Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

FYI Giacchino's Lost music doesn't use synths, it's all musicians from LA orchestras working from score.

Normally his music for the show is quite good. I think the prob last night was a) music was mixed way too loud and b) unrelentingly elegiac tone was required for like 65% of the run time.

I actually thought his little war theme for when the two groups were approaching each other across a field was pretty sweet...

remember the shark with the dharma logo tattoo - that was cool

wish we could've seen a shark when they went back to the 70s - just hauling it out of the back of a VW van

I actually thought his little war theme for when the two groups were approaching each other across a field was pretty sweet...

yeah sounded v Western (but not exactly Morricone)

FYI Giacchino's Lost music doesn't use synths, it's all musicians from LA orchestras working from score.

really? like a full '70s Queen "there are no synthesizers on this album" deal? i didn't think it was all synth but it definitely had a synthetic tinge to it.

It's the way they mixed it, it made the strings sound way too intense to be acoustic.

Some of the strange sounds he gets are via extended techniques cribbed from post-war avant-garde composers (this kind of thig is v v common among film composers today, not so much TV composers). In the NYer article on the music they talk about the 'superball on a gong' sound and now that I read that I can totally hear it, sounds like an uncanny moan.

I do not think Giacchino is the big standout scorer of the day like Alex Ross seems to (Desplat, Christopher Young and Elfman are all doing more exciting work) but he's not far below those guys and he hasn't been at it as long.

I actually thought his little war theme for when the two groups were approaching each other across a field was pretty sweet...

― Is it far? Is it far? Is it far? (Jon Lewis), den 24 maj 2010 23:21 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thought about that one too. great. though i'm not sure if that was new or the same "marching music" that they used a couple of seasons back...?

anyhow what a great ending

Well, the big Lost party is over, let's all go have a collective puke in the toilet at 2:30 am

xpost yeah i think he has tons of reusable/adaptable leitmotifs in play and that is probly one. I think some soundtrack nerd is actually putting together a musical encyclopedia of all the show's motifs, will post a link if I see it in finished form.

trombone heavy

Yeah he used that gritty trombone swell for almost every commercial break. There is a pretty lol article about that in the NYer article, apparently Abrams got sick of the trombone swell but Giacchino was like 'hire me, hire my trombones'.

backstage $henanigans permeate the plot of LOST

Giacchino also just won the Oscar for "Up" this year. I don't usually notice the scores very much in movies but that one got in my head.

Still haven't listened to that, silly of me as a score nerd, should do so soon.

I would still kind of be interested in seeing a fan edit of the series (pre-Oceanic crash, at least), just to see how much things flow as a chronological narrative.

I'm guessing not well. But oh well.

'a chronological fan edit', that should've read.

to clarify it seems the writers intended the alt as a process which each person had to go thru before heaven, on the basis that something they all wanted to do was to enter the afterlife together. i'm kinda forgiving this because i do think it was necessary for as many of them as feasible to be together at the end.

Nah they'll never get a pass from me on this. They stumbled past it-was-all-a-dream only far enough to land on they-were-all-dead-the-whole-time and that is just shitass godawful writing.

the series beginning with jack eye opening and ending with his eye closing lends more to "it was all jack's dream."

Jackob's Ladder

Lost ranks behind Mr. Belvedere for number of viewers of series finales.

belvedere was straight up genius.

Remember the Belvedere newspaper comic? He was kind of a snooty terrier iirc.

Dozens of people died to protect the set from Land of the Lost, but they all got to go to go to heaven because they remembered the first five seasons at a benefit show in LA. Also, people who do bad stuff are a metaphor for evil.

I rarely post on this thread (or ile in general) but have like many of you been reading this thread for as long as I've been watching LOST. Anyhow for the moment I just feel supremely disappointed. I agree that this was a fairly satisfactory end to S6 and the alt-storyline, but as a series closer it was pretty weak, and anticlimactic in a big way. I was prepared for a big zinger of an ending, a last gotcha in a show committed to gotchas above everything else. Instead it felt like they skipped past the big finale in favor of doing the 10-years-later reunion show. Thinking back, literally none of the stuff that I found so intriguing about the show, especially as it pertained to the first few seasons was addressed at all, indeed it clearly didn't matter.

Anyway whatever. I'm glad it's over.

wesley on belvedere also better and more realistic than anyone on lost. funnier too.

when they announced 'here's daniel faraday and driveshaft' i thought i could actually hear my neighbor's say 'please don't make us actually listen to this'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKKMB9vRkIg

my perfectly perfect last five minutes? after they defeat the MIB in the alt/sideways world, everyone - everyone who didn't die during the show - goes back to the island for a big party on the beach and hurley and ben and desmond join them. that would have made me very happy. but no dead people allowed.

I'm still boggling that the whole Daniel Prog Show was actually nothing to do with anything, simply a little divertissement at which to bring some more characters together. Like, why come up with something that retarded if it's just window dressing?

I still think they MUST have planned to have some sort of Harmonic Convergence Of Topographical Oceans shit, but then abandoned the idea as the finale got closer.

That is a really good question, re: retarded window dressing.

www.theackattack.net/?p=1991

"E!’s Watch with Kristin gave some answers to some burning questions we had about the finale last night!

. . .

3. We will find out what happened to Walt on the DVD."

Dear Lost Producers:

FUCK YOU.

Love,
Jenny

almost at the end

FUCK CLAIRE

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lost/lost_the_series_finales_burnin.php

Television Without Pity's "Burning Questions left by the Lost finale" is kinda the dumbest thing ever.

I mean Jack is in a pool of water in a room filled with water slides--how the hell could he possibly end up in a rocky river? This will keep me up at night.

the old and young lost writers saying anything now can only make it shitter

"Why was the light so easy to turn on and off?" is a pretty valid question, though.

it wasn't it turned you into smoke and made you angrier unless you were desmond hume

This one, too:

How bad do you have to be to get stuck in island whisper purgatory?
What criteria determined who was able to move on to the sideways afterlife, and who got stuck whispering on the island? We'd seen Michael as one of the whisperers, which presumably explained his absence from the church, but all he'd done was shoot a couple of strangers under duress in order to save his son. Yet ruthless killers like Ben and Sayid were granted the opportunity to move on? Who made up these rules?

Racial disparity in sentencing on the island, too, I guess.

yeah none of it seems to add up

Oh, yeah, good point about the light, conrad. Although Jack didn't turn into smoke. Or did he???? That would explain how he went from the bottom of a light hole to the banks of the rocky river.

Television Without Pity's "Burning Questions left by the Lost finale" is kinda the dumbest thing ever.

Ahahahaha. Seconded.

Come on, this one is also pretty valid:

"How much money did a successful band like Drive Shaft have to get paid in order to agree to be back-up to some weird nobody on piano?"

A couple bucks more than a diaper commercial pays?

"Why was the light so easy to turn on and off?" is a pretty valid question, though.

Wasn't it pretty clear that if you weren't Desmond trying to turn that light off would kill you instantly?

claire seemed equally hate-able on the after show kimmel thing

A couple bucks more than a diaper commercial pays?

Haha okay OKAY.

Then why didn't it kill Jack right away to turn it back on? xxpost

Cause he needed to die in the bamboo. Obviously.