Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

but but but whut about the black & white stones?

i know i know and what about how some characters were sometimes 'good' and other characters were sometimes 'bad'

The whispers are a prime example of a mystery we don't need the answer to, it should be perfectly obvious by now they're a noise from whenever Smokey appears. That's all you need.

no you are right some of the stuff in S6 has certainly been there thematically the whole time

but i think maybe they have overestimated how much (normal) ppl liked that stuff? xp

i mean probably on the serious lost boards there is already someone with a picture-signature of jin and sun's reunion in the last ep

I think the Locke-leader loop plot, which played out over 3 seasons at least, was pretty well planned out.

The recent exchanges on this thread have really reminded me of me on the Who threads in the Rusty era with everyone else going "it doesn't need to make sense or be explained, just enjoy it".

interesting comparison because Lost doesn't have the "excuse" of having to be understandable by kids. but I'm enjoying DW more these days tbh.

In fairness, Doctor Who really doesn't have to be explained.

Re: the Locke long con being really well worked out, I wonder if Jacob and the Smokemonster were originally intended to be one and the same thing, around the time they first started showing the cabin, and they decided to go with the two characters much later.

Matt...what? The whispers are smokey?

Not only is that not "obvious" it's not even the explanation they gave! Smokey has that clicking noise. The whispers happened at all these random times...

the whispers are more like dead souls

As for the plot my guess us they had this huge pile of sporadically made up bullshit and rightly figured smoke monster was the thing people were most interested in. I like the Jacob/mib stuff I just think they've been lazy...

xp freelancing dead souls with great knowledge of what's happening on the island it appears

you did get both together at times tho. think they confused themselves on this but n/m don't really care anymore just want to know more about MIB really.

the fuckin whispers didnt need a dam explanation but they ESPECIALLY didnt need the dam explanation we got.

The plane that dropped the food is actually from 1977, dropping food through a wormhole it knows nothing about that actually leads to 2004. There. Explained.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

The Dhamra food drops-- it's not really that big a mystery, right? The Dharma folk on the island were purged, but there were still others in Ann Arbor. They left Radzinsky and Kelvin there to keep pushing the button and sent food drops to keep them alive.

― President Keyes, Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

OK I can accept either of these two explanations, so that's cool.

President Keyes' argument makes sense really.

Executives producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse revealed on the the March 11, 2010 podcast that they intend to reveal the origin of the supply drop, although that might happen not on the show itself.

but yeah what is there to reveal really

Lapides is kept around so that there's the possibility of them flying the Ajira plane off the island, I would think.

also didn't Ilana specifically refer to him as a candidate earlier this season?

She said he might be one. But then she seemed to know the names of the actual candidates. Though she said there were 6. I wonder if she was including Locke.

Dharma drops is something I'd rather they not answer since they'll probably come up with something dumb and illogical due to lack of interest.

Also, they killed off every character who cared about understanding anything--Daniel, Locke, Charlotte--and left a bunch of pawns behind.

Yeah I think this is what pisses me off the most.
Maybe if it was some artfully crafted character drama with dialogue that ~makes you think~ I might forgive the mystery stuff being pushed to the sidelines but truth is all that stuff is excrutiatingly bad, the mystery stuff is all they have going and as ppl have said (and me upthread) we still don't know what we're rooting for.

This series is making me forget some of the awesome stuff, I really think the Locke story was a great example of what they ~could~ do.

THIS SHOW IS GONNA KILL US ALL LIKE AN AIRBORNE FUNGUS!

Kind of can't wait for it to be over so that some obsessive can make an entire series re-edit which deletes all flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash-sidewayses.

we still don't know what we're rooting for

This kind of sums up why I've been feeling impartial about this season - every couple of episodes someone needs to DO SOMETHING and sets off to a random location from a previous season where the hang out with a small group of followers until someone else needs to DO SOMETHING ELSE and go to another location with slightly different group of followers, possibly with some bloodshed en route. Then someone gets mad at the group they're in and shifts over to the other group for a while and so on. I didn't get hooked on this show for the cliquey group dynamics.

i am transferring all of my obsessions w/ this show over to fringe which is unfortunately even less likely to end in a satisfying manner

^^^have been contemplating such a sublimation myself, is it at least awesome while you are watching it?

yeah, first season was kind of rough but its really hit its groove this season--plus the 'non-mythology' episodes are totally watchable

last episode of FRINGE was easily better than anything we've seen on LOST this season

grady just texted me to say that hes DJing the L O S T wrap party tomorrow night

FUCK THAT GUY

haha

He should just play "You All Everybody" over and over all night.

that and whatever was on hurley's headphones before the batteries went

and selections from the OST

Tell him to play Moneen, they've written songs about Lost. Heh.

i met a guy in a LOST band. i think i linked their myspace on this page. pretty funny. if you are into harry potter bands and stuff like that.

x-post
Maybe a little Geronimo Jackson.

xpost is that the one that plays at Knitting Factory Brooklyn every tuesday night?

Recommendation -- drop the Rockford Files theme music into the middle of something.

Would it be too cheesy to use the LOST flashback-whoosh.mp3 or panning-trombone.mp3 to segue in the set?

Recommendation -- drop the Rockford Files theme music into the middle of something.

This pretty much applies to any DJ set. In the top 5 tv themes ever imo.

Play the Heroes theme music (if it has any.)

Music for the Heroes series is by Wendy & Lisa (ex-Prince) actually.

Lindelof: It’s like when you spend time with a 3-year-old, you quickly find out that one question just begets another — there’s a “why” in the wake of every “why” — and the only way to end the conversation is to say, “Oh look, a Chuck E. Cheese!” The show is doing its best to say, “Oh look, Chuck E. Cheese!” For example, we’ve now given the viewers as much as we’re willing to say about the numbers, and we’re moving on.

this is some straight-up Billy Corgan-caliber audience condescension. I was pretty much ready to let certain pet mysteries slide at this point & just get comfortable for the coming spectacle, but srsly fuck these dudes. I will still watch, but now w/ EXTREME PREDJUDICE

er.. prejudice

Starting to wonder if the finale will explain the Adam & Eve skeletons as promised in all those interviews a few years back as "proof we knew what we were doing all along".

didn't they do some kind of teaser/joke reference to them earlier in the season? can't remember now.