Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

omg did Johnny Fever write for the show.

Shame on you.

I WISH. MiB would've been redeemed rather than pushed off a cliff to a lame death.

I think I just realized that Desmond's real purpose in s6 was to get the viewer to let go and realize that nothing mattered. "It's just a show, brotha. Don't bother looking for sense and resolution where there's none to be found. Let go."

And then the last episode was him hitting us with his car.

lol

HA!!!

it really is mind-boggling how positive the user ratings are for the episode on the avclub, darkufo, etc.

Yeah, but if you think about the fact that there were Lost message boards that earnestly discussed who Kate would choose, rather than making bird-flinging jokez, you might understand the superfan reactions.

at this point i am genuinely wondering about the horse

was it smokey?

do you think Island Magic allows hurley to talk to animals, if so he could go find that bird and personally ask it why it said his name.

I'm kind of annoyed that this Bad Robot dude is saying that MIB was behind the Dharma purge. I liked it much better when I thought that Jacob was going Mother on these drilling hippies.

I WISH. MiB would've been redeemed rather than pushed off a cliff to a lame death.

Not that I'm apologizing for the choice, but it's meant to mirror/reference/whatever Locke getting pushed out of the window by his dad, eh?

I still wonder about the magic box.

That was one of my favorite bits that went nowhere

it really is mind-boggling how positive the user ratings are for the episode on the avclub, darkufo, etc.

Yeah? I was thinking that I was pleased that so many people seemed to be unsatisfied with, or at least had serious reservations about the finale (NYT, Slate, Sepinwall, etc.)

The Slate TV club, e.g., featured three commentators, two of whom came into Season 6 feeling sort of skeptical about the direction the show was taking and the third who was a pretty big apologist. After the finale, however, the apologist was just like, "Yeah, that pretty much sucked."

when we came into view of the rpg save point, it was blatantly much less bright than when we first saw it in the Jacob/MiB origin story.

ya know I noticed this as well, even said something at the time.

yeah jaymc, the overall negative chatter about the episode is exactly why i'm amazed that avclub readers give it a B+ on average and the darkufo ratings break down as:

Awesome 63.4% (29,951 votes)
Great 12.6% (5,959 votes)
OK 10.2% (4,828 votes)
Poor 5.5% (2,586 votes)
Awful 8.2% (3,889 votes)

the comments on the post i wrote were like 2:1 positive about the dumb thing. but i got an email that said 'GURL YES'

Maybe people are still in denial. Or haven't stopped to really think about it yet. I think the episode offers a lot of immediate pleasures, and so for some people they may have to step back a bit to realize how shitty certain parts of it were. Me, I'm not really incensed at the finale itself, but I think the finale is absolutely endemic of the squandered potential of this season (and maybe the last couple).

It's too bad Juliet became popular enough that Elizabeth Mitchell spun off into V. Keeping her around for S6 would've facilitated an ending in which the whole show was just something Sawyer was thinking about while the two of them were having sex.

BTW I guess Jack being married to and producing a child with Juliet wasn't quite enough of a memory jogger to get him to heaven.

Yeah, the real loser in all this is David Shepard, who seemed like a really nice kid, but unfortunately WAS NEVER EVEN REAL.

Uncanny how much that kid looked like him

^ yeah I was thinking that.
The golden light stuff incensed me at the time but I've made my peace with it a bit now, I just lump it with lol-finale stuff. Yeah they didn't need to put it all the way through s6 but tbf s6 was shitty anyway. It's s6 as a whole that's really annoyed me, mainly for the blatant lack of consistency in the one storyline that was meant to be the whole origin of the whole damn island.

Would try out Fringe but stupid Hulu only has season 2.

lol at this. JJ Abrams' show turned out to be a piece of shit, I'm gonna go watch his other show now instead...

