Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

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.

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twice
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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.'

god what a fucking moron

I'll do it if he's paying!

jj abrams...remember how you spent half of the last season in a useless temple full of useless characters that contributed nothing to the plot or emotional resonance? die in all the fires that ever were.

"how should it have ended?" idk start by changing like 2/5ths of what came before.

"screw you guys, i'd like to see you come up with something better than pulling a glowy plug out of a thing"

^lol

There are probably a thousand possible endings I would enjoy more than "everyone on the island goes to non-denominational heaven"

jj abrams...remember how you spent half of the last season in a useless temple full of useless characters that contributed nothing to the plot or emotional resonance? die in all the fires that ever were.

― a dry, airless meringue (reddening), Wednesday, August 3, 2011 5:37 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

he might not remember that, seemed like his involvement was very minimal by the end, i wonder if he was even like reading the scripts for they filmed them and signed off with his approval or anything

otm, double-j moved on years before

in that quote, at least, he doesn't seem to be disputing that it sucked

he's kinda going "heckuva job, brownie" to cuse and lindelof imo

ha, otm

loool so otm

this morning im working myself up in a lather about the finale for no reason

But there was a dog

fuck this show

i wonder how many people own just the first 5 seasons on DVD and will never complete the collection like my fam

---> this guy

fuck this show

― tpp, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:38 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

Still feel thankful that I never even started with this show.

When it was good, it was SO good. Plus the mystery aspect made my friends & I come together for weekly Lost Parties to eat yummy food, watch the show, discuss. We're still looking for another show all of us can get on board with.

Two and a Half Men, in which you can discuss the mystery of its very existence.

:*(

this morning im working myself up in a lather about the finale for no reason

I prolly do this about once a month on average. The experience isn't terribly dissimilar to a long-term relationship that's going really well for a long time and then quickly turfs out for no immediately discernible reason. There's a lot of residual bitterness and tarnished memories and burning stuff in your backyard.

entertaining pseudo-science old-timey dharma videos > mysterious shit from early season that may or may not have a pseudo-science explanation (but later was hand-waved away as mystical) > human character drama > everything else about the show

In retrospect, I should've started getting super wary when the showrunners were talking up how character driven the show was when, really, the characters were by far the least compelling facet of the show.

No kidding! The beginning was kind of stock characters thrown on to an island who happen across some interesting characters (Desmond, Ben, etc.) and how they reacted to them. Once it became completely about how the stock characters were learning and evolving it got boring.

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anyone who watched enough of this to care about the finale deserves what they got, tbh

yeah i mean my hopes had been deflated so steadily over the course of the whole season that i don't know if i had any expectations left to disappoint by the time the finale came around, just a kind of bemused disbelief at exactly how steep the falloff was

it was more disappointing than anyone could have imagined. it was so unbelievably lazy and stupid. i still hate "darlton" and their smug fucking faces laughing off how anyone expected them to even bother to make it good.

The show intrigued me most in Season 2 when it was about the suspicious and nefarious Others. The strange interest in Walt and the fertility experiments. The black-light map in the hatch. A cult engaged in covert activities. But over time it became apparent that this was as vaguely sketched in the writers' room as it is in this post.

so are we talking about the actual finale or the episode beforehand with her from the west wing, because that one was so ridiculously bad i can't imagine that the actual finale somehow bothered people that much more

yeah the penultimate episode definitely dug the ditch so deep that the finale couldn't go lower (though it tried).

it succeeded! the "heaven" reveal. ffs. all that "it's a place where you meet those you love" nonsense.

The BSG finale was the kind of bad that still allows me to look back on earlier seasons with fondness and occasional love. The Lost finale/final season actually retroactively ruined the entire run of the show, just fkin scorched it flat.

Still like the music tho.

lg i thought the unbelievable bathos of the whole 'well, at the time when we said they weren't in purgatory, we were telling the truth then' bit was really entertaining

has anyone broken silence on what went on inside the writer's room yet

finale was pretty dumb but it wasn't mind-numbing torture like the alison janney flashback imo

like if i was doing a listicle of the worst hours of series television ever, that would be in the top 5

I can't believe I'm gonna do this . . .

But they weren't in purgatory! Not on the island! The only parts that were in purgatory were the "flash-sideways" in the final season. All the island stuff was real, Jack died there, all those other people got off and lived out their lives, Rose and Bernard stayed behind, etc.