Originally Posted by
Volband
That is such a terrible analogy lol. Abrams was mostly involved in the pitch of lost, and working on the foundations. How can you blame him for an unsatisfying season 6 finale, when he barely had anything to do with the show since season 1? Whether you love or hate Lost, it's all on Lindelof and Lieber.
Also, a TV series has to go on. You have to bullshit your way to the next seasons, and this is especially true for non-cable shows. You can't pull a Watchmen on a network like ABC, especially not 10+ years ago.
As much as Abrams is possibly deeply involved with the travesty that is ROS, the hate boner for him is ridiculous. He already proved himself with TFA, which was a very contained movie. Not only you are factually wrong with associating the success/failure of Lost with him, TFA was nothing like the Lost pilot. Lost pilot had smoke monsters, people surviving a plane crash, wheel chaired guy walking again, dead bodies disappearing from coffins, etc. Lost's initial appeal was full of these hype monsters. If you think that the Knights of Ren or Rey's parents possibly being important is on equal terms with something like the Lost pilot, then you don't even care, you just want to bash Abrams for the sake of bashing him.
People can argue about how good or bad TFA was, but no one can deny that it could have gone anywhere, because it was a solid foundation, and even if the story elements were very light, it succeeded in the most important thing: introducing interesting and likeable new characters. I think you should wait 20-30 years to try to retrospectively deny these things and claim that he is a hack and he ruined everything.