I stopped halfway through S1 of Fringe, but apparently it got completely retooled in the interim and is now essentially a different show. I'm curious, but still not compelled to revisit.

spock is on it.

s2 of fringe was a lot better than s1--one of my favorite shows this year

but i got an email that said 'GURL YES'

dude if you were single (you're not, rite?) this would be the point at which I tell you DAMN BUOY YOU SHOULD HIT DAT

i think i was being addressed as 'gurl' in that instance

BTW I guess Jack being married to and producing a child with Juliet wasn't quite enough of a memory jogger to get him to heaven.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:40 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

hahaha those fuckers

honestly wonder if they'd even figured out what the 'alt time line' was at the start of this season

kate and sawyer justifiably a bit pissed off that in the world they created for themselves where they hang around to be reunited for eternity with their true loves jack and juliet were banging

honestly wonder if they'd even figured out what the 'alt time line' was at the start of this season

^^ this

s2 of fringe was a lot better than s1--one of my favorite shows this year

― max, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:57 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

tell me more

do i need to watch s1 first?

here's a "season 1 playlist" i found on another forum ... lays out the mytharc of the show without too many "monster of the week" type episodes in there

Pilot s01e01
The Arrival s01e04
The Equation s01e108
Safe s01e10
Bound s01e11
Ability s01e14
Bad Dreams s01e17
The Road Not Taken s01e19
There's More Than One of Everything s01e20

cool

fringe doesn't take itself too seriously and some of the ideas are really imaginative if the 'science' is srsly dumb. i wouldn't necessarily recommend it to those pissed off after the lost finale.

s2 of fringe was a lot better than s1--one of my favorite shows this year

Which means (since it's a JJ Abrams joint) that it should start sucking mid-way through the next season. When did Alias and Felicity go of the rails in their respective series runs?

i never got to the end of 'alias'. it wasn't bad, but wasn't that compelling either. there was some big mystery but it wasn't that important. much lighter show than 'lost'.

When did Alias and Felicity go of the rails in their respective series runs?

Didn't watch Felicity, but Alias went off the rails at the beginning of S3. The first two seasons are still my idea of perfect television.

alias got all mystical rambaldi and shit... that was its downfall. shoulda just been a spy show.

it was way campy

i kind of liked the chutzpah of doing, like, VIENNA, TAIPEI, MOSCOW, stock footage, three times each ep

it was very lost in the way it set up these intriguing mysteries and totally failed to follow through with anything interesting

like the season that started 2 years in the future and she'd lost her memory

like 3 episodes later it was back to business as usual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYp0J5aT_M

I only watched the first season of Felicity, but a read a description of its final season that involved time travel and magic. It makes me fearful of Fringe's future seasons.

tell me more

do i need to watch s1 first?

― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 8:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

um, its definitely lighter than lost, and i dont care too much about the central mystery(s), which are not really that mysterious anyway. & one reason i like it is that i came back to it w/ pretty low expectations.

but its a very good x-files rip, excellent chemistry between the three leads, and the guy who plays walter is great. good mix of monster-of-the-week and larger-arc episodes (so nice to have a show where episodes that don't tie into the big picture are a drag). way more sci-fi than lost. i dont really ever watch it glued to the set on thursdays the way i did with lost but i catch it every week and its always enjoyable.

oh, and, i dont think you really need to watch s1 if you read a summary, or even just go w/ the short playlist up there--i watched the first half of s1 and then skipped the second half and jumped in to s2, and it didnt matter, though i wish id watched the finale of s1 cause it had one of those trademark jj abrams gamechanger finale moments

but its a very good x-files rip, excellent chemistry between the three leads, and the guy who plays walter is great. good mix of monster-of-the-week and larger-arc episodes (so nice to have a show where episodes that don't tie into the big picture are a drag). way more sci-fi than lost. i dont really ever watch it glued to the set on thursdays the way i did with lost but i catch it every week and its always enjoyable.

― max, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:10 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

are a drag or aren't a drag?