Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

Anytime a TV producer says "don't worry, there is a grand story/theme unifying all of this together, just wait and you will find out eventually"...

the most annoying thing is that after season 3 they went to ABC and asked for a finish date, IN ORDER TO SAVE THEMSELVES THE TROUBLE OF FLOUNDERING once the show got cancelled in season 9 or w/e. as a fan i remember being so stoked at this announcement and feeling assured that they were going to make the most out of every episode now that they knew exactly how many they had left.

then they went and started introducing new characters/arcs when they had like 4 episodes left. so dumb.

i think the thing that pisses me off even more than the awful ending are the ppl on the internet who try to defend it

Surely there are no such creatures.

also... Sayid Jarrah may be the worst written character in the history of TV. Gah....

It's a good thing he ended up in "the afterlife" with the woman he loved, killed for, kept a picture in his wallet for decades... lollllll

well give credit where it's due, that was the actor's idea, wasn't it?

Dunno how Sayid made the final cut for walking into the light when he was still casually killing dudes in purgatory.

yeah, was wondering if he bribed the writers. poor Nadia.

nb that church is like 2 mins away from my house and i get bummed every time i drive by it now

I'm just too bummed to. Fuck you JJ Abrams.

~love is over~

Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they "always envisioned Lost as a show with a beginning, middle, and end," and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would "have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended."[7] Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series-end date "was immensely liberating" and helped the series rediscover its focus.[10] Lindelof noted, "We're no longer stalling."[10] Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated that they "always envisioned Lost as a show with a beginning, middle, and end," and that by announcing when the show would end that viewers would "have the security of knowing that the story will play out as we've intended."[7] Lindelof and Cuse stated that securing the 2010 series-end date "was immensely liberating" and helped the series rediscover its focus.[10] Lindelof noted, "We're no longer stalling."[10]

"We always envisioned that the end of the show would come off tossed-off, corny and sloppy"

The producers planned to wrap up mysteries, such as the reason the Dharma periodic resupply drops continue after the purge,[11] Walt's unusual abilities,[12] and the "bird" from "Exodus Pt. 2" and "Live Together, Die Alone Pt. 1".[13] However, these three mysteries, among others, were left unresolved. Matthew Fox said in an interview that in the final season, the characters of Jack Shephard and John Locke "will come head to head." It was also claimed that a third of the way through the final season, the two timelines would be "solidified into one" and "will be very linear – no more flashbacks, nothing;" however this did not become the case.[14] He also claimed to be the only cast member to know the ending of the series,[15] though Lindelof has clarified that Fox only knew things that were relevant to his character.[16]

During Comic-Con 2009, numerous sixth-season reports were made. Carlton Cuse stated both the time travel and flash-forward seasons were over, and they were moving into something different for the sixth season.[17] Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert to his old self after the loss of Juliet.[17] Cuse and Lindelof stated that the Dharma Initiative would no longer play a large role in the show,[18] but the "Dharma-Michigan connection" would play a significant role in season six. However, this did not happen.[19] Lindelof stated that the producers had a direct hand in the production of the season six promotional poster that was first displayed at Comic-Con, and that everything in it was intentional; he also made a reference to the Abbey Road cover in connection to the poster.[12] Season six was the first and only season of Lost ever to not feature any kind of preview or official promotional material such as sneak peeks and promo pictures for future episodes since the Lost producers considered any single frame from the first episodes to be too revealing. According to Lindelof, "even a single scene from the show would basically tip what it is we're doing this year, and what it is we're doing this year is different than what we've done in other years."[20][21][22] Lindelof has also emphasized that the flashes-sideways are important, stating "People are saying [they] don't need these stories and all we can say is they're absolutely 100 percent necessary to tell the story of Lost, and hopefully by the end of the season it will be more obvious as to why."[23] He also noted that the term "flash-sideways" was deliberately used instead of "alternate reality" because viewers might otherwise "infer that one of them isn't real, or one of them is real and the other is the alternate to being real."[24] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]

When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]
When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13] When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Water."[13]

I am still amazed that neither of these writer dudes has been punched out in a bar somewhere by an outraged fan.

When asked to describe the last three episodes, Lindelof said "Daniel Farraday on piano joined by Drive Shaft performing 'You All Everybody' for eternity."[106]

^^^lol

regrets dept: not having a copy of that ready when i dj'd the season 6 wrap party last spring

"People are saying they don't need these stories and all we can say is they're absolutely 100 percent necessary to tell the story of Lost, and hopefully by the end of the season it will be more obvious as to why."

lol considering the s6 flashes are pointless

but... we get to see ben as a machiavellian public school teacher.

think the thing that pisses me off even more than the awful ending are the ppl on the internet who try to defend it

― max, Thursday, December 30, 2010 1:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Surely there are no such creatures.

