Here we go LOST fans! Five years on and and I hope you're STOKED.
Anticipation thread here for speculative/spoilering: The island wanted LOST SEASON SIX THREAD to happen
This thread is for ongoing viewing pleasure rather than spoiler posting. I think anything broadcast is fair game so us Britishers and Irishers will have to put up with a couple of days of spoilers/download it/wait until it's on Sky before reading. I'll be downloading asap as waiting three or four days is unthinkable.
What will be do when it's all over? ;_;
― inoffensive alterna-poppage (onimo), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
be do?
we do
do be do be do
― inoffensive alterna-poppage (onimo), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Will be setting this to download before I dress or wash tomorrow morning. Btw uk/irelanders might care that the s5 finale is on sky plus anytime all week.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 13:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't know which site to use anymore
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 13:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
WHAT ABOUT PREVIEWS FOR THE NEXT EPISODE ARE THOSE SPOILERS
(just getting it out of the way)
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 13:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Why is it on Friday night in the UK? Is this a one-off or is it Friday every week? Bastards.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ummm this appears to be on surftehchann31 already?!
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
False alarm, recap. Carry on.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
this recap sucks balls.
― phantompenguin, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
when have they not sucked balls?
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
the Season x in 8:15 minutes things are all you need
― inoffensive alterna-poppage (onimo), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
"they changed the past, but these recaps still suck balls..."
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Reduced Shakespeare Company's Lost in 10 minutes
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
When it's over, you'll watch Carnivale.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
After the first opening seconds, "this story begins on Sept. 22, 2004, in Sydney Australia, when 324 people boarded a plane to Los Angeles", I had such an absolutely furious YOU MOTHERFUCKERS moment before I put together that duh it's just a recap. I felt dumb, but whew, kinda.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
haha kinda cracking up at the idea of the season premiere being MORE RECAP like they just rebooted the whole thing and are retelling ti
― sicker than your vag (some dude), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
season 6 premier is actually just going to be season 1 premier backwards
― did you mean: fart blasters? (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
4 hours 3 minutes
^^Would totally watch just to see Frackles tear out Jack's stitches and that one dude get spit out of a jet engine.
xp
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
Abc has sum spoilish footage on. But really its just one more bead of sweat in th wizards sleeve.I made room on th couch if anyone is alone tonite
― danbunny, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
I dunno what I'm gonna do tonite cuz IIIII don't have a TV
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
sup frackles
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
frackles frackles frackles
― Clay, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Psst:http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-abc.html
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I made room on th couch if anyone is alone tonite"
i'll be alone! maria is going to watch at frrenzzzz house tonight. but yer couch is too far away.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Psst:
O hai
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
4 8 15 16 23 42 F R A C K L E S 4 8 15 16 23 42
― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
MERE MINUTES
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
!!!!!!!!!!
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
i am like a child waiting for the santa tbh
I have had my dinner, I am in my jammies, and I am about to have my bottle (of beer).
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
fracklin out
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
don't u wish it were DHARMA BEER?
― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
er dhrama beer
like this one?
(my daughter made me some labels for xmas a couple of years ago)
― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
son of a
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh frackles
― Clay, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
"This is what happens when 324 strangers stop being polite, and start being real.' REAL WORLD ISLAND SEASON ONE
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
"...a strange couple..."
because...they're...Korean...?
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
God, clip shows are the worsestest
yeah guys your countdown was an hour early
― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
son of a...
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
I keep thinking about how annoying Ben's voice is as the narrator for this clip show, but...I can't think of another Lostie that would be less annoying. Let's face it, these cats were not made out for narrating clip shows
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
they should get herzog to do this obv
― Clay, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
cheech
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Whoopi Goldberg
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
circle gets the square
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
tracey morgan
― Clay, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Man, Sun is such a babe
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^ this
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think this would annoy me to the extent that I would find an alternate route.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:57 AM (5 minutes ago)
to further my frustration, my best friend was dating a camera man on the show during the final season and i have a memory burned in to my brain of her going to visit him on his 10:30 PM lunch break the night they shot that scene, basically making it possible for me to ever forget that that horrible episode was ever brought in to this world.
