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How the Lost finale made me lose my trust in TV

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Lost TV series has ruined me for all new TV since its finale aired on 23 May 2010.

i don’t mean that no other show has come close to matching its high octane suspense with a small dose of WTF. I mean that since spending 6 nail biting, hair pulling seasons of watching Lost, I had expected to be thorouhhly surprised and entertained for the finale. Instead, we got an episode that spilled the beans on why all those lost (pardon the pun) souls were on that forsaken island. And the answer could have been found based on one of the rumours that circulated back in season 2. What. A. Waste. Of. Time.

Since then, I give a new TV series 3 seasons to prove itself. If it doesn’t and continually strings its fans along with more answers than questions, I call it quits. This may sound a tad dramatic but Lost has caused me to lose my trust in long running series. It is like a girlfriend that has stood you up one too many times.

However now that there is a gaping hole in my TV viewing schedule (sniff no more Glee, Revenge or Parks and Recreation) I have since loosened this rule to give the following shows another chance: Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars and Supernatural. So a word of warning to TV execs – give your fans enough morsels of satisfaction and plot wind ups during seasons 1 – 3, or lose them forever. Or at least, until the next show comes along.

Some questions to ask before we try to move on from Game of Thrones Season 5

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Warning: This post contains spoilers from the Season 5 finale of Game of Thrones.

While we all lick our wounds after that devastating finale last week of the show that likes to mess with our favourite characters,  lets pause for a moment, put down that tissue – SPOILERS, (come back Jon Snow), and take stock of where some of the other characters are whose plots have been cast aside and abandoned until – looking at you GOT TV writers – season 6.

Where is Margaery?

The last time we saw her she was accused by the High Sparrow and his band of merry men in robes of lying and for being an accessory to the crimes of her brother. The High Sparrow put her in a cell beneath the Sept of Baelor where she is awaiting trial. Will we see her in season 6?

What will Sam do when he finds out Jon Snow is dead?

Sam has ridden off into the sunset with Gilly. His best mate Jon Snow has been assasinated, Julius Caesar style by his Watch. When will he find out? Will he rediscover his courage and enact revenge on his Brothers?

And did Jon Snow actually die? Or will he be reincarnated into his direwolf, appropriately named Ghost, or even reappear in Season 6 as the tree Bran is currently hiding under?