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion)

whereas I refer you to this:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=2252175&highlight=obsess+lost&page=102
^page of the thread in which the lost finale has just ended and the nerds have conglomerated for the tearful appraisal

Much like Season 6 itself, I'm going to pretend that doesn't exist.

It just infuriates me that those on the pro-finale side, again and again, defend how the ending worked in the context of the last 4 episodes but seem to be completely oblivious as to how it applies to the other 5 years of the show's existence.

or that it sucked.

I just got to Sun, Jin and Sayid dying on the sub in my rewatch. I should really stop there and pretend the show was abruptly cancelled.

One thing I liked about Season 6... Alexis Rousseau got hawtttt. Right? She's over 18 I hope. eep

Alexandra?

The hottest chick in the whole series dated one of the foogliest (Sayid & Shannon). That whole plot-line confused the hell out of me.

well give credit where it's due, that was the actor's idea, wasn't it?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:24 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, was wondering if he bribed the writers. poor Nadia.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:31 PM (5 hours ago)

happily about to post about LOST at night right now

I have said this upthread but the writing, ideas and execution for the last like five episodes of this show are pretty pretty much on the level of some saturday morning pokemon shit

remember how sayid was evil and had a different accent and the others at the temple tried to get jack to kill him for like four straight episodes?

and then at the end he sacrificed himself i guess? because he wasn't evil anymore. because of...i forget.

anyway fuck lost.

so satisfying to type out: fuck lost.

I guess the ending wasn't met with so much uproar because half the initial viewers and fans left after the 2nd season, prompting me with a lot of "i told you so's" (told me what?) when I vented to them how pissed off I was for denying 8270372702 hours of my life so I could absorb every detail of a show in the hopes that I would be rewarded with a proper answer.

last season was terrible but i think all of the others have redeeming aspects at least.

Why would a person (Shasta) watch this show knowing that it was terrible? That is worse that all you who were in on it while it was live.

i enjoyed the first five seasons and most of the sixth for the most part. my beef is with the way the chose to end the show... simply awful.

so satisfying to type out: fuck lost.

Apparently Cuse is surprised by this thing called an obsessed fanbase?

been watching a lot of Brisco County lately, would totally be up for Cuse doing a new show set in the 1800s

I discussed projects with a variety of producers and executives. They ranged from the sublime — an adaptation of Stephen King’s wonderful novel “Under the Dome,” which for a variety of reasons did not work out — to some decidedly less so: a guy and a ghost are a detective team. Or my favorite: a show about a hot dolphin trainer and her dolphins who work at an aquarium by day but perform secret missions for the government by night. (I know what you’re thinking: No, I don’t know how they get the dolphins back to the aquarium every morning by dawn.)

This guy.

a guy and a ghost are a detective team

Already been done.

http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/07/2/1/9/1176439145069533.jpg

twice
http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/140/70/randall-and-hopkirk-deceased-the-complete-second-series-dvd-2001-14070827.jpeg

Trying to think of a gender reversal version so I could post "Three times. A lady."

fun read, and i laughed at the polar bear clipart

On May 10, 2010 the SyFy Channel announced that it had secured the rights to 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)' and were looking to develop a pilot.

33) Damon Lindelof

Charges: As co-creator of “Lost” and co-writer of the monumentally terrible final episode, Lindelof first conjured a confusing yet entertaining sci-fi epic but then, despite its mechanical sound, the “Smoke Monster” turns out to be the ghost of the father of liberal philosophy, side plots about mental illness and alternate universes go nowhere, paper-thin characters inexplicably commune with the dead, and finally, in a clichéd, Old Testament-inspired supernatural battle, evil is defeated when a big rock dildo is crammed into a shiny hole by a handsome, emotionless doctor. And the whole damn thing—concocted entirely on the fly, with no eye toward resolution—from the plane crash to the time travel was actually just some brightly-lit, stained glass, feel-good, new-age, ecumenical afterlife delirium. Right. Fuck you, Damon Lindelof. Fuck you, for stealing 127 hours of our lives, giving us hope that television needn’t be utterly awful, and then shitting out the most hackneyed, series-diminishing, spiritually pandering, lowest common denominator deus ex machina to ever air on TV. Fuck you. Fuck you with a fake beard.

Aggravating factor: One of his favorite films is Bambi.

Sentence: Something incredibly convoluted, followed by a tremendously unsatisfying ending.

but it wasn't all a dream! only the pointless season 6 flashes.

it's been a year since the finale aired! still pissed off tbh.

http://io9.com/5827048/jj-abrams-wants-your-ideas-for-how-lost-should-have-ended

Because, you see:

For years, I had people praising Lost to death, and now they say: 'I'm so pissed at you for the end of Lost.' I think a lot of people who were upset with the ending, were just upset that it ended. And I've not yet heard the pitch of what the ending should have been. I've just heard: 'That sucked.'