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Lars
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My wife had never seen Lost before, so this past weekend we started a watch through. We're up to episode 8 or so already and she's enjoying it so far.
Anyways, it got me in the mood to talk about Lost again, but I can't really talk to her too much about it without spoiling stuff, so here we are.
The series ended over two and a half years ago, but I imagine there will be plenty to talk about.
Covering somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 episodes a sporting an ensemble cast that reached a surprising total of around 35 characters credited as part of the main cast over it's 6 seasons.
Some people love it, some people hate it, some people still don't understand the ending (even Arkham City's Joker comments on it).
It's also apparently a miracle the show even worked, as this article details with excerpts from Alan Sepinwall's book, The Revolution Was Televised, such as the following:
The creation of Lost defies nearly everything we know about how successful television shows — or great ones — are made. The idea for Lost came not from a writer, but a network executive. The first writer on the project got fired. The replacement creative team had a fraction of the usual time to write, cast, and produce a pilot episode. The executive who had championed the show was himself fired before it ever aired. One of the two creators all but quit the moment the pilot was finished. Nearly every creative decision at the start of the show was made under the assumption that it would never succeed. Everyone believed it was too weird, too dense, too unusual to work. And it may have been. But it worked, anyway.
The show definitely had it's ups and downs, but overall I enjoyed it (even the ending, unlike apparently a lot of others) and only had a few big unanswered questions at the end.
Such as why Sun didn't go back in time with the others on the return flight.
So remember the Jackfaces:
Remember the fan comics (Spoilers).
Remember [insert favorite character(s) here] being awesome?
Remember the Superbowl ad during Season 2?
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About a minute into the show the broadcast abruptly ended and was replaced by a test card and we almost had simultaneous heart attacks until it went back to the show ten seconds later. I *still* think some asshole at Sky One was trolling us...
we have to go back
We have to back
Except for that stupid episode where they killed off the new people who everyone hated, which was in the second half of the season anyway.
Also, Ben is such a superb villain.
please tell me
Steam
The main problem with the first episodes of season 3 was
THE OTHER GUYS ARE GOING AFTER THEM FUCK YEAH SAYID IS SO COOL ALSO THAT IS STONE COLD SUN YES
LOCKE LOST HIS VOICE AND IS GOING ON A CRAZY VISION QUEST YES ALSO I LOVE CHARLIE
SAWYER HAS A BOMB IN HIS HEwhat that is fucking dumb oh it's not even true thanks for wasting our time but HEY IT'S A SECOND ISLAND COOL WONDER WHAT AMAZING SECRETS THE NEXT EPISODE HOLDS
WHOA THERE'S THAT SMOKE MONSTER WAIT Eko's dead what the fuck is this bullshit Eko was supposed to be super important
oh great a Kate episode where we learned she was briefly married to nathan fillion who the fuck cares oh really this is where you're gonna cut it off and make us wait months
I thought the stupid tattoo episode was in those first six but it turns out nope, so that's a comfort.
especially the last season
I was also originally going to link to the Joker talking about the ending, but the only video I could find was a minute and a half long and probably spoiled some stuff from Arkham City so I left it out.
I've been struggling with not spoiling the show for my wife. I really want to tell her that...
Not tell her who those three are of course (click next spoiler to refresh your memory), just to give her that information and see how it effects her enjoyment. I decided against it, though.
Walt doesn't count since the DVD has an extra that shows Ben & Hurley taking him back to the island.
Nope.
The finale was great. People just love playing up the lie that they were dead all along. Also way overstate how many things were not explained. Most (though admittedly, not all) of the things that did not get explicit explanations didn't really need one other than "it's magic". It's the whole midichlorian thing.
It was a case of a mystery being revealed, and the secret behind it being far less interesting than the mystery itself.
This show
I spent god knows how many hours pouring over fan discussions and dissections over its six seasons
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Some of the character arcs are just downright amazing.
And really, most of the unexplained things don't really bug me.
The final season did have some annoying/pointless parts, though.
Also, I'm still amazed at how prevalent the idea that they were dead all along is. A few months ago my dad professed this opinion. I had watched the finale with him back when it originally aired as I always went up to my parents' house to watch Lost since it had started my last year of college.
One of the most grievous examples came from outside the show proper
This of course was never answered.
He used this tease to garner support for his profession and then just didn't follow through.
Kind of a cheap move.
I think this is the only thing that really pissed me off about the show
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I can honestly say that - especially at times when I thought I didn't want to watch the show any more - they made it all worthwhile.
and I never plan to
go me
http://redundancycom.com/lostpoints/
I can not remember if I stopped documenting the lost points due to my own laziness or the fact that there was a definate period where Lord Dave took a break
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It was totally answered
I should dig them up before the various hard drives they're spread across all die.
Lost points will be my great legacy.
A bunch of people crash into an island...but they agonizingly slowly discover that it's not just a regular island. It's a magic land where plot holes go to die.
Nah
I mean it was answered in such a way that they gave you just enough to work with
But given how it was being used as a protest piece by one of the main writers I felt that they should have been more forthcoming with it
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If you find season six, I will put them all up there
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