return of the L O S T thread
Secret_Chimp
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So... theories on what the hell is going on??The last two episodes were awesome, encouraging after a couple of really weak ones. Sawyer-as-cop, that was cool. And the last episode with weird ass Richard/Ricardus (what's with the eye shadow??).. it answered a lot of questions but raised some big ones too. The island is seeming like purgatory more and more now, even though the producers denied that way back when. It seems more and more like the people on the island are lost souls who can make it back to the real world only by some sort of redemption. Who's good and who's bad? Is Jacob really supposed to represent 'good'? All of a sudden the dude in black isn't necessarily seeming so bad..Oh and now that we know that the man-in-black/smoke monster is using Locke's body.. who's body was he using before? And did you catch how the man in black said "it's nice to see you out of those chains" to Ricardus, the same thing that 'Locke' said to Richard when he came out of the statue? Richard bugged out over that.The show definitely ain't gonna wrap everything up in the 7 remaining episodes .. the whole time traveling things doesn't make any sense to me any more (any bets on how soon Faraday is going to drop out of the sky and confuse things even more?), nor does the bizarro world we've been seeing this season. And the whole Dharma thing, who knows. Maybe bizarro world represents what the world would be like with the island no longer in existence, like if it got blown up in that nuclear explosion.. or if the dude in black was able to escape the island..I can't stop thinking about this shit, it's terrible.
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side note...I was reading Entertainment Weekly or some magazine like it and they were talking about the actor who plays Richard. They said that he does not wear eyeliner. That is how that dudes eyes are in real life. Permanent glam.
cool, dude.
Cool? I just thought the show was REALLY boring. Should I try to watch it again? Does it get a lot better after the first season? I have never understood why U.S. major network TV shows are so long to begin with. 20+ hour long episodes for one season? Then if the show has good ratings they keep writing more and more episodes. Sometimes this goes on for years and the stories get very tired. Why are there not more shows on U.S. TV that are based on books with a set time frame? A beginning, middle and end.
yes, lost is really good. But its too late for you. Sorry. That sucks. I wouldn't even try to catch up now really. Its kind of like a pulp radio drama or something. The whole thrill is in what happens episode to episode.
Thats the way this sort of thing works. Its the nature of the medium, and Lost is REALLY good at it!.
I still love the show, and I'm fairly okay with the fact that there will be plenty of loose ends when its over. I don't really believe that its absolutely necessary to have some grand master all encompassing vision just to keep people engaged.
but then, i don't really frequent the LOST conspiracy boards all that often. They aren't dead though, that part was made clear! The Islands exists to hold back some super evil shit from the world. That evil is encompassed by the man in black. Its very basic, but still cool way to wrap it all up. Im gonna be watching it every week.
The ONE thing that REALLY bugs me, is when they do that end of an episode slow motion reunion shot on the beach with the cheesy happy music and they all hug eachother. Its SOOO overdone and I've seen it SOO many times.
Again, i can forgive that though. Lost rules.
I am currently obsessed with Dexter season 4 though so.... back to that!
That's a good way of putting it. It's kind of like Twin Peaks. I loved that show but I think I probably would have killed myself had I tried to watch the entire show back to back. Every week me and big group of people have a giant pot luck and watch the show on a giant big screen and try to recap what the hell is going on and make predictions. We all recognize the ridiculousness of it all, but that's part of what's fun about it I guess.
supposedly the episode airing in two weeks will explain the two timelines, Desmond is coming back.
People who watch the show care... a lot... so deal
Why all the blah blah blah? Jesus.
For real though - if you aren't into the show based on the first half of the first season, you're not going to get into it ever. And that's fine. I have friends who tried to watch the first half of "The Sopranos" and couldn't hang and I'm thinking, well, while the show does take some time to get into, I just don't think it's worth urging anyone to have to sit through an entire season of anything just to see if they'll like it.
Anyways, in regards to this week's show...I'm biased since I know one of the two writers who worked on it (our daughters were in pre-school together) but I thought it was really solid, especially after two rather lackluster episodes before it.