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
should it have ended like the cheers finale instead?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was an alternate timeline where the 6th season was the most amazing thing ever; sadly we are not in it
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've been re-watching the entire series! just saw charlie drown in the looking glass. re-watching was my gf's idea because she's not a vile cesspool of spite. to my surprise i still find it entertaining, albeit in a different way now--how did those assholes do it?
― arby's, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I also get mad about s6 from time to time. love this revive, everybody otm. they could have tied up a lot of the plot elements with just a little effort, but we kept waiting all season for that to happen and then... nothing.
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
the second to last episode is actually the only one i never saw-- i was traveling that week and missed it, then didnt want to have to wait to see the finale after my friends (and i knew it was all going to shit by that point anyway) so i just said fuck it and watched the finale
was it actually that bad??
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
What do you think of Roman matrons?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just now remembered the crumpled up water bottles
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
remember how the writers petulantly refused to have anyone say the name of titus welliver's character in that episode, just because the internet had gone ahead and assumed it was esau? an hour of monotone references to "my brother"/"your brother."
― the minister of RAILWAYS (reddening), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
also remember when alan dale hired a lady who looked like tina fey to go to the island and then she served no purpose and died
― the minister of RAILWAYS (reddening), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
remember how Whitmore was like this huge villain for years and years and then in the end he was unceremoniously shot just to get the character to go away b/c they had no idea what they were doing, really
― Clay, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can we start some sort of class action suit against Darlton? Like to get them to do our laundry and grocery shopping and whatnot until they've worked off all of the hours they stole from us?
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ there were 121 episodes of lost. pretty sure I'm not the only one who has seen all of the (pre-season 6) episodes multiple times.
― Clay, Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Guess they better get those mowers mowin', then.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the statute of limitations is up for bad TV.
― nickn, Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Classical-Fusion Driveshaft Concert
― Deverly (Bangelo), Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish I could you that excuse when if make a major mistake at work "no one has told me how it should've been done", no one could keep a job with that line. Yet this guy is still employable.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not only that, but about to make a prequel for Alien. :/
― polyphonic, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still feel burned whenever I think of this show. I still rewatch the x-files, but I can't imagine rewatching Lost.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
The X-Files finale was pretty bad too but at least it felt like it was part of the show. The end of Lost felt really tacked on and bullshity to me.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty sure I'm not the only one who has seen all of the (pre-season 6) episodes multiple times.
I don't think I've ever rewatched a single episode. If it really had been character-driven in the way that, say, ER was, I would have done. But for me LOST was always about finding out what happened next and finding out the answers to the questions that had been posed in previous episodes. There was almost nothing else. The dialogue was always shit (with some exceptions, like Sawyer's lines, or some of Desmond's stuff, or whatever), I never liked Jack, I always HATED Kate. So when what happened next turned out to be utter, utter bullshit in the worst possible way, I was genuinely angry for about a week. Now I just don't care. At least with Game of Thrones this stuff has already been plotted out somewhere else, so I feel relatively safe getting excited about it. But no episodic television programme will ever fool me like that again.
Let's not forget, too, that some of us in the British Isles were excited enough about the finale to get up at three in the morning so that we could watch it at the same time as it was broadcast in the US. What morons we were.
― trishyb, Thursday, 17 May 2012 09:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I sometimes wonder if there was any possible way that it could have ended well. I'm personally comfortable with extensive ambiguity in the film and TV that I like; I mean, I love the Sopranos finale and was baffled when people were angry. But they couldn't realistically have been ambiguous with the Lost ending - they would have been crucified. I don't think there is any possible way they could have ever been able to wrap it all up and make anyone happy.
It's really down to how much the showrunners stoked the notion that it was all coming down to a single, major reveal that would explain everything. If they had been a lot more "this isn't Shyamalan - we're playing around with a bunch of themes" or something, maybe people wouldn't have been so pissed?
I don't know, I just can't believe there was actually a time when I was like "yeah, they've got this. It's all going to make total sense and I will like it."!
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some years ago two friends of mine started going out in secret, and I asked them if they were together. They said "no". Then, that they were actually together, they said "and you had no idea!" No, what happened was I asked you a direct question and you lied and I took you at your word. This is the same thing.
― trishyb, Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
That should say "then, when they revealed that they were actually together", obviously.
