithouse of storytelling
OMG, Lost! That show sucked and yet so many people I knew loved it. I wondered if it was sunk cost cause the first two seasons were captivating. The rest of the series just dragged on.
Lost and Battlestar Galactica aired approximately in parallel. Being a sci-fi fan, I watched BSG, of course, but many friends watched Lost. It definitely had more mainstream appeal and a higher profile. But from the sounds of things, it really lived up to its name! I’ve always been glad I got into BSG, even if it also went off course for a while.
IIRC BSG got screwed in part by the Hollywood writers’ strike. Did that impact Lost as well?
I'm certain it went exactly like this
https://youtu.be/tpLb7SsqXnM?t=4824