Canadiens1160 said:
I haven't seen this show yet. So it's basically Lost except instead of a plane crash there's a bank robbery?
NO.
Lost is 1000x plot with little attempt at making you care about the characters. Furthermore, the plot that it relies on gets more and more unbelievable each week. What started as a decent show about how people survived after surviving a plane wreck on an island has turned into an uncompelling, unrealistic show about an island that happens to have a network of computers underground, various types of machinery that you'd expect to find in sci-fi novels, cults and cult leaders, and those mystical 'others'. And into the third year of this, the show still hasn't told me enough about the characters to make me care what happens to them in ANY plot.
In The Nine, so far, there seems to be a MUCH better balance between plot and character. In three episodes, I know more about the characters in this show than I do about the characters in Lost after 2 seasons and a few episodes. Thus making me care about the characters, thus making me care about the plot. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the plot is plausible here, where in Lost it is about as plausible as talking animals.
I realize I seem a bit hard on Lost here, but I just think it's stupid that a show that was supposed to be about the survivors of a plane wreck on an island - and that premise had/has a TON of potential with the psychological and physical effects of being cut off from society while living with the fear of not knowing if you're going to live or die, if you're ever going to get off the island or not, etc - has turned into what it is now.
The Tom Hanks movie 'Castaway' is a much better, much more realistic depicition of someone getting stranded on an island after a planewreck.
Pretaining to your statement - If 'Lost' centered around the lives of the characters AFTER being rescued and coming back to society, then you could make a comparison. As is, you cannot.