― trishyb, Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
did anyone mention the amazing death of the smoke monster? AAAH I FELL OFF A CLIFF I'M DEAD
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was the unplugging of the RPG save point what killed that beast iirc
― Djibril Citté (onimo), Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
As I recall, as the latter half of the season unraveled, it became increasingly clear that the finale was going to be a big raspberry. By the time it actually hit, there really wasn't any way it could be halfway decent. Even then, I'll grant, it was bad.
― s.clover, Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gah, I had blocked that from my memory until now.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think there is any possible way they could have ever been able to wrap it all up and make anyone happy.
Probably not. But there's lots they could have done to avoid pissing a huge swath of fans off to the point that they're still bitching two years later. Like not constantly assuring us that they knew exactly where things were going and that it would alllllll make sense in the end when the whole show was actually a secret attempt to break a Guiness world record for telling the longest shaggy dog story ever.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Walter Galt, Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:01 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah this is otm. i think the show was actually at its best when they kept a lot of plates spinning and you got to wonder about time travel and all this other weird stuff -- the more they introduced, the less they were ever going to 'resolve' anything with any one episode or even one final season arc. maybe they should've just answered some major questions about the island while introducing more as a way of saying "are you still with us?" and if people were, then it could've been a really long-running thing like Dr. Who or Star Trek where you can do spinoffs with the characters or storylines people respond to the most.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
like this could've been a franchise people would actually care about and have huge conventions for 10 years after it went off the air, but they almost wanted to just milk it as much as possible while it was going and then burn all those bridges to a lucrative long tail and get away.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
should have been surprise-cancelled after season four, then people would still be speculating about how great it could have been
― mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
not that this didn't bug me all the while watching the show for the first time, but man, on re-watching it the mysteries aren't so immediate and the shoddy writing wrt the characters is ~really~ jumping out this time around. hay we're introducing a new character hmmm what's their thing idk how about stupid daddy issues again? it is so truly awful and lazy. how they convinced themselves that this was what the show needed to focus on is a brain scrambler.
― arby's, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
"The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." was so great that it makes me sad that this is Cuse's creative legacy
― some dude, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
always rep for Nash Bridges
― mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I honestly think I could write an entire book about how to construct long-form narrative solely using Lost as an example of how not to do it.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
get right on that, bubba
― mh, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I might!
(I had a previous idea for a book on writing sitcoms that basically boiled down to: DO write like seasons 1-5 of Rosanne, DON'T write like seasons 7-9 of Roseanne. Season 6 was a bit of a gray area, but also was just after she'd had extensive plastic surgery so it was, perhaps, instructive in its own way.)
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's when they added that extra E that things went bad
― some dude, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
EEXACTLY.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
what WAS happening???
― j., Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
this morning im working myself up in a lather about the finale for no reasonI prolly do this about once a month on average
I prolly do this about once a month on average
yeah the penultimate episode definitely dug the ditch so deep that the finale couldn't go lower (though it tried).
fuck this show
This pretty much charts the sequence of thoughts every time LOST passes through my mind.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sometimes I reach this zen place where I'm like "can you believe how much you enjoyed a drama on ABC for awhile? That's almost impossible!"
I started watching in Season 3 and the whole time my friend who I made watch the show was like "this show sucks" and I could never really disagree with him but I still loved it. It's my own fault, basically.
― polyphonic, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, could have been worse. Could have been Heroes.
― trishyb, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel like early enthusiasm for the show was like the bush tax cuts. there was no way anyone could have realistically expected it to end well.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think I ever really expected a satisfying conclusion for this show, but the actual ending was just so much worse than anything I could imagine.
― silverfish, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, remember the good times?
polar bears!
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you introduce a polar bear in act I...
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
not that this didn't bug me all the while watching the show for the first time, but man, on re-watching it the mysteries aren't so immediate and the shoddy writing wrt the characters is ~really~ jumping out this time around.
It really points up how easy it is in serialized storytelling to get your audience with you by alluding to ~secrets and mysteries~, no wonder they binged on that so recklessly. But unless you're counting on getting cancelled, those gd mysteries are gonna come home to fkin roost at some point. Same goes for those BSG fuckers, but they were even more brazen about it, having the very tag line of their show be a straight-faced lie. (tho i still love BSG).
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I guess that's a quality that I don't sweat in mainstream comics because those things run for centuries, and even if the current creative team doesn't resolve anything, someone else will pick up the thread years down the line. Television show runners, however, would probably be wise to work from a slightly different playbook.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink