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Originally Posted by Infinite Improbability
Okay, here's the kicker: step into your Wayback Machine and go forward in time fifty years. Ask anyone if they've seen Lost. I'll bet you get a negative. Ask if they've seen Star Trek: The Original Series. Positive. No question.
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Honest answer? Lost.
How many people have seen
Safety Last! with Harold Lloyd? Not me, I know. How many people know the scene with him hanging from a clock-face? I'd wager quite a few.
Or a closer example: How many people have seen Fritz Lang's
Metropolis?
Lost is doing reasonably new things in a fairly exciting way. Certainly, the very, *VERY* strung out plot is new - how many shows have simply refused to answer the questions they ask?
Finally, predicting the future is a mug's game. I predict in fifty years, more people will recognise 'Pyramids of Mars' as classic sci-fi horror than will know WTF 'The Parting of the Ways' was. I will in all probability be proven wrong
TOS, to be fair, was pretty much just another 'space cowboys' show.