I actually interviewed her, along with Damon and Carlton (the two lead writers) and that was really interesting in terms of talking to them about the casting process for characters like Sun, Jin, Miles, Sayid, etc. This shouldn't be a surprise but yeah, there was no masterful, meta-arc set-up at the very beginning. To an extent, the writers do make up things as they go along but there are some general principles guiding the direction of the storytelling.
I did, however, end up watching a few eps from this season, and did a lot of laughing out loud because of how far gone the whole thing had gotten. BUT, last weeks was OK and this past Tuesday's was definitely dope -- it's so nice to ACTUALLY have some questions answered. So I'm riding again.
Amazing, after the pain and suffering it's caused me, I too have found myself back on the island.
Ignore the troll moves.
I know this maikes me naive and idealistic but that pisses me off. I feel cheated. I can't really expect there to be a coherent explanation for everything now...not that it matters much now anyway because after 4 years or so now I've forgotten probably 75% of my questions/loose ends.
Best show on tv to me. ............but last week did suck lol.
I don't see how you can say this. They still haven't revealed what Widmore's motivations are, so it's impossible to say why he was after Ben. As of last weeks episode, it seems that he's in opposition to Man In Black/Smoke Monster/Locke getting ready to have a Red Harvest style smackdown. Since Ben was being manipulated (presumably by Smokey) into eventually killing Jacob, perhaps attempting to capture Ben was an attempt to preserve Jacob. We just don't know, we have not been given all of the information required to understand what we are seeing. Let them tell the story. Or don't, there's plenty of shows out there that reset to square zero every week and end with all mysteries solved in one hour?pretty much all of them except the shows I like.
I think this season has been more entertaining than season five, which really felt like a bunch of prolog to the Incident. And now we're being forced to see the aftermath without knowing exactly what we're being shown, but I feel like I'm getting enough tidbits to make it feel like real progression. Plus, Terry O'Quinn as Smokey is pretty entertaining.
I'll be happy if the ending is something that allows me to go back and re-watch the show and enjoy it on a different level, but I don't expect every mystery to be solved.
Dude, I too am obsessed with Dexter, and I'm only on season 2. Netflix streaming is f'in amazing!
Oh, and Lost has become way more enjoyable for me since I stopped reading through those theory message boards. Everyone starts reading into every little thing. Just enjoy that shit!
Understood. On that note, in the interim, PLEASE give us an update as to what's currently happening with K-Rino and Z-Ro.
My prediction is that the power-mad zillionaire Whidmore, who lived on the island way back when, realized while on the island that Richard was immortal, and wanted that shit for himself. Then, after getting kicked off the island by Ben, he realized through time traveling (which he jacked from his son Farraday) that Ben ultimately would kill Jacob, the only person who could make immortality a reality. That would explain why he would be after Ben. It would also explain why he must go back to the island and kill the smoke monster/Locke, who later tricked Ben into killing Jacob.
That's my confounded, contrived and slightly drunk 3am explanation. It's probably something completely different (if anything at all) but I enjoy trying to come up with explanations for this crazy shit.
I hadn't considered Widmore as a time traveler, that's an interesting theory. It would certainly explain how he amassed such a vast fortune, Biff from Back to the Future Part 2 style.
A valid point, and one I hadn't considered. I'm just at the point now where I'm wondering how much of it is going to turn out to be padding, something the show has always suffered from to some extent (cf. the frequent recapping), and how much is the real meat. O-Dub hinted earlier that a fair bit of winging-it has gone on as regards the storyline, and whilst I'm not expecting every question to be answered either, I'll be mightily pissed off if they leave too much hanging.
I hear you about shows that aim for a pat conclusion every week, but if I was a big fan of that neat-and-tidy shit (and I'm not), I'd hardly have stuck with something like Lost for the duration.
My apologies for putting words in your mouth, so to speak. Although it has had more than a few moments where you've wondered how in hell they're going to write their way out of this one...
Your sarcasm is of course justified because posting about music on a music message board is obviously foul upon foul.
Soulstrut passed being "just" a music message board years ago.
You posting in here serves no productive purpose and is justifiably comparable to similar posts by others who don't share your taste in music. It's rather lame when they do it. It's lame when you do it too.
When do I ever post about K-Rino?