If you watched any of the two hours of fan wankery that was the Lost recap show Sunday night, you might have noticed at least one assertion crop up a few times: That Lost has changed television. And lying tangent to that assertion, wrapped up in all those tender fan farewells (and other commentaries ), was the notion that Lost also changed The Way We Watch Television. That, like nothing before it, Lost has rallied us out of our little nerd hideouts to the Internet (or wherever) to theorize, commiserate, fawn or flame. That somehow, before Lost, we didn’t realize the rhetorical power of the medium and were only passive TV watchers. So on this, the day we used to crowd around our laptops to visit The Fuselage or Live Journal or, I don’t know, Fanfiction.net, I say, “Oh, come on. Let’s give ourselves more credit here.”
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Has Lost REALLY Changed The Way We Watch Television?
