Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

I'll take sub-par Spielberg any day.

sorry kenan, forgot this was the internet.

apologism is how i deal

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If Daniel Faraday and Drive Shaft had started a rendition of Bright Eyes it would have redeemed the whole thing.

sorry kenan, forgot this was the internet.

heh. I remembered.

did Claire go "crazy" because she got fat?

What the fuck? Fat? I don't get it.

TV fat, i.e., larger than a size 1.

End of this show = the new
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she did look fat

wat

Oh, fuck off.

Seriously.

everyone looks fat to cutty

Here's tons o' fun three weeks ago:

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Emile de Ravin is about 8 million times sexier than the character she plays. That said I think Claire was two-dimensionalised worse than anyone in the last series, except possibly Sun.

she looks like an olson twin in that pic

Sun's derail from badass business woman to Husband Seeking Robot was tragic. All about the characters my ass.

I saw her more as a Daughter Abandoning Robot

this ending=AI, so that means in about 9 years it will be widely hailed as a masterpiece right?

Did that happen with AI?

most definitely

how many pointless hours of limbo sun and jin did i have to watch this season. sooooooo boring. they even make getting shot boring.

sun and jin were shit this season, claire could have been interesting but they bottled it, and sayid was all over the map as well.

A.I. sucked ass

Claire really should've been abandoned again when they went for the plane because

a) funny
b) awkwardness of her living on the island with Ben, Hurley and weird animal skiletun - also funny

Plus they would have saved fuel by grounding her fat ass.

Did we ever find out exactly what happened with Sayid's death and revival on the island? He was kind of a zombie for a while. What was that about? What was the 'sickness' that Dogen was concerned about?

the same sickness that Rousseau had to deal with amongst her shipmates, but yeah never really explained properly iirc.

never explained properly? how about not at all. what were those injections desmond was taking when he lived in the hatch?

who exactly were those people ben had sayid kill when they were off island

STOPASKINGQUESTIONSITISOVER

I was wrong in one of my posts upthread-- apparently there is some synth in Giacchino's Lost scores here and there, used sparingly. Mea culpa.

The more I think about this show, the worse it seems. I don't know if I've ever been angry at a TV show before!

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never explained properly? how about not at all. what were those injections desmond was taking when he lived in the hatch?

― cutty, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 5:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

they had built up enough mysteries by the time they announced an end date, but instead of boringly paying off all the set-ups, they just gave us new ones, not all of which (in purgatory-type place the island is sunk) made sense

"The writers were geniuses at manipulation, but couldn't plot their way out of a wet paper bag. And didn't."

In their defense I don't think anyone could have plotted their way out of the mess they set up. Is David Lynch superior for never having tried?

They swept half the series under the rug with "oh, Dharma didn't really understand anything about this place anyway." If they were just more variables in this crazy cosmic game, then why give us so much material to care about?

not angry about this, just disappointed at how things panned out

who exactly were those people ben had sayid kill when they were off island

i assumed they were people who had ignored ben's facebook friend requests

The whole show was a metaphor for social media?

In their defense I don't think anyone could have plotted their way out of the mess they set up. Is David Lynch superior for never having tried?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:59 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

... yes?

who exactly were those people ben had sayid kill when they were off island

widmore peeps weren't they?

they had built up enough mysteries by the time they announced an end date, but instead of boringly paying off all the set-ups, they just gave us new ones, not all of which (in purgatory-type place the island is sunk) made sense

I can forgive stuff like never explaining "the sickness" or building things up like "Walt is special" but never going anywhere with it

it's introducing brand new shit in s6 and never explaining it that's like .... why. so annoying!

I mean luckily I realized sometime around s3 or 4 that all the coincidences built into the show were just stuff for obsessive fans to notice and would never add up to anything. but at the beginning it seemed like the show was going to be both -- that it would make sense as an emotional / character-driven story for the casual viewer but that there was a second layer of crazy obsessive puzzles that made at least a little bit of sense and were logically consistent (key concept) when you picked em apart. At some point they pretty much jettisoned that and just told the characters' not-very-coherent story, and the puzzle aspect was just a bunch of random references to old episodes thrown around with no rhyme or reason plus a bunch of new shit that made no sense.

OK I can deal with the suckiness of the ending now if someone can clue me into some decent genre TV to draw my attnetion to now.

nothing about the vintage WWII pins worn by the Oceanic staff

I have no memory of this whatsoever!

nothing about Cindy or the kids

I assumed they all got massacred by the Smoke Monster during the "come with me or I'll kill you all" thing at the temple?

they voluntarily left with smokey so he had no reason to smite them.

killed in widmore's mortar attack i guess

the implication is that they got blown up by Widmore's missile. but they probably survived and helped bathe Hurley for the next 40 years.

Christian's speech at the end kept reminding me of something, and then I realized it was this Deep Thought by Jack Handey:

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.

at least he didn't say "after all, no man is an island"

what's with people calling the ending "quasi-religious"...

there was no "quasi" about it

a guy named christian shepherd led them all to heaven. jack died jesus-style and was reborn.

the last scene is in a church.

it was STRAIGHT-UP religious.

yeah but there was a yin-yang symbol in the window