grangle wrote:stupid, addictive, frustrating. n/c

the season finale put me in a bad mood.

why? is it the pace of the show? I loved it...

i can't put my finger on it. it was just really frustrating.

on the one hand, it's meant to leave everyone hanging.
on the other hand you've got all these loose threads at once:

what's going to happen w/ michael & walt?
ecko & lock?
sawyer, jack and kate?

about the only thing we do know is that charlie and claire are going to get it on.
who cares about claire and her "baybee" anyway? claire just annoys me.

i didn't understand the magnetic thing either.
what exactly happened when the sky turned violet?

i know these were all "cliffhangers", but i wanted a few more answers.
maybe the writers need a few months to figure out where the hell they're going to go with everything.
it was just too many unresolved plot lines.

i guess we'll find out a few things in october.

grangle wrote:i guess we'll find out a few things in october.

Um, which show are we talking about again? WE WILL FIND OUT NOTHING.

exactly. just more unanswered questions!
maybe that's why i'm burning out on it a little, but i'm still addicted.
on a side note:
someone just told me last night that "lost" was inspired by "the prisoner"

Lemuel Gulliver wrote: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.

Yes I think I read this somewhere. they have something like six series worth of story or something.

I'm still more inclined to think there is more made up as going along stuff than backbone stuff in there.

Brilliant though, don't get me wrong.
It must be I've essentially been watching hours of something that always promises but never delivers a climax. (insert amusing Finbar comment here)

DrAwkward wrote: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...

Good call, Mr. Awkward, PhD. I didn't get those. The Lando parallel is priceless. He just needs the guy with the robot thing around his head.

ironyengine wrote: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.

Unfortunately, he got everyone else addicted to it and they moved poker from Wednesday to Thursday.
This show is CRAP.

Re: the season finale - the bright light is, in my opinion, something like the northern lights^10 when Desmond "destroyed the dam." I really hope he's still around.

This show frustrates me as much as it fascinates me. I can't stop watching it or talking about it. Not Crap.

grangle wrote:exactly. just more unanswered questions!
maybe that's why i'm burning out on it a little, but i'm still addicted.
on a side note:
someone just told me last night that "lost" was inspired by "the prisoner"

What, Jack is a monkey?

I hope they totally change the programme's direction half way through
and then dileberately fuck over their audience with the ending just like
McGoohan did all those years ago. That would be great.

Lost is no Prisoner but once they got over "We spent gazillions on a
crashed plane set, shit we'd better use it no matter how stupid it is" it's a
good show.
I just hope they find the balance between not pandering to those with the
afformentioned "short attention span" on both sides of the pond, and not
dragging it out for too long thus ending up dry humping the cash cow.

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