I did a search, it didnt come up...

It is the best show on TV right now, that is all...

I wouldn't put it ahead of the Sopranos, but it is very good. Evangeline Lilly is worth taking a bullet for. [She's dating the Hobbit guy in real life.] Cynthia Watros is great when she cleans up. Claire's too busy futzing around with her baby for us to get a good look at her.

It's very good at times, but very frustrating most of the time. For some reason, unlike Carnivale for example, the mystery keeps growing without any answers getting suggested. I find myself having to psych myself up for it, or else I get pissed for the rest of the night, as last week's cliffhanger just desolved into this week's cliffhanger.

Something that does put me off is all this Internet mystery they're tying in. I (1) just don't have the time to get into that, (2) don't have the patience for it, (3) probably am not web savvy enough to keep up with it, and (4) the one time I tried my computer couldn't figure out the website.

I do worry that the whole unfolding mystery turns out to be a bigger mystery thing will wear off suddenly on the American public's short attention span, and it'll get cut before it can resolve things, e.g., Carnivale, Deadwood.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:I do worry that the whole unfolding mystery turns out to be a bigger mystery thing will wear off suddenly on the American public's short attention span, and it'll get cut before it can resolve things, e.g., Carnivale, Deadwood.

Me, i'm just praying that they really know what's going on, and they're just not making the shit up as they go along, like the X-Files.

The finale was great last night. I know there's been a thread discussing this show in the past, but whether or not it was a C/NC poll i can't recall. Where's Kerble?

Personally I think I would prefer it if it was cut before the whole thing got resolved.

No matter what the resolution is it will be a disappointment so best if it just ended on a high no matter how annoying that might be to some who want there dramas all neatly tied up. It would be great if they did a Kafka and just sort of left it...

However I do think they are making it up as they go along. If they weren't new characters wouldn't just appear without any explanation and no reaction from any one of the principle roles then shortly after get killed off.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:I wouldn't put it ahead of the Sopranos, but it is very good.

I don't have HBO so I haven't seen Sopranos, but I hear its great... maybe I shoudl change that to NETWORK TV...

Earwicker wrote:However I do think they are making it up as they go along. If they weren't new characters wouldn't just appear without any explanation and no reaction from any one of the principle roles then shortly after get killed off.

Well...it *is* possible to have an overall outline to how everything relates and what's going on, but leave room to make up some of the details as they go along. You've gotta leave yourself breathing room for when two of your stars get busted for drunk driving so you can kill them off the show. That's what i'm hoping is the case.

Leaving it unrsolved would be very Quantum Leap. I really loved how that show ended on a downer with the whole "Sam never managed to leap home" thing.

DrAwkward wrote:Me, i'm just praying that they really know what's going on, and they're just not making the shit up as they go along, like the X-Files.

I read an interview, or tidbits of one, in Men's Health, I think. Anyway, it was with the producers/creators and they said essentially that they've already gotten all the characters sketched out--even the ones we've yet to see--this whole Hanso business (notice all the Star Wars references?] and all the intertwining stories do have explanations, origins, ends, etc. How soon they spill it all out depends on the duration of the show. Of course, networks have been known cancel shows without prior warning. If it can happen to Ed Sullivan, it can happen to Lost.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:(notice all the Star Wars references?

My favorite moment of the Season 1 finale was a moment between Michael and Jin as they finished their raft. In a line of dialogue lifted directly from Empire Strikes Back when Han and Chewie get the Falcon ready for takeoff, Michael yells at Jin, "This one goes here, that one goes there!" I laughed uproariously and was called out by my gf and our friend as way geekier than they because i caught the reference and they didn't.

Seems that Michael's transformed into Lando judging by the final look on his face in last night's episode, though...

My ex-roommate loves this show. I used to be driving to work when it came on so he'd record episodes of me, tell me all about how awesomely ridiculous the show was and that I'd love it if I just saw some of it, and then show me the first 15-20 minutes of the episodes he'd recorded before realizing "this isn't really a good one to start on."

After repeating this exercise 4-5 times I concluded that a) the show either wasn't all that good, or I had missed the genius of it by not being in from episode 1, and b) my ex-roommate was an even bigger stoner than I was.

Based on this ultimately meaningless anecdote, I vote crap to this Lost show. Lost crap.

stupid, addictive, frustrating. n/c

the season finale put me in a bad mood.