NO. You can’t change the past or future in LOSTs version of time travel. Sayid ALWAYS shot young Ben. He’ll survive, and because of this incident, will grow up to the person he is today.

Don’t make time travel harder then in needs to be. Faraday had said it a bunch of times…. WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED!

It’s funny… that’s the title of the episode tonight.

if you look at the ratings history, it will obvious for you too.

No. There’s no possible way there isn’t any sort of clause to cancel the show if the ratings drop too low. They won’t, and LOST will finish its stated last season, but if the ratings dropped low enough, LOST would be off the air.

And you seem to forget that Idol’s regular spot is up against LOST. (Plus, the March Madness coverage had nothing to do with Idol moving.)

LOST is contracted for the rest of S5 and all of S6 so 1 person could be the only one watching and it would still be on TV.

Obama needs to only be on “The President Channel” instead of every network, when he has to talk to us – better yet, give us a web address and we’ll watch it streaming live instead. I’m not paying for cable so he can interrupt me when he wants. ESPN doesn’t broadcast it’s sports on Cartoon Network so why should Obama broadcast everywhere? I still didn’t watch him so broadcasting on every major network did him no good to reach me.

This episode of LOST was rather dull until Sayid blew “little Ben” away. That was clearly the coolest thing since…. I dont know what. I was like “Oh yeahhhh!!! So what happened to adult Ben? Did he vanish? Or does he still exist on the other timeline?

This season has been a bit slow at times. But in the end the ratings wont matter much since the series is heading into the home stretch ending next Season and the Demos are still good.. Hope it picks up the action and goes out with a bang.

I’ll miss that show

Anyway, I was just curious as to whether or not it is common for the final episodes of a cancelled show to see an uptick in the ratings like this (particularly a semi-serialized show like Life on Mars).

Yes, AI is garbage, and i don’t understand people wasting 2 hours of their primetime on such a garbage.

And Chopping Block’s rating is so bad!!! It has CW numbers!

Bye Better Off Ted. You’re the best show I never watched.

“The passion that we regular viewers feel is because we know the characters so well. The acting and the writing is so good, that we can feel every emotion of every character, understand completely every glance, every silent glare, every thought of the character in a scene.”

You can count this regular viewer out of that (somewhat disturbing) generalization.

ABC has countered programed as well. Its also Spring Break so people are doing things other than watching TV.

I don’t always go rooting for Heroes here, but what is the greatest thing about Chuck.

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That said, Lost is a show that the uninitiated could drop into even now and still enjoy. Not “understand” fully, but they could definitely enjoy it. It’s just that entertaining on a week-to-week basis.”

Excellent description of how a serialized show SHOULD be in terms of results! I don’t know if it’s true of Lost since I’ve never watched it, but it SHOULD be true of any serial show that wants to survive.

Well said. Can you explain HOW they manage to be that compelling?

I wonder why the fanboys need to remind everyone on a ratings site how wonderful Lost is and how stupid or without taste everyone who are not watching are…One thing I did notice the lower the ratings goes the more of those comments we get, no matter the show, must a be a defense mechanism.

As for how many awards Lost won versus CM, on a ratings site this arguments hold no water, it is the ultimate arguments of the fans of fading shows, we sure got those comments from the Pushing Daisies fans as the show ratings went downhill. Beside, awards have nothing to do with quality but politics and what is the flavor of the month among the critics. You want to know if people like a show, look at the weekly top 20 shows and you will see that people love NCIS, Mentalist, CSI, CM, AI, DWTS, Grey’s, DH and it doesn’t matter if they won awards or not, people will watch if they like it.

As for last night ratings, Criminal Minds did good this week, ratings were up from last week. Lost ratings are down again and AI is still a ratings monster.
I’m dissapointed in CSI:NY ratings, that show should be doing better since it isn’t facing AI and L&O is a shadow of its former self.

The Mentalist can do the same >4 demo and far more viewers and NCIS does high 3s and more than twice the viewers in a lower HUT level 8pm slot against Idol. So unless Lost can go back up about half a demo point, when it’s up against the weaker Wednesday results show again next week, more like among the best.

ABC is creaming over anything that get a 4.0 or better. In any case, it matters little, because Lost is not getting cancelled, and it’s return on investment is solid. It’s DVD numbers are among the best of all time, which means its studio does not have to charge as much for it as it would for it as its budget would suggest.

Also, for the most serialized show in television history to still be a top demo show five years in is mindboggling. They never comprimise, never pander to get ratings, and have less exposition per season than 24 has per scene. Yet they still get boffo demo numbers week in and week out for a show that requires vigilant viewing in order to really understand it.

That said, Lost is a show that the uninitiated could drop into even now and still enjoy. Not “understand” fully, but they could definitely enjoy it. It’s just that entertaining on a week-to-week basis.

Anyway, just had to add that in, because I literally just read that 2 minutes ago on *ahem* another TV website.

I’m sure they’d be happy to just a couple of solid performers that could get them 8-10 million viewers and a 3 to 3.5 demo. With the strong hits they have, I’m not sure why they’ve struggled to find these types of shows. With the exception of B&S and PP, ABC has had nothing but bombs following their mega hit shows in the last few years. Fox has managed to successfully build a powerhouse based of the strength of AI, but ABC has struggled despite having several hits nearly as big (well, at least they were at one time…lol)

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It’s great to see Lost getting thrashed and also great to see all the fanboys out with their excuses for the low ratings. Let’s face it the show has been garbage since season 2 so don’t bother blaming Idol or Criminal Minds.